26th Mar '26: Microhacking the modern web w\ Alfie & Neil (4x mini-talks)

We're back at SHU in Room 12.4.12 at the Charles Street Building, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE

Look for the FES signs up into the lift and the 4th floor, and please sign-in when you arrive.

This month: Alfie & Neil

Our event is free and inclusive; we welcome people of all backgrounds and experience levels to join. We will be checking in people at the door so be sure to sign up online.

Before you attend, please read our code of conduct: http://bit.ly/fes-coc

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This month we'll be welcoming:

Alfie Renn & Neil Allen - microhacking the modern web (4x talks)

A series of short talks – to match our modern short attention spans – about modifying websites and web-technology to make them more usable and accessible by all. Topics will journey through local events websites, past Internet-of-Things-enabled weighing scales, via free company-bus schemes, around the Xbox game pass, by web-calendars, and end at $subject_to_change.

For each project, we will ask: what did the website fail to do? how did we make it better? how can other people make use of it in a non-technical way? and – what were the existing solutions? Talks will not be related through the technologies used, but through the hobby-based, DIY nature of them, and how small technologies affect the less-technical human experience. No AI has been, is, or will be, involved.

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Post-meetup social
After the talks we'll head to socialise at the nearby Triple Point Brewery + Bar. They serve a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, plus food from Twisted Burger Co. See https://triplepointbrewing.co.uk/ for more details. One of our volunteers will show you the way.

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Running order
6:15pm - Doors open (please tick yourself off on our sign-in sheet as you enter the room)
6:30pm - Welcome
6:40pm - Talks begin
7:30pm – Open mic
7:35pm – Social