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Web Directions Dev Summit 2025 was held on November 19th and 20th, at the Dr Chau Chak Wing building at UTS in Sydney.

Web Directions Code Summit and Web Directions Next were held at UTS in 2024. Code Summit was in the Guthrie Theatre, and Next in the amazing Frank Gehry designed Dr Chau Chak Wing facility - aka the ‘paper bag building’ to both fans and detractors.

Web Directions Leaders & Web Directions Summit 2023 were hybrid events, held in person at the ICC Sydney and online streamed on Conffab.

For a while on Twitter I ran a parody account based on Marie Kondo changing careers and becoming an engineer - applying the KonCodie Method.

Given the state of Twitter, I took the account down. But people who knew about it asked if I could repost it for posterity... so here it is! I guess it sparked joy ;)

The web industry is unlikely to ever stop building custom UI components, which is fine. But the web industry also seems unlikely to stop replicating the same accessibility errors while doing so… which is not.

Web Directions Summit 22 was a milestone, with the return of an in-person audience at the ICC in Sydney alongside the now-familiar streaming audience.

In the last year I’ve been working regularly with Python, porting a UI library to Dash and supporting people making apps with it. This is the blog post I wish I'd been able to find when I started learning Python.