New speaker, origin stories, and web baselines
Latest Event News
Our fifth speaker is now live on the website leaving three slots open. We are welcoming seasoned presenters and fresh voices to apply to speak today!
This week, we are sharing our origin story again as we think it is a special one - FFConf is solely born from the hearts and minds of Remy and Julie. But we can't run this alone, we need sponsors to cover costs of venues, filming, coffee and more.
If you have enjoyed spending time with us over the past 17 years, please convince your boss to join the FFConf family so we can keep our community alive. Please get in touch today!
And join us on Friday 13th November - limited early bird tickets are still available for £219+VAT.
From Our Archive
FFConf started in 2009, but did you know that it started in the pub on a snowy day in Brighton. It took only nine months from a random conversation over a beer to become the conference we all know and love.
The full story includes a photo of the original event plan scribbles, so instead here's the snowman we both made hours before FFConf was conceived:
Julie writes:
Remy was complaining about the lack of a conference in the UK that talked about things he was interested in […] So I grabbed a (paper) pub menu and together we sketched out the idea – venue, speakers, possible dates, budget, sponsorship, marketing, website.
So much has changed over those 17 years but our passion to bring people together and share a special atmosphere and connection remains strong.
Community News
If you follow Remy on Bluesky or Mastodon, then you'll have seen him posting about discovering web features that have been stable and widely supported, such as #private properties in JavaScript.
Baseline is a superb way to help decide what's worth using, but also to find out what's new.
- Every feature and its baseline support on webstatus.dev - which you can filtered for just this year
- Maybe you want alerts for when a feature lands in baseline?
- Or you prefer "stats for nerds" or want to see which browsers are failing