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Let's take CSS where it has not gone before. What would happen if you took the classic game DOOM and tried to recreate it in CSS? Every wall, floor, ceiling, barrel, imp and fireball is a <div>. Thousands of them in total, all positioned in 3D space using CSS 3D transforms that will almost bring browsers to their knees. Sprinkle on a good dose of CSS trigonometry functions, animations, filters, clipping paths, animations and transitions… and a bit of JavaScript too, and you'll get a fully playable game - even with network multiplayer support.

The HTML canvas element gives us creative freedom, but it leaves many people behind. Keyboard users, voice control users and others can miss out entirely. Can we build a browser game in canvas without leaving those players behind?

I've been running traintimes.org.uk since 2001, providing live departure boards and journey planning faster than the official site, and in this talk I will show you why and how, and why you should care?

The way most creative developers experience the web is completely different from how most users experience it. For us it's a place to experiment, a technical challenge or a creative playground. For most users it's "just" a tool to get things done and the really uncomfortable part is, that some of the things we add to make websites "better", are actively making that harder.

Sometimes it can feel like we're designing experiences for ourselves and just hoping that users can keep up. This talk shows you how to responsibly add enhancements to your websites.

The best insights about users and systems come from unexpected places. Two years supervising a chicken restaurant taught me more about building better experiences than any classroom ever could.

The tech sector has an elephant in the room: the energy use of digital services can be enormous. In 2024, the World Bank estimated the internet to account for 1-4% of global greenhouse emissions, similar to aviation. The good news is: there are documented and measurable opportunities to improve. From code to infrastructure. As web developers, we can make the web greener at work.

In this talk, we'll look at best practices from the W3C's new Web Sustainability Guidelines and beyond, focusing on lessons you can apply today.

The web was a technical marvel that soon became a utopian project. But whose utopia?

Depends who you asked. What values and visions do we see in today's web? How can we fight for alternatives?

Between layoffs, AI hype, and a barely-recognizable industry, many of us in tech are wondering: now what? This talk takes you on a journey to look for answers in unexpected places — and finds something much greater & more beautiful on the other side.

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