General talks
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The Three Developers
Lessons learned from maintaining and migrating software on the web including what makes good code, what makes bad code, and how to be a better developer on a team.
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Design Tokens and CSS: Systemising the Design of Components
Aren’t Design Tokens just spicy Sass variables?
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Building a design system for Lloyds Banking
Building a successful design system is widely held as one of the biggest challenges in the industry right now. How much harder is it when you’re building a design system for a 250 year old, heavily…
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Play, Code, Create
Since that first time a blinking cursor stared back at him after plugging-in his Sinclair ZX81, Brendan Dawes has loved the creative possibilities that code creates.
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Web Design that Doesn't Make Trans People Uncomfortable
People who identify as transgender face a ton of challenges in day-to-day life, and sometimes that includes web forms and account management.
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What I learnt about hiring diverse teams from conducting a fully-anonymous recruitment process
If we want to truly encourage diversity in our industry, we are going to have to listen and respond to feedback from under-represented groups that challenges our assumptions.
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Contain yourself - Docker for developers
Peter will give us a quick intro to Docker
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Design process of a website
This talk covers Stuart's process of creating a website. From the initial idea to the final product and the steps required to convert it to a design system for reuse.
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What the JAMstack?
His talk will cover the basics of JAMstack i.e. what it is, why it’s becoming so popular and also some of the potential drawbacks with using JAMstack. He will then follow up with a short…
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Talking the talk
How many times have you watched a conference or meet-up talk and thought, “I want to do that someday”? Well, why shouldn’t someday be soon?
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Building Your Creative Confidence
Ade-Lee Adebiyi returns to talk candidly about how he's built his creative confidence over the years and overcome impostor syndrome
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We need to talk
Robin Hall takes us through mental health issues in the workplace; how we should deal with them and how things might change for the better.
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Securing your site like it's 1999
Security in the early days of the web was hard. One day your HTML is disintegrating, the next you are fighting someone named “~Ninjad00d~” who has found a way to take over your forum system.
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Empathy in accessibility
In his talk ‘Empathy in Accessibility’, Craig talks us through building empathy for users with impairments, making sure we are aware of how to design services that don’t disable people.
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Professional Progression
We join the industry with little experience, but we’re never destined to stay at that level. Gavin Elliot gives us his very personal take professional progression.
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The State of GraphQL 2018
In the first part of this talk, Jamie will introduce GraphQL and a few core pieces around the typical GraphQL stack. We’ll also explore the common use case for GraphQL and why every almost every…
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Idea to Execution – and Beyond
Ashley Baxter gives us a high-level run through of what it takes to ship a product, touching on each stage from idea, through build, to launch, and what to expect post-launch.
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Alexa Skills (or The Unexpected Virtue of Laziness)
An overview on how to develop custom Alexa Skills, their potential use in modern Web development and for accessibility needs. (There will be bit on machine learning and natural language processing…
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Opening Silos in Big Brilliant Corporations Part 1
Nikos Tsouknidas from the BBC's GEL (Global Experience Language) team tells us about how the BBC is reinventing itself into a culture of embracing constant change and how they're helping open the…
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10 Things You Can and Should Do With SVG
For our Christmas special, Chris Coyier shows us 10 things you could (and should!) be doing with SVG.
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Accessibility for developers: Building a frontend that everyone can use
Alistair Duggin talks about understanding accessibility, covering the challenges users face with accessibility and how this is approached at GOV.UK, where he heads up the accessibility team.
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Jankety Jank
Ben Cooper tells us all about about frontend rendering performance. Understanding how the browser optimises rendering will have your websites running at a silky smooth 60 FPS in no time!
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Weird Browsers
How weird can browsers be? Perhaps Smart TV's aren't as smart as we all would like to think. How do game console handle your websites and are e-readers really capable of browsing the web?
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Transcendence. Where does the backend stop and the frontend begin?
Jamie Hurst is a backend developer with a great deal of respect for Frontend developers. He takes us through where the backend and the frontend meet.
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Making. Where design and front end development meet
Ben Holliday picks up the design side of frontend development, taking us through the 'making' phase, where the two disciplines meet.