Sara Joy 
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New weak note!
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Mostly just musing on the two conferences I went to in May-June. TL;DR #CSSDay and #btconf were just excellent.
Also as always, welcoming more CSS lovers into the ring!
From years of being bored, unsatisfied, or struggling in various jobs and industries, I finally feel like I have come home.
I'm so happy to join an industry with such brilliant, interesting, and gloriously nerdy people - I mean this in the best possible way!
I have attended both Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf and CSS Day 2024 and, wow. Huge thank yous to the organisers, speakers, and to the many warm and funny fellow attendees I had the joy to socialise with.
This is my church.
Heeeyyyy!! Here's the one Rob Draper did for me at Beyond Tellerrand!
It says "wash your hands" and is intended to be hung in the guest WC - I double checked that this wasn't insulting to his art, but he loved the idea :D
Linked pic alt: a tabletop has a dark piece of card on it, and a man's hands painting text with metallic paint in a graffiti style. The unfinished text read "wash your h"
For anyone who was following me livetooting during Beyond Tellerrand a couple of weeks ago - the videos are now being posted every day or two:
David Dylan Thomas started his closing talk strong with such a good quote.
It's still going strong.
Like his talks title says:
"No, seriously, fuck engagement: Building a more human web"
Michael Trautmann is reading from "On the Way to New Work" - 7 Stories from a journey that has only just begun.
A quote he just read that stood out to me personally:
> If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
- Stephen R. Covey
Makes me feel validated now, that in my working life I have tried a lot of different bottom rungs.
Time is scarce. We have too much to do. We can't keep up. We can't mindfulness our way out of it.
How would the big creative minds of history have coped in today's time-scarce world? What are today's creative minds doing? Are some of them stuck tweaking buttons?
How can we use AI to reclaim our time? Can we use it to brainstorm ideas? Have we use it to boost our own learning?
Natalya Shelburne just burst onto the stage with so much energy but with a completely open heart.
"Channeling Chaos: Role of the Artist in the Age of AI"
She's going to convince us that AI does not mean the end of art. She's an artist. Let's go! #BTConf
Weird WC-based thought about #BTConf - how nice to be at a tech conference so well attended by women that I occasionally have to search for a free cubicle 😆
Not that the search is fun. But it's so nice to see that we're here in force :)
These Dyson taps can get in the sea, though. Terrible UX, hard to understand how they work. They also blow the water on my hands back at my waist area, and makes the edge of the sink all wet.
