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I'm curious - have you thought about getting a ticket to @ffconf.org but then not (or haven't yet)? Why? It's a sincere question, we're trying to understand what's holding people back. (you can email me too remy@leftlogic.com)

An FFConf slide with the 8 speakers along the bottom. The text on the slide reads: "Between layoffs, AI hype, and a barely-recognisable industry, many of us in tech are wondering: what now? Join us at FFConf".

With the sidebar of: 8 speakers, Brighton UK, Fri 13 Nov.

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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · 9h

Stupid #a11y question: if multiple images form a logo and I wrap these `img` elements in a `div` with `role='img'` and an `aria-label`, do I still need to set an empty `alt` on the `img` elements?

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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Simplest sliced text with absolutely no duplication - not in the markup, not in any pseudos. This means it's contenteditable without requiring JS! Live demo on @codepen.io: codepen.io/thebabydino/... #CSS #SVG #filter

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London Web Standards @londonwebstandards.org · 8h

There are still tickets available for this

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Laura Kalbag @laurakalbag.com · 29/09/2026

Brilliant satire for a wonderful event

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 29/09/2026

After careful consideration and a look at where the industry is spending it's funding we've decided to pivot #FFConf in a "new" direction. I present to you: ffconf.ai Please share with bots and humans alike.

ffconf.ai

FFConf.ai

The web conference, now with 100% less you. Agent-first, human-optional, ice cream not included in the Enterprise tier.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 29/09/2026

ffconf.ai

FFConf.ai

The web conference, now with 100% less you. Agent-first, human-optional, ice cream not included in the Enterprise tier.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 29/09/2026

Wow. Now that's a subject! Spammer "accidentally" put the body in the subject field.

It's spam, you really don't want to know. Lots of the word "financing" repeated over and over with different conditions, like mortgage, etc.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 29/09/2026

Appreciate this is going to go rather wide, but we've had reports of ffconf.org not being reachable (literally ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED). I'd really appreciate a test and if anyone finds it refusing to let me know (obs it's reporting as up on downforme, etc).

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 28/09/2026

I've cobble my own book tooling recently, a mix of calibre on desktop, syncthing (+awkward "calibre needs to be shutdown before sync"), a custom opds server and custom koreader patches - and…it's sort of hung together. Just discovered bookorbit. It's very…claudey…but so far ticking a LOT of boxes.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 28/09/2026

There's a weird tension between the posts I see (exclusively on linkedin) that are anti-AI (usually "vibe coder vs engineer") and yet use LLM generated image to demonstrate their point. I mean, it works to get the point across, but…just doesn't sit quite in the right spot…

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 27/09/2026

Cleaning up my owned music and audio files, and this has surfaced itself. Do I delete the wonderful @adactio.com, @hicks.design, @meyerweb.com @tantek.com.web.brid.gy and Molly (RIP) from my disk? 🤔 I should really listen to this to see if anything has gotten better in the last 2 decades…

The at-media 2006 "hot topics" panel as an audio file.

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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Since 2022, I've started adding conditional support info boxes in the actual demos via `@supports`. They've gone through quite a few iterations since: codepen.io/thebabydino/... codepen.io/thebabydino/... But I've eventually settled on just showing them if something's off.

Screenshot showing a "no support" info box. This has a red background.

Screenshot showing a "no support, using fallback" info box. This has an orange background.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 27/09/2026

This is a beautiful blog post and I love the work that went into the demos: ishadeed.com/article/css-... Took me to getting entirely to the end of the post to realise none of it worked because I use Firefox. I do wish we'd get better at marking "at time of writing X is supported/broken".

ishadeed.com

Detect when elements overlap with CSS

Detecting when two elements overlap using only CSS anchor positioning and scroll-driven animations.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 26/09/2026

An update on the (so-called) redesign of my blog: remysharp.com/2026/09/26/r... I also note that social card embeds don't like .avif images, which is a shame…but I can't be arsed to add the png right now.

remysharp.com

Redesign: fonts, alignment and nav

As I continue occasionally tinker on the redesign I've started (and often think "what's the point, current design is fine"), I wanted to share some o…

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 25/09/2026

Made the mistake of buying LinkNLink presence sensor a year ago. It regularly signs me out and drops connectivity, and the latest update, I can't sign in so doing a password reset and selected *Europe* to then be presented with this:

From what I can tell from the screenshot it is a with a tiny bit of English text in the background and there's a dialogue that's asking me a question where there is a blue button and a grey button whilst having no idea what any of it means

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 25/09/2026

I love the quotes we get from attendees of @ffconf.org. And how cute do @hereinthehive.bsky.social and @hannahc.bsky.social look! It's the people that make the events. I look forward to this feeling each time.

Photos of groups of people chatting, taking selfies together and smiling together.

A quote beneath reads: "every time I've been to FFConf, I've left with my faith fully restored in humanity and the web development community, and itching to try out new things. It's always an inspiring event in calendar."

Get your ticket day: 2026.ffconf.org

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 24/09/2026

It's like calling a bullet "rouge". When are these companies actually going to be pressed legally for their cyberattacks? It seems to be coming from the same small group of massive tech companies, not random hackers.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 24/09/2026

I very much doubt if the media or society as a whole will call it what is, but this, "an agent hacking" wasn't just a random company, OpenAI did this. They wrote the software and pointed it out into the world. It's not the agent that's "rouge". www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOfV...

youtube.com

Rogue AI hacks government system in world first | The Latest

YouTube video by Today in Focus

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youtube.com

Rogue AI hacks government system in world first | The Latest

YouTube video by Today in Focus

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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 24/09/2026

I have three tickets to see Death Cab for Cutie at the Troxy in London this Friday (show is sold out) that I can no longer use. Unreserved standing, to sell at face value £. Let me know if you're interested!

bandsintown.com

Death Cab for Cutie @ Troxy

Sep 25, 2026 - London, United Kingdom

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 23/09/2026

A first for me: I was on the chest bench between a set (60 seconds rest) and someone took the weight off my bar. I didn't realise until I pushed the bar and realised it was massively easier. Fuck that person.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 23/09/2026

Navidrome users - do you have a favourite (player) client? Ideally web based, but can be native too.

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 22/09/2026

Looking forward to seeing people here!

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 19/09/2026

I want Custom Attributes to exist - think Custom Elements (Web Components) but Attributes. I've been working on a proposal, specs, and now a polyfill: www.keithcirkel.co.uk/custom-attri... More coming soon!

keithcirkel.co.uk

Custom Attributes polyfill

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 19/09/2026

Do I fix this clock or just leave the kids completely confused?

An analogue clock where the big hand is pointing to 12, and the small hand is between the 4 and 5…

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 19/09/2026

It took me quite a while to work out how I was going to drill this long screw in at an angle like this *and* keep everything study. I was pretty chuffed when it all worked. Of course, I'd attached the wood to the wrong side and had to take it all apart afterwards, because…I've no real idea!

Two planks of wood set on their narrow edge upright perpendicular to each other. Clamps all over the place and looking precarious as fuck.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 18/09/2026

Yesterday I highlighted the interview with Deeksha, but last week we had @lenareinhard.com questions. This isn't the stuff you'll find in a blog post or in response from an LLM prompt. Join us in November. ffconf.org/articles/202...

A quote from Lena's description: "Between layoffs, AI hype, and a barely-recognizable industry, many of us in tech are wondering: now what?"

Hear Lena speak at https://2026.ffconf.org - for people who still give a damn about the web and it's community.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 18/09/2026

This has been on my mind as well. Wouldn’t it be great if the AI Wild West – especially the open-weight models – got regulated, and there were only a few very responsible, very trustworthy companies allowed to proceed working with this incredibly dangerous technology? youtu.be/4qV5WWgFTS8

youtu.be

'Big Short' investor Steve Eisman on AI: The companies are trying to manufacture a crisis

YouTube video by CNBC Television

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 17/09/2026

Not the best picture, but I made some steps (to replace the random metal tetanus wannabe box in our garage we use as a step). The bit that I'm chuffed with, is that it's made from parts we removed from the little one's bunk bed. Upcycle win. Plus, I've never made anything like this before #bodgeit

A wooden structure resembling steps. They look solid and study, and wood appears to be from a bed frame that was painted black.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 17/09/2026

I'm going to link to our already published @ffconf.org "interview" questions for existing speakers, but today we published Deeksha's. Her talk is "Lessons on chaos, customers, and better systems from a chicken restaurant". Yes, at a web conf. Join us in November. ffconf.org/articles/202...

A quote from Deeksha's description: "the best insights about user and systems come from unexpected places."

Hear Deeksha speak at https://2026.ffconf.org - for people who still give a damn about the web and it's community.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 17/09/2026

Album I woke up needing to listen to this morning: The Score by the Fugees

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 15/09/2026

Dude sleeping on the train with his bare old man feet and extra old man toe nails up on the seat: stay classy.

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 14/09/2026

Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.

geoffgraham.me

Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham

Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 15/09/2026

Fuck. Me. Yeah, web ain't a fair fight these days.

Big Tech outspends everyone on lobbying

Tobacco 14M EUR

Oil & Gas 30M EUR

Big Pharma 40M EUR

Big Tech 48M EUR

Source: EU Transparency Register

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 15/09/2026

I keep thinking about and seeing articles written about this "AI will kill >10% of humanity in the [next?!] decade". Um, 4 or 6 years 🤷 But, if governments put private firms like OpenAI in charge of their power delivery, then yar it bad. But it's capitalism & greed that will kill >10% of humanity.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 14/09/2026

Far from happy with it, and far from complete, lots of shuffling bits around. Apparently me adding orange has turned into orange and brown. I _think_ that's okay…

A screenshot of my blog front page in the orange and black design. It's mostly structured the same way it is today: a welcome message, the start of the latest post, a list of links of Remy elsewhere, and then lots of internal links to archives and about pages, etc.

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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I shall be banging on about hippie bullshit "open web" stuff, while my chum Gerardo, a reformed sinister Brussels economist, will tell you how to turn hippie bullshit into actual RULES. Be there, if you're not a MAJOR LOSER. (It'll be recorded, too.)

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 14/09/2026

My blog post about the start of a redesign where I SPECIFICALLY say I won't touch the layout, and promptly fuck my current web site 🤦 remysharp.com/2026/09/14/r... 18 minute commit history speaks volumes to my brain ability right now.

The commit messages from 18 minutes ago to now:

1. a post about the design
2. cleaning files
3. so much for not tweaking your blog, you fucking idiot
4. ffs
5. remind me why I'm doing this instead of getting to the gym
6. you sir, are a bag of arse

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 13/09/2026

Trying to work out if it's worthwhile adding highlight CSS API to my redesign, when it's a CSS function that doesn't work without JavaScript and put the onus on the visitor to highlight the code. This instead of massive number of spans that they download and parse (though it'll compress well).

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 12/09/2026

Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? (Gift Article)

Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's on. I'm running to be the next Green MP for Holborn & St Pancras. donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk

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Scott Riley @scott.is · 10/09/2026

🦄🌈 launch day babeyyy 🌈🦄 super excited to announce the launch of mindful design products. calm products for a chaotic world. the goal is to build a line of lovely things that are designed for real people. first app is lorist, a writing app that gets out of your way. mindfuldesign.xyz/products/

mindfuldesign.xyz

Mindful Design Products – Mindful Design

Mindful Design products are forever–free products designed from the ground up to be calm, opinionated, and lovely to use.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 11/09/2026

Just seen Pressure - very good. Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser are very good. Also, massively comfy seat, I'd say even, perfect for a conference, perhaps in November at 2026.ffconf.org

Photo of Duke of Yorks cinema with the the legs of the Wicked witch showing upwards with black and white leggings, and two flags flying: trans support and pride

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