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Web Directions Blog was founded in 2004. It is run by John Allsopp. Their conferences bring together the web industry's leading experts from around the world to educate and inspire their attendees. Safe and feasible they look forward to hosting their annual Summit, covering all things web and digital-engineering, design, product, culture and leadership. Get the latest news from the coding..
Web Directions Blog
4d ago
This week we released the videos from the ‘front of the front end’ track at Web Directions Developer Summit, on the heels of the recent keynote videos. All are available to Conffab Pro members (that’s just $19.95 a month or $195 a year), alongside nearly 1,000 presentations from past Web Directions (and other) conferences. But for our wonderful ..read more
Web Directions Blog
1w ago
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the question ‘what is Software Engineering in an age of LLMs’. So much so that I’ve started a Linkedin Group for those similar interested–so if that’s you, please come join. So this week we return to a grab bag of interesting things I came across the last week ..read more
Web Directions Blog
2w ago
After last week’s deep dive on the question “What is Software Engineering in the age of LLMs?” this week we round up a bumper crop of recent reading, with a heavy dose of performance, some security, CSS and more. The web on mobile Ten or fifteen years ago, the gap between the web and native ..read more
Web Directions Blog
3w ago
Every week I read a lot of articles, blog posts, listen to numerous podcasts, watch a fair number of videos, all trying to keep up with what is happening in a relatively narrow slice or two of technology. It’s interesting that sometimes a raft of related things arrive almost all at once, and the last ..read more
Web Directions Blog
3w ago
This is one of the most exciting announcements we’ve ever, ever made. So I won’t bury the lede–UX Australia and Web Directions are joining forces to bring you the 2025 edition of their legendary conference. Say What? I’ve long admired UX Australia, which has been around since 2009, just a couple of years after Web ..read more
Web Directions Blog
1M ago
Week 3 of our 2025 streak features articles, documentaries and bonus presentation videos on a range of topics for anyone working on the Web. From CSS features old and new, to a very engaging and watchable documentary on the origins of Node.JS, and much more. Remember if you’re keen to talk at one of our ..read more
Web Directions Blog
1M ago
Keeping up our 2025 posting streak (of now 2, but from little things…), here’s a roundup of some things we found this week we thought you might find valuable. Plenty of CSS and thoughts on architecting the Web, plus some AI for developers related articles as well, and more. Like what you see? Checkout our ..read more
Web Directions Blog
1M ago
A new (Gregorian) year has begun (while the Lunar New Year is still a couple of weeks off). I hope it has begin well with you. Since the last newsletter, I’ve posted dozens of ‘elsewheres’ over at Conffab–this newsletter usually rounds up some of the recent highlights, but you can find much more over there ..read more
Web Directions Blog
2M ago
A new year has well and truly begun, and so it’s time to focus on programming our conferences for 2025. Well, we’re actually well under way on that, with speakers lining up for Code, Code Leaders, and Dev Summit, but we’d love to hear from you! Code (Melbourne June 12th and 13th) and Dev Summit ..read more
Web Directions Blog
3M ago
Tis the season of Advent Calendars–not the ones you open the little windows of to get a treat, but ones you visit each day in December to get a great article. I’m not sure exactly when they started, but they’re not a recent phenomenon. And they do however seem to be having something of a ..read more