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Anchoring insights: Key learnings from Research by the Sea | Clearleft

This was a day of big conversations, but also one of connection, curiosity, and optimism.

Seeing it all laid out like this really drives home just how much was packed into Research By The Sea.

Throughout the day, speakers shared personal reflections, bold ideas, and practical insights, touching on themes of community, resilience, ethics, and the evolving role of technology.

Some talks brought hard truths about the impact of AI, the complexity of organisational change, and the ethical dilemmas researchers face. Others offered hope and direction, reminding us of the power of community, the importance of accessibility, and the need to listen to nature, to each other, and to the wider world.

The Sunshine by the Sea: S20E08 - Harsh Browns

Research by the Sea was one of the best conferences I’ve been to in yeeeeeears. So many good, useful, inspiring, thoughtful, provocative talks. Much more about ethics and power and possibility than I’d expected. None of the ‘utopian bullshit’ you usually get at a product or digital conference, to quote one of the speakers!

The Imperfectionist: Seventy per cent

If you’re roughly 70% happy with a piece of writing you’ve produced, you should publish it.

Works for me!

You’re also expanding your ability to act in the presence of feelings of displeasure, worry and uncertainty, so that you can take more actions, and more ambitious actions, later on.

Crucially, you’ll also be creating a body of evidence to prove to yourself that when you move forward at 70%, the sky stubbornly fails to fall in. People don’t heap scorn on you or punish you.

My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani

This is one way of putting things into perspective.

There are plenty of non-men in tech to speak at your conference - Stephanie Stimac’s Blog

I’m going to share this with the organisers of that conference I pulled out of recently.

Of Books and Conferences Past - Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design

I miss A Book Apart, and I really miss An Event Apart—I made so many friends and memories through that conference. I admire Jeffrey’s honest account of how much it sucks when something so good comes to an end.

You should go to conferences - localghost

Obviously I’m biased, but I very much agree with Sophie.

The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture - St Bride Foundation

Oh, this looks like an excellent event (in London and online):

Adventures in Episodic Type Design

With David Jonathan Ross

Thursday 17th October 2024

Frostapalooza – Chris Coyier

The show itself was an unbelievable outpouring of energy and love. I couldn’t help but imagine if anyone in the audience had decided to go on a lark, not knowing anything about it. I would think they would have been pretty damn impressed. This wasn’t just a couple of nerds poking around at instruments (except me), these were some serious musicians giving it their all.

Frostapalooza in photos and videos | Brad Frost

These are great!!!

Adactio: Journal—Frostapalooza | Brad Frost

Aw, man, this gets me in the feels!

Just over here sobbing while reading Jeremy’s recount of Frostapalooza.

Bohemian Rhapsody finale @ Frostapalooza - YouTube

I love how into it everyone is here, both on stage and in the audience—just look at Jina rocking out!

Will Browar | Photographing Frostapalooza

Wow! The photos that Will took at Frostapalooza (and in the run-up) are absolutely fantastic!

He also shares the technical details for all you camera nerds.

On The Ground At Frostapalooza | CSS-Tricks

I can’t say I would have ever expected to see Jeremy Keith performing the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song “Maps”, but then again, I don’t know what I expected to happen at Frostapalooza.

With great power, comes great creativity: thoughts from CSS Day 2024 · Paul Robert Lloyd

Here’s Paul’s take on this year’s CSS Day. He’s not an easy man to please, but the event managed to impress even him.

As CSS Day celebrates its milestone anniversary, I was reminded how lucky we are to have events that bring together two constituent parties of the web: implementors and authors (with Sara Soueidan’s talk about the relationship between CSS and accessibility reminding us of the users we ultimately build for). My only complaint is that there are not more events like this; single track, tight subject focus (and amazing catering).

Papercamp 3 Tickets, Sat 21 Sep 2024 at 11:00 | Eventbrite

Fifteen years after the first one, Papercamp is back this September and the line-up looks good.

Long live the papernet!

Revisiting Metadesign for Murph – Smithery

I’m really excited about John’s talk at this year’s UX London. Feels like a good time to revisit his excellent talk from dConstruct 2015:

I’m going to be opening up the second day of UX London 2024, 18th-20th June. As part of that talk, I’ll be revisiting a talk called Metadesign for Murph which I gave at dConstruct in 2015. It might be one of my favourite talks that I’ve ever given.

Patternsday 2024 – Photos by Marc Thiele

Lovely photos by Marc from Patterns Day!

theAdhocracy | IndieWebCamp Brighton 2024

An in-depth look at Indie Web Camp Brighton with some suggestions for improving future events. Also, this insightful nugget:

There was something really energising about being with a group of people that had a diverse range of backgrounds, ideas, and interests, but who all shared a specific outlook on one problem space. We definitely didn’t all agree on what the ideal solution to a given problem was, but we were at least approaching topics from a similar starting point, which was great.

Oh Hello Ana - Reflections from IndieWebCamp Brighton

I had a fantastic time and hope it will become a frequent event.

Same!