Speaking
I have spoken at many events since my first public talk in 2005. You can see a few of my talks on noti.st and on Conffab. Plus there are some older slide decks on Slideshare.
I was somewhere in front of the crowd at...
- SydJS, April 2025. Less, But Better (reprise)
- MC for the React track at Web Directions Summit (Sydney), November 2024.
- Web Directions Code - opening keynote (Melbourne), June 2024. Less, But Better
- SydJS, December 2023. React In Python With Dash
- MC for the frontend track at Web Directions Summit (Sydney), October 2023.
- Web Directions Hover (Sydney), March 2022. Real World CSS Custom Properties
- SydJS, January 2020. Resetting The Baseline (long version)
- SydCSS, December 2019. Wheel Of Talks night - speakers had 20 minutes to prepare a talk from scratch on a randomly-selected topic. Mine was 'performance' and my talk was Performance and Jank.
- A11y Camp (Sydney), November 2019. Clickable DIVs and Other Icebergs
- SydCSS, February 2019. You Might Not Need SCSS
- Web Directions Summit 2018 (Sydney), October 2018. Things Designers and Developers Should Know
- What Do You Know (Sydney), September 2018. Resetting the Baseline (short version)
- Design Systems Meetup (Sydney), September 2018. The Naming Of Things
- A11y Camp (Sydney), September 2017. Sneaking accessibility into your product
- Web Directions Code 2016 (Sydney & Melbourne), August 2016. The Semver Talk 1.0
- A11y Camp (Sydney), July 2015. ARIA: beyond a11y
- Web Directions Respond (Sydney), March 2015. Should rolling your own be the way you roll?
- SydCSS, December 2014. CSS Skills Garden
- What Do You Know (Sydney), April 2014. Half Of The Next Thing
- SydJS - October 2013. Static is not a dirty word (lightning talk)
- Atlassian Summit (San Francisco), June 2012. The Right Tool For The Job, about using Atlassian UI (AUI) to develop Atlassian Plugins.
- Web Standards Group (Sydney), September 2011. Standards... they grow up so fast. Co-presented with David Lewis.
- SydJS, May 2011. Refactor Wars
- Web Directions South - Ed Directions workshop (Sydney), 2009.
- Edge of the Web (Perth), 2008. Hacking Humans
- Local Government Web Network Conference - day two keynote (Sydney), August 2008. Steering the glacier
- Open Publish (Sydney), July 2008. W3C Standards Are Not Enough
- Web Standards Group (Sydney), February 2008. W3C Standards Are Not Enough
- Open Standards (Sydney), 2007. Beyond Compliance: Why should the W3C have all the fun?
- Web Directions South (Sydney), 2006. The long road: Standards advocacy in large organisations
- OZeWAI (Melbourne), December 2005. Sticks, carrots & staying sane. Presented remote from Brisbane, which was very unusual at the time!
- Organised the WANAU Brisbane Web Accessibility Forum (Brisbane), August 2005.
- Web Standards Group (Brisbane), June 2005. Sticks, carrots & staying sane