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These were all brilliant speakers! Thank you again to @alexolder.com and @lurkmoophy.bsky.social for another wonderful, organic, homemade, wholesome conference.

Luke on stage giving thanks to all of the speakers.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

The @webdevconf.com somehow finished early so we had an extra bonus talk from @lurkmoophy.bsky.social The intro alone took about 10 mins as Luke told us the various things that they have tried to do. 😂 But that was sort of the point. They talked about the effect of doing too many things at once.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

Our last talk was by @paavandesign.com who talked about how to make our designs make us feel calmer. Even just a notifications settings page on your OS can feel quite intense. So how do we do 'calm design'? A feeling that it's handled and you can just relax?

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

Now those in early careers are learning that they can have instant answers rather than slowing over time bumping into issues and retaining that knowledge. This is known as never-skilling in one scientific paper, observed by people working in medicine.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

We learn from short term memory, practice and then things stick in our long term memory. But with LLM use, that is affecting your learning. And it's even affecting how you receive feedback. And the less experienced you are, the more they're going to impact your learning.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

The next talk was by @jesslynnrose.bsky.social and @rivea0.bsky.social as a dynamic duo. Talking about how the AI hype that is everywhere right now. And how that is affecting our skills. It felt like necessary therapy for all of us!

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

We need to practice non-judgment. Which brings psychological safety and you can catch issues early because people feel comfortable talking about them. Otherwise we bring our own interpretation which distorts what we are listening to.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

We've had @amyhupe.bsky.social who has worked for us at the BBC!! We loved it when she was with us. She was talking about whether we have a listening deficit in the UK. How well are we listening to one another? And how is it affecting us?

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

You can help the user by doing things like telling them what you're doing to do with the information you give. And you can do usability testing to really understand users' thoughts. See how you can avoid forcing people to lie to get around your questions.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

We've had a lovely lightning talk from @cjforms.bsky.social about when we lie on forms. And often it's because we need to muddle through the form and we're not given valid options. Or we want to protect our privacy.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

Creativity is not the same as art, design and aesthetics. But it contributes to all of them. Hidde gave us an incredible overview of how art affects us and inspires us... Or doesn't! What it does to an audience is what it's all about.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

I'm the next talk, @hidde.blog told us about how Ada Lovelace was the original dev rel. Dreaming up ways to use Charles Babbage's machines with algorithms. The history of computer science is so interesting. But that doesn't mean it can replace creativity. @webdevconf.com

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 09/10/2026

We had Duncan Petrie talking about some incredible and creative ways of using requestAnimationFrame which involved Fabergé eggs and a springy chicken crossing the road and very well animated spiders! @webdevconf.com

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 25/07/2026

I've just been in my first mosh pit. It was for the Oxford symphony orchestra. 😂

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 24/07/2026

I'm at my first music festival. Are you proud of me, @letorey.co.uk ?

Truck Festival main stage pictured, with someone holding an inflatable goose up on a stick

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 13/06/2026

And you could have some pseudo elements to style all of the different components of the range slider.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 13/06/2026

The nice thing about this markup is that you get a good fallback of two sliders on browsers that don't support it.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 13/06/2026

There is an explainer on OpenUI for this extended range control. It involves a new element: a rangegroup. Nice and simple and works like a fieldset. you can contain all of your range controls in there.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 13/06/2026

At @css.cafe we have @utilitybend.com is talking about the work he and others are doing at OpenUI for dual slider controls. There are so many out there on the web.

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 13/06/2026

I'm at @css.cafe and Marco Christian Krenn is talking about design systems and auto generating with code their colour system. They have a similar colour layering system to us at the BBC but I love how it's so automated.