I'm excited to share that I am one of the speakers for this year's All Day Hey! I first attended All Day Hey in 2018, and it has since been one of my favourite conferences. Well, technically, this is a comeback to the stage since I did give a lightning talk at All Day Hey back in 2019.
So, five years later (I can't believe it has been five years), I will be back, but this time to talk in a longer format about my new experiments with the Web Speech API and thinking a bit more about voice interfaces.
I've been working on new experiments and will be sharing new things I've learnt since I gave this talk at the State of the Browser and FFConf.
Tickets are still available but I bet not for long!
I am excited to attend IndieWebCamp Brighton in less than a month! I already booked my non-refundable hotel, which felt very nerve-wracking!
The last time I tried to attend an IndieWebCamp, I ended up cancelling my trip last minute because childcare plans fell through.
But Brighton is near where I live, so hopefully, all will go well this time.
I'm super looking forward to meeting people from the community and having some dedicated time to work on my little blog! I know that technically, this could have been an RSVP type of post, so it's one more thing for my backlog of things to improve around here.
Let's get these out of the way!
Bookmarks related to tech and web development
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Web development
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