SydCSS' 9th birthday! (in-person) 🎂 🎈

SydCSS is turning 9 this year! Not only will this be our birthday celebration, it'll also be the night before Web Directions Summit and we are honoured to have a couple of speakers from their conference to come and share their knowledge with us. (Psst.. you can use the code sydcss to get super early bird pricing for any ticket to their conference.)

This event page is for people who can attend IN-PERSON. If you want to attend remotely, please sign up on our online event page.

Doors open at 5:30pm and talks start at 6pm.

✨ Our Speakers ✨
🎤 Title: New in CSS in 2022
⭐️ Rachel Andrew | rachelandrew.co.uk | @rachelandrew

In this talk Rachel will give a rundown of all the new things that have come to CSS during 2022, plus those things that have become available to us across all three engines due to the Interop 2022 initiative.

Rachel Andrew works for Google as a technical writer, and content lead for Chrome Web DevRel working on web.dev and the Chrome Developers site. She is a front and back-end web developer, author and speaker, author or co-author of 22 books including The New CSS Layout and a regular contributor to a number of publications both on and offline. Rachel is a Member of the CSS Working Group, and can be found posting photos of her cats on Twitter as @rachelandrew.

🎤 Title: Less absolute positioning with modern CSS
⭐️ Ahmad Shadeed | ishadeed.com | @shadeed9

When Ahmad works on a component that needs absolute positioning, he asks himself: is it necessary? He started to notice a few use cases where using position: absolute isn’t required. In this talk, he will walk you through how we can replace position: absolute with modern CSS like CSS grid, flexbox, and other little things.

Ahmad Shadeed is a Freelance Design Engineer from Tulkarm, Palestine. He enjoys being in the intersection of design and code and works as a designer where he designs & builds UIs for websites, web apps, and anything in between. He wrote a book on debugging CSS, writes extensively on CSS on his blog ishadeed.com, coined a term called Defensive CSS (defensivecss.dev), wrote about accessibility (a11ymatters.com), and RTL (right to left) text styling (rtlstyling.com).

🎤 Title: L is for Literacy
⭐️ Henri Helvetica | @HenriHelvetica

Understanding, or literacy in web performance is as important as the four basic language skills. ‘L is for Literacy’ is a lively look at the performance lexicon and technology, backed by enlightening data all will enjoy.

Henri is a developer who has turned his interests to a passionate mix of site performance engineering with pinches of user experience which he shares at WebPageTest by Catchpoint as Head of Developer Community. When not reading the deluge docs, streaming, or profiling sites in his favourite tool, Henri can be found contributing back to the community running meetups and focusing on running the fastest 5k possible! #DevsWhoRun

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Web Directions - Founded in Australia in 2004, by long time web industry figures John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin, (and now run by John), Web Directions conferences bring together the web industry’s leading experts from around the world to educate and inspire our attendees.