I found myself saying the following a few times during #CSSDay when chatting to people about blogging, so here it goes:
If you want a blog but don’t believe you have anything to share, I suggest creating a monthly post of a roundup of articles you read and recommend.
By the end of the year, you will have 12 blog posts.
It gives you a list of everything you’ve learned.
It is easily findable if you want to share it with others in conversation.
Backlinks and webmentions build connections.
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.
#CSSDay was awesome. Thanks again all for 10 lovely years!
A couple of notes to my #CSSDay talk, for those interested ✍️
You don't *have* to get your fonts from Big Type 🥱
There's plenty of outstanding fonts from indie foundries and type designers, some of whose fonts I used in my slides:
https://djr.com → @djrrb
https://ohnotype.co → @ohno
https://typotheque.com → @typotheque
https://arrowtype.com → @arrowtype
https://liebefonts.com → @LiebeFonts
https://letterror.com → @letterror
https://www.typearture.com → @typearture
#cssday ist the first conference where I see live-posting on Mastodon the way we used to do on Twitter. Clearly a crowd that's present here. Love it!
About three weeks ago, I had the honor to speak at the 10th anniversary edition of #CSSDay about the most powerful design tool for the Web: the new #CSS.
The video of the talk is now up! 🎉
I hope you like it. And in case you do, SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON!!! 😁 (Am I doing this right, @kevinpowell?)
What a brilliant idea by the Chrome DevRel folks at #cssday! Sticky notes for features missing from the web platform, orange stickers for +1 votes.
Quick, low-fi, and insanely useful for anyone working on products for web makers, not just browser teams. Every conference should have boards like this!
