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John Allsopp

@johnfallsopp.com
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Great grand father of responsive web design. Web Daoist. Organiser of the Web Directions conferences webdirections.org Built the streaming service for conferences conffab.com post clips to Bluesky from any webpage webdirections.org/bluesky-poster

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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How far ahead browsers fetch lazy images: • Chrome: 1,250px on 4G, 2,500px on 3G, 6,000px (!!) on 2G • Firefox: 600px, on any connection • Safari: one viewport. Lazy iframes: 0px, they wait until on screen
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Lazy Loading Images and Media: How Far Ahead Browsers Fetch
How far ahead Chrome, Firefox and Safari fetch lazy media, why a lazy hero image slows your page, and where to use lazy, eager and fetchpriority.
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Kris Howard @web-goddess.org · 26/09/2026
Any Fedi friends participating in tonight’s Sydney Bike Rave? @shermozle @stufromoz ?
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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 22/09/2026
Rotator cuff surgery on Friday! I shall have some days of low function. In unrelated news, did you know I write and sell books? As a self-employed person, this is the means by which I derive my living.
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Store - Aperiodical Publishing Co.
Browse books, ebooks, audiobooks, letterpress prints, and creative projects from Aperiodical Publishing Co.
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Glenn Fiedler @mas-bandwidth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is really interesting for future AI driven UI work www.openui.com/blog/oui-1
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OpenUI - The Open Standard for Generative UI
Full-stack, renderer-agnostic Generative UI with a streaming-first language, official React support, community integrations, and up to 67% fewer tokens than JSON.
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 10/09/2026
if you wanna be a good trans ally, hire us to good jobs we are way more likely to face financial insecurity, make 60 cents on the dollar compared to our cis counterparts, and a lot of us are *insanely* talented
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Urgent to figure out something better than the subscription model for long form writing. You can’t read anything online anymore
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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Conferences done for another year. Next one: June 2027. For now, a bit of a break from organising and hosting and back to focusing on design research and writing.
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 28/08/2026
Run a meetup or a community for people building with AI? December 6–13 is the best week you'll ever have to run it — NeurIPS is in Sydney, AI Engineer Sydney is on. We'll list it, promote it, send people your way. Costs nothing, stays yours. aiweek.com.au/host
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 27/08/2026
Why are anthropic models in particular obsessed with rooms?
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 26/08/2026
AI Week Melbourne had two hackathons, one from Google DeepMind. Vercel brought their Sydney AI Meetup down with Maincode. Microsoft, Atlassian and Zendesk all hosted events. Sydney is Dec 6–13, with NeurIPS in town. Want your company in it? Now's the time to talk. aiweek.com.au/partners
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 24/08/2026
Most of AI Week Sydney hasn't been announced yet. The conference and the Hack Day are locked in. The meetups, workshops and evening events land between now and December. Sign up and we'll email you as each is confirmed: aiweek.com.au
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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 20/08/2026
the first in a 3-part series on @honeycomb.io's AI norms and values is up. this one is called "How We Do Business at Honeycomb." www.honeycomb.io/blog/ai-norm... values are not supposed to be aspirational slogans. values should codify how things actually work. this is how it works at ours.
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AI Norms & Values, Part 1 of 3: How We Do Business
AI amplifies what's already there, it doesn't fix or ruin you. Charity Majors on a year of Honeycomb's AI mandate and the values behind how we do business.
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 20/08/2026
AI Week Melbourne brought two dozen AI events to the city in a week. So we're bringing it to Sydney: December 6–13. Conferences, hack days, meetups, workshops — from AI Engineer, our partners, and maybe even you. NeurIPS is in town the same week. aiweek.com.au
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 18/08/2026
Run a meetup or a community for people building with AI? December 6–13 is the best week you'll ever have to run it — NeurIPS is in Sydney, AI Engineer Sydney is on. We'll list it, promote it, send people your way. Costs nothing, stays yours. aiweek.com.au/host
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Igalia @igalia.com · 14/08/2026
🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats State of CSS 2026: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com discuss the results of State of CSS 2026 www.igalia.com/chats/state-...

A sandy colored title card that says the same. There is a photo of the a cowboy in the sunset in the lower left and "sound-waves" are visualized  emanating from it
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 14/08/2026
AI Week Melbourne had two hackathons, one from Google DeepMind. Vercel brought their Sydney AI Meetup down with Maincode. Microsoft, Atlassian and Zendesk all hosted events. Sydney is Dec 6–13, with NeurIPS in town. Want your company in it? Now's the time to talk. aiweek.com.au/partners
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 12/08/2026
Most of AI Week Sydney hasn't been announced yet. The conference and the Hack Day are locked in. The meetups, workshops and evening events land between now and December. Sign up and we'll email you as each is confirmed: aiweek.com.au
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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 11/08/2026
This is the coolest article I've ever written. Genuinely. All of you should read it.
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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Here's a podcast we recorded with @democrats.org.au back in 2023 about it: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/k...
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 10/08/2026
AI Week Melbourne brought two dozen AI events to the city in a week. So we're bringing it to Sydney: December 6–13. Conferences, hack days, meetups, workshops — from AI Engineer, our partners, and maybe even you. NeurIPS is in town the same week. aiweek.com.au
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 10/08/2026
Every year someone asks why we don't run multiple tracks. Honest answer: multi-track quietly hands you a worse day. Single track means the whole room shares the same three days. Sydney, 26–28 Aug: webdirections.org/uxaustralia/...
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 06/08/2026
Most of AI Week Sydney hasn't been announced yet. The conference and the Hack Day are locked in. The meetups, workshops and evening events land between now and December. Sign up and we'll email you as each is confirmed: aiweek.com.au
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/08/2026
Big new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library for talking to hundreds of different LLMs - reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses support, server-side tools, smarter logging and a whole lot more simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/n...
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New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side …
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Rupert Manfredi @ruperts.world · 04/08/2026
Kicking it in Sydney at Homebrew Agents Club tonight @johnfallsopp.com @webdirections.org
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 04/08/2026
Homebrew Agents Club is tonight — Blackwattle, 76 McEvoy St, Alexandria, from 6pm. A couple of short demos, plenty of good conversation, food and drinks on us. homebrewagents.club/meetups/2026...
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Web Directions @webdirections.org · 04/08/2026
Homebrew Agents Club is tonight — Blackwattle, 76 McEvoy St, Alexandria, from 6pm. A couple of short demos, plenty of good conversation, food and drinks on us. homebrewagents.club/meetups/2026...
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Scott Tolinski @tolin.ski · 31/07/2026
I’m exploring the mental health effects of AI coding. This is a super quick (blazing fast), anonymous survey. Please fill out and share so that the responses will be well rounded. forms.gle/dpD8Tk1QnXAz...
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AI Coding & Mental Health
All answers are anonymous.
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 31/07/2026
Homebrew Agents Club is back Tue Aug 4, 6–9pm — Blackwattle Bar & Brewery, Alexandria. Monthly night for people building with agents. No talks, no pitches. Free, food and drinks on us. RSVP: homebrewagents.club/meetups/2026...
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Web Directions @webdirections.org · 30/07/2026
Homebrew Agents Club is back Tue Aug 4, 6–9pm — Blackwattle Bar & Brewery, Alexandria. Monthly night for people building with agents. No talks, no pitches. Free, food and drinks on us. RSVP: homebrewagents.club/meetups/2026...
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Joseph Lawson @joekiller.com · 27/07/2026
Oh hi
An O'Reilly book cover titled "Observability Engineering" 2nd Edition, featuring an illustration of a brown Maned Wolf standing on all fours. The authors' names charity majors, liz fong-jones, and george miranda with austin parker are visible at the bottom right.
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 30/07/2026
Most conference programs this year have an AI talk. Ours has about six, and they don't agree with each other. That's roughly where the honest conversation is right now. UX Week, Sydney 26–28 Aug: webdirections.org/uxaustralia/...
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DDD Melbourne | 20th February 2027 @dddmelbourne.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
LLMs can help us write talk proposals, but first think about who your talk is for, and what you want them to takeaway. "Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it 'to whom it may concern.'" — Nancy Duarte www.lenareinhard.com/articles/how...
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How To Write CfP Submissions That Get Your Tech Conference Talk Accepted — Lena Reinhard
You've got a great idea for a tech talk, but your submissions keep getting rejected. The problem is (in most cases) not your topic—it's how you're representing it in your abstract. After reviewing…
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 29/07/2026
Design Research: nine talks, one day. Sydney, Wed Aug 26 — the day before UX Australia, same venue, and the bundle covers all three days. Full schedule now live. webdirections.org/design-resea...
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Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 28/07/2026
I am a huge fan of Erin's work. She is consistently ahead of the curve in terms of probing at and understanding how technology affects actual humans. Very happy that she is digging into this space, and we hope others will support this work too: opencollective.com/atprotocolde...
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Cloud Atlas - Open Collective
Building an initial map of the atproto ecosystem. Featuring 12-15 apps with interviews of builders.
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 28/07/2026
"It's 10 out of 10 for AI Engineer, it's 10 out of 10 for Web Directions and John Allsopp." — Ron Au, Canva, at AI Engineer Melbourne. AI Engineer Sydney: Dec 7–8. Tickets + CFP open now. webdirections.org/ai-engineer
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 28/07/2026
UX Australia is a month away and the full schedule is live. Twenty sessions, two days, single track — so you'll see all of it. Sydney, Aug 27 & 28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/...
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Dan Moore is at Monktoberfest @mooreds.com · 26/07/2026
Submitted to HN: The state of AI agents, in numbers www.getreadyforagents.com/statistics Article URL: www.getreadyforagents.com/statistics Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490521… Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Agent Statistics — AI Agent Adoption, Hiring & Governance | Get Ready For Agents
A curated, sourced set of AI-agent statistics you can quote in one click — live hiring figures from our Jobs Index, governance frameworks tracked, plus high-authority adoption and ROI data.
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Web Directions @webdirections.org · 25/07/2026
Melissa Voderberg (Publicis Sapient) at Design Research 2026: What Can't AI See? Ethnographic research in a post-screen world. Sydney, Wed Aug 26. webdirections.org/design-resea...
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jessica @ds-jessica.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
engineer away the slop ghuntley.com/slop
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engineer away the slop
🎉It's been a busy six months, that's for sure. I'm not going to bury the lede here; the short TLDR is I'm joining the folks over at https://antithesis.com/. If I wind back time to November 2024, it w...
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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 25/07/2026
I’m so sick and tired of the entire tech world resting on the massively undervalued work of folks in open source, in education, community building doing unpaid or drastically underpaid standards work. It goes on. It’s been happening for decades. It’s just do pronounced now.
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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 24/07/2026
Simon Willison is an (inter)national treasure. If you want the definitive take on the OpenAI/HuggingFace hack, it's here on his excellent blog: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/...
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OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the …
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Dan Moore is at Monktoberfest @mooreds.com · 23/07/2026
Submitted to HN: What happens when the information runs out blog.jimgrey.net/2026/06/30/what-ha… Article URL: blog.jimgrey.net/2026/06/30/what-ha… Comments URL: …
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What happens when the information runs out - Down the Road
When I asked AI to colorize old family photographs, it gave my brother eyebrows that aren't on the negative. That's when I started thinking less about color and more about information.
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Catch up on our most recent Community Lecture: "Why Your Brain Hates Losing" with Colin Camerer, on loss aversion and how different regions of the brain encode gains and losses. Watch here:
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Why Your Brain Hates Losing
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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
... whose mother won't allow it. Every other male of any age indicated zero concern and zero accommodation for travelling at night on public transport. Every single woman either avoided it or makes explicit accommodations to protect their safety. Violence against women is not a two way street.
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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I've spent the last 5 weeks conducting and/or listening to research sessions looking at how people engage with public spaces and transport infrastructure in particular. Ages 12-85. So far, the only male who has indicated any concerns about travelling at night was a 12 yr old boy...
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Web Directions @webdirections.org · 23/07/2026
AI Engineer — the world's leading conference for AI and software engineers — is coming to Sydney, Dec 7–8, the same week as NeurIPS. Three tracks, a Workshop Day, and a free Hack Day. Super Early Bird is $995 until Aug 28, or until it sells out. webdirections.org/ai-engineer
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 21/07/2026
🚨TWO YEARS FROM TODAY! 🚨 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OVER AUS/NZ ☀️🌑🌏 Here's the view 6M+ people in #Sydney will have. Last one here was 1857. Next one here is 2858. It's a once-in-a-thousand-year (totality) event! Are you thinking of coming along to Sydney? A thread of info for you 🧵👇 📸 TimeAndDate
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 21/07/2026
Korean lab, Motif, releases a 341B model that performs on par with DSv4 (1.6T) they have some actual architectural innovations and a detailed tech report huggingface.co/Motif-Techno...
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Motif-3-Beta
" A Preview / beta checkpoint - not the final release. This repository hosts an intermediate checkpoint of Motif-3. The final checkpoint will be released soon."
Motif-3 is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model built from the ground up by Motif Technologies following a fully in-house, proprietary design - not a re-parameterization of existing open-source architectures.
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~314B total parameters / ~13B active per token (sparse MoE)
256K context length (262,144 tokens), natively long-context
Sparse routing: 384 experts with 8 activated per token, plus 1 shared expert
Multilingual, general-purpose
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Web Directions @webdirections.org · 21/07/2026
Ania Mastalerz (Atlassian) at Design Research 2026: The Researcher as a Diplomat — carrying truth across boundaries between teams that don't speak the same language. Sydney, Wed Aug 26. webdirections.org/design-resea...
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