September 3rd, 2024

@adactio wow

It’s 16 years since I stated Ada Lovelace Day because conference organisers would pull this lazy stunt, and they are still doing it? FFS.

@adactio I can’t even get the page to load, I guess it’s suffering the Mastodon hug 😅

@adactio Ohhh! 2005 called, they want their excuses back ;-)

@adactio fuck. That’s… not remotely an excuse.

@adactio I kind of did not expect anything much from a event organised (previously?) by a company called “Frontmen” but they managed to still disappoint me

@charis @adactio Interesting, just yesterday I was taking a look at this conference, and couldn’t figure out who organises it.

@ppk @adactio Men, probably :-))

@adactio also, cynical response from me aside, thank you for pulling out, drawing a line and sharing your concerns. That’s the kind of ally behaviour we need ❤️

@charis @adactio I think I see why you’re saying that…

@adactio oh… well, FWIW I was one of the women who applied and didn’t even get a rejection back 🤷‍♀️ (not that I expected to be accepted but yeah…)

@anarodrigues @adactio that condemns them further!

From a lightning talk I have yet to give. If no-one at all applied, would that be ok?

@adactio WTAF?????

@adactio Outstanding scores on lighthouse

@adactio That’s a big yikes. (and not that the following is in any way worse than lack of representation, but they didn’t even want to pay an artist, and generated their background with “AI” instead 😬)

@adactio wtf is “this kind of jobs”?

Oh, front-end developer? How strange. Front-end is the only segment of my company’s IT department where women are in the majority!

And it looks like they found one woman to put up on their speaker page since you dropped.🙄

@adactio @ppk 😑

@adactio *holy* shit

@charis @adactio @ppk Ahem:

@charis @adactio @ppk Also, please note that data-optimized=”1”, so…

@adactio not sure who @jamiebradders has been speaking to then. Might just be a little town “up Norf”, but the Middlesbrough FE conference line-up was way better! https://www.middlesbroughfe.co.uk/speakers

Speakers | Middlesbrough Front End Conference 2024

@dletorey @adactio I’m on rural internet at the moment, took over 40s to load with most of the content blocked behind JS download. The content that was there was white-on-white lol

@adactio I’m really annoyed that things in the event space (and wider tech) remain unchanged. Do women even exist?? I’ve never seen any!!!

@adactio 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@Anneke @adactio We love to see it! 🙌

@adactio and this kind of thing is why you’re one of the good ones.