Creativity cannot be computed
The slides from Hidde’s presentation at Beyond Tellerrand.
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My IndieWeb Journey
The slides from a lovely talk by Ana with an important message:
By having your own personal website you are as indie web as it gets. That’s right. Whether you participate in the IndieWeb community or not: by having your own personal website you are as indie web as it gets.
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
A very thought-provoking presentation from Maggie on how software development might be democratised.
ARIA, the good parts
The slides from Hidde’s presentation at Paris Web—a great overview of using and misusing ARIA.
Making Large Language Models work for you
Another great talk from Simon that explains large language models in a hype-free way.
35mm scans — writer/editor/reporter
Clicking through these cold war slides gives an uncomfortable mixture of nostalgic appreciation for the retro aesthetic combined with serious heebie-jeebies for the content.
The slides appear to be 1970s/1980s informational or training images from the United States Air Force, NORAD, Navy, and beyond.
Catching up on the weird world of LLMs
This is a really clear, practical, level-headed explanatory talk from Simon. You can read the transcript or watch the video.
Talk: The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton:
An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content.
W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles (slides)
The slides from Tess’s presentation on the W3C’s ethical web principles—there’s a transcript too.
Open Lecture at CIID: “Keeping up with the Kardashevians” – Petafloptimism
A terrfic presentation from Matt Jones (with the best talk title ever). Pace layers, seamful design, solarpunk, and more.
Getting Started with PWAs [Workshop]
The slides from Aaron’s workshop at today’s PWA Summit. I really like the idea of checking navigator.connection.downlink and navigator.connection.saveData inside a service worker to serve different or fewer assets!
On the origin of cascades
This is a great talk by Hidde, looking at the history and evolution of cascading style sheets. Right up my alley!
The Layers Of The Web
Here are the slides from my opening keynote at Beyond Tellarrand on Thursday. They don’t make much sense out of context.
8 Unbelievable Things You Never Knew About Tracking
The slides from Laura’s excellent talk at FF Conf on Friday.
Own Your Content on Social Media Using the IndieWeb—zachleat.com
A terrific—and fun!—talk from Zach about site deaths, owning your own content, and the indie web.
Oh, and he really did create MySpaceBook for the talk.
Ne vous laissez plus déPOSSEder de vos contenus !
I saw Nicholas give this great talk at Paris Web on site deaths, the indie web, and publishing on your own site. That talk was in French, but these slides are (mostly) in English—I was able to follow along surprisingy easily!
Humanizing Your Documentation - Full Talk - Speaker Deck
The slides from Carolyn’s talk at Beyond Tellerrand. The presentation is ostensibly about writing documentation, but I think it’s packed with good advice for writing in general.
Understanding the Design Process through Avengers: Endgame - Speaker Deck
If this is a typical result, I think Khoi should do more last-minute talk prep.
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Resource Hints - Speaker Deck
Slides from Harry’s deep dive into rel values: preconnect, prefetch, and preload.
Gutenberg and the Internet
Steven Pemberton’s presentation on the printing press, the internet, Moore’s Law, and exponential growth.