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Oh and all the pets on the conf wall were adorable 😍

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See you all again next year!

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And I lapped up all the weirdness @sachajudd.com told us about. We need more "useless" and weird things on the web. Have to fight that soulless corporate beigeness with whimsy (and accessibility)! Love how it was different from @localghost.dev and @olu.online talks despite the similar message 💜

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Also @gearsco.de talking us through his coding journey. It's amazing how someone so young is already a better teacher than a majority of the people that have taught me 🙃 (and a better dev than I'll ever be :)) Well done, can't wait to see what you do next!

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Highlights were @jesslynnrose.bsky.social & edaeren.bsky.social talk on how LLMs prevent you from learning properly (even though they're marketed for it!). I'm paraphrasing; because I was pushed to use it instead of getting real support before. It's trash and can't replace humans like this, c'mon.

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Tereza K @trennikt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Compulsary annual post: Another great #ffConf yesterday! Had no signal in the venue, but even if I did, too busy thinking and chatting to people to be posting. It felt good to bring some of our team again. Sad I didn't get to talk to most people I wanted, but energy and time were not on my side.

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Love the localisation article, thanks for sharing!

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Tereza K @trennikt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I'm planning to be there, too. Looking forward to seeing you!

So, if you made it this far in the thread, and even if you can't go yourself, see if you can help others make it. I'm sure there are some of you with unspent training budgets.

ffConf is my favourite place in tech and the highlight of my professional year. The event is always super friendly, even for anxious hermits like myself, you'll always learn something new (and you'll struggle to find a conf venue with more comfortable seats!).

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It introduced me to some incredible people in the field who I could learn from, both personally and at a distance. I honestly think I'd be in a massively different place, and likely not working as a dev right now, if I couldn't go.

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And it changed my career. It made me feel like there might be a (small) space for me in this industry after all. That I don't have to be a framework bro with shitty morals to get a paycheck.

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It's very rare that scholarships offer travel and accommodation as well, even though that is often what excludes people even if they can get a ticket! Only one example of how much thought Julie and Remy put into putting this event on. I was lucky to get a spot when I was starting out in tech.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Please ask your employers to support these scholarships! If you're able to, please consider chipping in (the ticket platform allows you to throw in even a few quid 😉, if I'm not mistaken). Your marginalised/future junior colleagues will thank you, speaking from experience.

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We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

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Sophia, MPH @sophiacbess.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

“ICE protestors […] are turning what the tech companies see as an asset into a vulnerability, and they’re exploiting it. There is no one around to stop them […] They have turned these indifferent and extractive technologies into instruments of protest. They are weaponizing the accountability sink.”

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

one of my favorite chatgpt commentaries is "you dont need AI i can also drink a bottle of water and lie to you"

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Tereza K @trennikt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is one way to make me buy more books haha

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Tereza K @trennikt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work” It would work, if your lot weren't greedy rapists.

Tereza K @trennikt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Oof, that's so not ok. Maybe you could put it in the bin in this beta period. This garbage never should have seen the light of day.

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Berlitz II. @vonmandelbrot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 29/03/2025

Using accessibility applications to legitimate generative AI is seriously gross. "But an AI that describes images helps the blind" Someone chose that image and put it where people can see it. *They* can describe it.

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Tereza K @trennikt.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Came to say the exact same thing. Great work!

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/01/2025

OpenAI has to be the most insufferable company in the world. They can steal from the whole world & guzzle all resources. But no one can give them a taste of their own medicine even a little bit. How long till they use this to say give us even more resources & this is why we can't release anything.

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Steve Faulkner @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · 22/01/2025

Some requirements of a civilised society: ✊🏾Healthcare for all ✊🏼Education for all ✊🏽Accessibility for all

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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 29/11/2024

As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely. GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE. Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing. Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.

a11y-ai

Accessibility explained by those impacted.

Check any website for barriers and generate the perspective of those who face them.

A11y-AI is an experiment using the storytelling capabilities of generative AI to bring the impact of accessibility violations to life. It aims to inspire web professionals to take action.

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Simon Groth @simongroth.com · 17/11/2024

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

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Tereza K @trennikt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

These days, when it happens somewhere like here or Mastodon, more often than not, I can click on the alt text and stop wondering WTF. How nice. I really appreciate how easy it is to read alt text if you're a sighted user as well. Let me get all of your jokes!

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Tereza K @trennikt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This. Good reasons for using alt text. Also I'd add: not everyone can immediately understand what you mean if you only use an image to convey that information. The amount of times I stared at an image, wondering WTF does this mean... It could be as harmless as repurposing a meme I don't know.

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Tereza K @trennikt.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Ooh, nice idea, might add that to my site too. Thanks for sharing!