John Allsopp

Are you or your company working on anything related to OAuth/OIDC or building anything that needs trust & safety (moderation)? If so you can currently hire me: emelia@brandedcode.com I'm a freelancer on US eastern time. #oauth #oidc #hireme

It baffles me that Apple Maps on iOS moves hit targets around quite deliberately while onscreen. It’s is the absolute zenith of form over function and while seemingly small I think speaks volumes about Apple

Just scheduling this so it posts DEEP into the North American timezone www.instagram.com/reel/Dei1tQI...

Tomorrow, October 16th, marks Practical Accessibility's third birthday. 🎂 To celebrate, I am gifting everybody 25% off for the next 48 hours 🎁 Individual and team licenses alike! The discount is automatically applied during checkout—no code is needed. 👉🏻 practical-accessibility.today Enjoy! #a11y

Very much looking forward to this one. 15 years #btconf. 20th November. Join us! beyondtellerrand.com/blog/fifteen...

Introducing Multi-Agent Self-Supervision (MASS): Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence 🧵 Blog: pub.sakana.ai/mass/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.12176 Code: github.com/SakanaAI/mass

The Pet Shop Boyd are perhaps my most cherished group over the last 40 years of my life Alan Turing is among the people I admire most. The two are now combined in this new Album en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_f...

The cost of introducing and paying off tech debt has changed very, very much and I don't even know most of us have the time and space to think about what it means Tech debt has been so central to the software craft for decades, and now... how much does it matter?

How far ahead browsers fetch lazy images: • Chrome: 1,250px on 4G, 2,500px on 3G, 6,000px (!!) on 2G • Firefox: 600px, on any connection • Safari: one viewport. Lazy iframes: 0px, they wait until on screen

Any Fedi friends participating in tonight’s Sydney Bike Rave? @shermozle @stufromoz ?

This is really interesting for future AI driven UI work www.openui.com/blog/oui-1

if you wanna be a good trans ally, hire us to good jobs we are way more likely to face financial insecurity, make 60 cents on the dollar compared to our cis counterparts, and a lot of us are *insanely* talented

Urgent to figure out something better than the subscription model for long form writing. You can’t read anything online anymore

Conferences done for another year. Next one: June 2027. For now, a bit of a break from organising and hosting and back to focusing on design research and writing.

Run a meetup or a community for people building with AI? December 6–13 is the best week you'll ever have to run it — NeurIPS is in Sydney, AI Engineer Sydney is on. We'll list it, promote it, send people your way. Costs nothing, stays yours. aiweek.com.au/host

Why are anthropic models in particular obsessed with rooms?

AI Week Melbourne had two hackathons, one from Google DeepMind. Vercel brought their Sydney AI Meetup down with Maincode. Microsoft, Atlassian and Zendesk all hosted events. Sydney is Dec 6–13, with NeurIPS in town. Want your company in it? Now's the time to talk. aiweek.com.au/partners

Most of AI Week Sydney hasn't been announced yet. The conference and the Hack Day are locked in. The meetups, workshops and evening events land between now and December. Sign up and we'll email you as each is confirmed: aiweek.com.au

the first in a 3-part series on @honeycomb.io's AI norms and values is up. this one is called "How We Do Business at Honeycomb." www.honeycomb.io/blog/ai-norm... values are not supposed to be aspirational slogans. values should codify how things actually work. this is how it works at ours.

AI Week Melbourne brought two dozen AI events to the city in a week. So we're bringing it to Sydney: December 6–13. Conferences, hack days, meetups, workshops — from AI Engineer, our partners, and maybe even you. NeurIPS is in town the same week. aiweek.com.au

Run a meetup or a community for people building with AI? December 6–13 is the best week you'll ever have to run it — NeurIPS is in Sydney, AI Engineer Sydney is on. We'll list it, promote it, send people your way. Costs nothing, stays yours. aiweek.com.au/host

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats State of CSS 2026: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com discuss the results of State of CSS 2026 www.igalia.com/chats/state-...

AI Week Melbourne had two hackathons, one from Google DeepMind. Vercel brought their Sydney AI Meetup down with Maincode. Microsoft, Atlassian and Zendesk all hosted events. Sydney is Dec 6–13, with NeurIPS in town. Want your company in it? Now's the time to talk. aiweek.com.au/partners

Most of AI Week Sydney hasn't been announced yet. The conference and the Hack Day are locked in. The meetups, workshops and evening events land between now and December. Sign up and we'll email you as each is confirmed: aiweek.com.au

This is the coolest article I've ever written. Genuinely. All of you should read it.

Here's a podcast we recorded with @democrats.org.au back in 2023 about it: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/k...

AI Week Melbourne brought two dozen AI events to the city in a week. So we're bringing it to Sydney: December 6–13. Conferences, hack days, meetups, workshops — from AI Engineer, our partners, and maybe even you. NeurIPS is in town the same week. aiweek.com.au

Every year someone asks why we don't run multiple tracks. Honest answer: multi-track quietly hands you a worse day. Single track means the whole room shares the same three days. Sydney, 26–28 Aug: webdirections.org/uxaustralia/...

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

Most of AI Week Sydney hasn't been announced yet. The conference and the Hack Day are locked in. The meetups, workshops and evening events land between now and December. Sign up and we'll email you as each is confirmed: aiweek.com.au

Big new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library for talking to hundreds of different LLMs - reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses support, server-side tools, smarter logging and a whole lot more simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/n...

Kicking it in Sydney at Homebrew Agents Club tonight @johnfallsopp.com @webdirections.org

Homebrew Agents Club is tonight — Blackwattle, 76 McEvoy St, Alexandria, from 6pm. A couple of short demos, plenty of good conversation, food and drinks on us. homebrewagents.club/meetups/2026...

Homebrew Agents Club is tonight — Blackwattle, 76 McEvoy St, Alexandria, from 6pm. A couple of short demos, plenty of good conversation, food and drinks on us. homebrewagents.club/meetups/2026...

I’m exploring the mental health effects of AI coding. This is a super quick (blazing fast), anonymous survey. Please fill out and share so that the responses will be well rounded. forms.gle/dpD8Tk1QnXAz...

Homebrew Agents Club is back Tue Aug 4, 6–9pm — Blackwattle Bar & Brewery, Alexandria. Monthly night for people building with agents. No talks, no pitches. Free, food and drinks on us. RSVP: homebrewagents.club/meetups/2026...

Homebrew Agents Club is back Tue Aug 4, 6–9pm — Blackwattle Bar & Brewery, Alexandria. Monthly night for people building with agents. No talks, no pitches. Free, food and drinks on us. RSVP: homebrewagents.club/meetups/2026...

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Most conference programs this year have an AI talk. Ours has about six, and they don't agree with each other. That's roughly where the honest conversation is right now. UX Week, Sydney 26–28 Aug: webdirections.org/uxaustralia/...

LLMs can help us write talk proposals, but first think about who your talk is for, and what you want them to takeaway. "Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it 'to whom it may concern.'" — Nancy Duarte www.lenareinhard.com/articles/how...

Design Research: nine talks, one day. Sydney, Wed Aug 26 — the day before UX Australia, same venue, and the bundle covers all three days. Full schedule now live. webdirections.org/design-resea...

I am a huge fan of Erin's work. She is consistently ahead of the curve in terms of probing at and understanding how technology affects actual humans. Very happy that she is digging into this space, and we hope others will support this work too: opencollective.com/atprotocolde...

"It's 10 out of 10 for AI Engineer, it's 10 out of 10 for Web Directions and John Allsopp." — Ron Au, Canva, at AI Engineer Melbourne. AI Engineer Sydney: Dec 7–8. Tickets + CFP open now. webdirections.org/ai-engineer

UX Australia is a month away and the full schedule is live. Twenty sessions, two days, single track — so you'll see all of it. Sydney, Aug 27 & 28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/...

Submitted to HN: The state of AI agents, in numbers https://www.getreadyforagents.com/statistics/ Article URL: https://www.getreadyforagents.com/statistics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052107 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Melissa Voderberg (Publicis Sapient) at Design Research 2026: What Can't AI See? Ethnographic research in a post-screen world. Sydney, Wed Aug 26. webdirections.org/design-resea...

engineer away the slop ghuntley.com/slop

I’m so sick and tired of the entire tech world resting on the massively undervalued work of folks in open source, in education, community building doing unpaid or drastically underpaid standards work. It goes on. It’s been happening for decades. It’s just do pronounced now.