If you're in London on Thursday 18th December, in the evening, and you'd like to join an evening of celebration and culture, for Shabe Yalda, message me. I've co-curated an event to be hosted at the Cramer Street Gallery. Poetry. Conversations. Get togethers. Should be a fun evening.

Today 29th November 2029, on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, there's a National demonstration for Palestine happening in London. End the Occupation Stop Arming Israel End Apartheid Starting from midday: palestinecampaign.org/events/natio... ❤️💚🤍🖤

Carolers raise their voices in a Home Depot parking lot in song. Their message to stop deportations gets attention, hits hard, & gets support. If you are like me and can’t sing, join me in boycotting Home Depot & let them know helping ICE will cost them money. #WeAintBuyingIt

I finally watched this. The data and the tech are horrifying. @drtanksley.bsky.social’s research and pedagogy, however, are incredible — themselves a reminder of how GREAT great scholarship is. Just so, so good. Truly, everyone pls watch this — to learn about the bad and to be reminded of the good.

Sacha Judd's #ffconf talk was one full of nostalgia for me. Fandom was my first online community 💗 and it's such a rich subculture of the internet. Was fab hearing all about @archiveofourown.org and many other incarnations of online fandom spaces being talked about at a web conf! @ffconf.org

Surya Rose @gearsco.de gave a fab talk: Six to Sixteen: A Child's Programming Journey. Starting with rebuilding a childhood game with his father, then progressing to Minecraft data packs, YouTube channel, podcast and Open Source contributions. #ffconf @ffconf.org I'm gonna share with all kids I know

Jess and Eda shared their experience as learners and educators - sharing their perspective on the impact of AI tools on learning, about the wider industry impact too. A smattering of doom and gloom alongside some hopeful learnings! #ffconf @ffconf.org @jesslynnrose.bsky.social @rivea0.bsky.social

Asim Hussain linked Athenian Democracy to modern AI, disillusionment in politics and politicians, and how we might use AI to form a hive mind for our collective knowledge to improve the ways we organise our societies and make collective decisions. #ffconf @ffconf.org

For those of you who want to know more and attend the upcoming Web Day Out mentioned at #ffconf

Out of context #ffconf

For those at #ffconf, we’re giving a ticket away to next years conference if you sign up to the mailing list. We’ll draw a ticket next week! heypresents.com/mailing-list

Sergés Goma gave a funny and engaging talk about how You're in a Code Cult (and that's OK). We heard how cults function and how all of us are part of one! She pitted us against each other since she wants us angry 😡 not collaborating. 😁 What a fab talk. #ffconf @ffconf.org

Actively mad about how great of a speaker Sergès Goma is on stage at #ffconf Funny, well researched, charming, beautiful slides, flawless delivery. 2026 conferences would be wise to snap her up for keynotes👀

Taking so many notes from Chetan Padia's talk Powerless By Design, the first half was super depressing and the second was empowering. 😍 chetbox.com Use tools that put privacy first, that use open standards & allow users to switch easily, then try them! Share your favourite ones with me! #ffconf

Hellen Ward started the day talking about Bias In Our Products. One reflection that I personally have as someone with an intersection of different minority groups in the UK is that diverse representation is good, but doesn't automatically lead to inclusive products. #ffconf

Excited for @ffconf.org #ffconf is my favourite conf to come back to year on year! Come chat to me during the breaks. Would love to hear about how you're using tech for good!

Good morning #ffconf folks! Looking forward to a full day at @ffconf.org today. If you're coming to the conference on your own, join us in Curio Cafe this morning. Right opposite the venue and sheltered from the refreshing morning rain ;) maps.app.goo.gl/HcisKfw1pWhQ...

The #W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents will be in February 2026, and the call for speakers is open until 27 November 2025. More info here: www.w3.org/2025/10/smar... #voice #agents #agentics #AI

🟣 Speaker Announcement: Stephen Midgley AI Against The Odds: Building Tools for the Forgotten We're incredibly privileged to have Stephen join us to share his personal and incredibly inspiring story about how he used AI to support him and his mother during crisis.

I'm a skeptical user of AI tools. I see they accelerate a lot of existing issues in society, turbo charging them. I don't buy the Silicon Valley hype, but I do see folks around me use tools every day and LLMs being increasingly embedded in enterprise software.

Heya, who else is going to @ffconf.org in Brighton this year? Friday 14th Nov 2025.ffconf.org ffconf is my annual reminder that there are humans out there in the tech industry who actually care about other humans. Always a pleasure to attend. 😍💛 Hope to meet folks there.

Had a fantastic time at #AllDayHey @heypresents.com in Leeds. Ninth year it's been running and I finally got to attend! Was a real pleasure to give a talk here. I'm already looking forward to returning this time next year to see folks at the next one! Best part of events like this is the community.

Hey @heypresents.com attendees, if you're a CSS nerd, I'd love to get your view on a new CSS unit called 'pem' that me and some of the Chrome team are proposing at the CSSWG. We need your feedback on how it will work. Please come and find me if you're interested!

how to find the balance between not having unnecessary interactions to access information but also, not causing cognitive overload with too much information on the screen in one go. is it just about good spacing and visual hierarchy? #AllDayHey

Cheers #AllDayHey fam! It was an honour speaking. I mentioned a coupon code for complete-css.com Use ALLDAYHEY for 30% off

Don't just test on your fancy new MacBook that you're developing on. Use various low cost devices. (Oh look, a laptop with a sticker for an old BBC backend service!) #AllDayHey

What about technical complexity. Increased of making users click a button to access an address in a popover, why not just display the address? Users might not know they need to click the button to access the address. #AllDayHey

For example, the NHS website uses terms like pee and poo rather than stool or urine. #AllDayHey

So how can we tangibly change things? There is research already done that we can look at to simplify things. What about adults with poor literacy levels? Maybe due to disability or English as a second language. Plain English. Active voice. No unnecessary words or jargon. #AllDayHey

Capability, opportunity and motivation lead to behavioural change. Like can you easily get on an app store? Do you have internet access? What thoughts do you have about yourself? #AllDayHey

But relying on digital services creates challenges like users with patchy connections, using assistive technologies, no fixed postal address, in poverty... Digital exclusion can come from lots of things. What prevents people from accessing key services? #AllDayHey

Remember back in the lockdowns during the pandemic when we had to use digital services to arrange vaccinations? Quite straightforward. 20 million adults booked this way. #AllDayHey For some this was the first time using digital services for health.

Next is Sareh my old colleague who used to work on the BBC World Service website, talking about making inclusive digital services. #AllDayHey @sareh88.bsky.social

Met some lovely folks at #AllDayHey today ❤️Props to @philhawksworth.dev for exception levels of Vibe Hosting™. Thoughtful slides on digital exclusion from @sareh88.bsky.social

It’s a real honour to be invited back to speak at All Day Hey! again. It’s a fantastic one-day conference in Leeds. “Such a great talk” “Live coding level: expert” “Fantastic talk!” Come and see me recreate some Daft Punk using nothing but a MIDI controller and a browser. @heypresents.com

I'm going to be speaking at @heypresents.com on May 1st. I can't wait! It's one of the best events there is in the best city in the world: Leeds. It's always good to go back up to my home city and speak. See you there? heypresents.com/conferences/...

Who’s ready for the All Day Hey! 2025 Schedule? 🧡 See this year’s talks and grab a ticket here! heypresents.com/conferences/... 📅 Thursday, 1st May 2025 ⏰ 09:00 - 17:00 BST 📍 Everyman Cinema, Leeds, UK 🔖 Curated single-track programme 🎤 8 industry-focused talks 🧃 Post-event networking with social

It's my pleasure to be speaking at @heypresents.com this year! It's a conference I've been looking forward to attending for a while. You can check out the rest of the lineup and get your tickets here: heypresents.com/conferences/... . See you in Leeds on 1st May! ✨

#LWSJan2025 is 5 days away. Tell your friends, bring your friends. Tickets are free: londonwebstandards.org/events/lwsja...

Don’t miss out on your chance to bag your ticket and bring your friends or colleagues down for the day. Join us on 1st May, 2025 at Everyman Cinema in Leeds!

All Day Hey! 2025 is THIS YEAR! 🎉 We’re incredibly excited to be publishing the full schedule for the day very soon, and a quarter of tickets have already been sold.

Critical Accessibility Theory: 1. Ableism is structural and systematic within organizations and thus prevents true accessibility from being achieved. 2. Accessibility work only begins in earnest when the work benefits a majority without disabilities and often fails to fully address inaccessibility

📝 New post! `aria-label` and `aria-labelledby` aren't allowed on divs, spans, and other static text elements out of the box, and *most* screenreaders won't announce them. #accessibility #a11y

Correct. Truman tried to create a national healthcare system around the same time that European nations were making theirs. It was killed by Dixiecrats because it would have required integrated hospital facilities.

If you want to catch up on the talks from @aifortherestofus.live, you can do that here. I was pleasantly surprised at how accessible especially the opening talks were. No assumption of prior knowledge of the innards of machine learning algorithms and large language models.