Front End Sheffield

This Thursday 29th October: Modern design - Can we leverage design systems to avoid the chaos that can often be associated with #AI use? Can people escape from their 'box'? Courtney has answers and we're sure there will be some open questions too from any #WebDesign #FrontEnd and #Figma fans.

📈 Another benchmark hit: We reached 1,500 members on Meetup dot com. Even though the platform may very well be full of people who don't actually exist, we still find new members attending every month and it's always great to meet real new people! Check our profiles for upcoming events.

Remember cancelled Courtney's modern #AI #WebDesign workflows talk due to ridiculous levels of summer? Well we're back on Thursday the 29th October now that things have decided to calm it down ☀️ Tickets available for her rescheduled talk in the Owen Building, SHU: www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

This Thursday, Richard Oliver Bray will share which tooling & techniques he utilises to ensure that #AI tooling like Claude Code is working for him. Richard is well versed in making tricky topics accessible. 1 talk of 2 on the 24th September at SHU, Owen Building. 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

We're re-opening the Web Components Vs frameworks battle at our 24th September event. Hayleigh Thompson will make the case that with just a little shift on what we think a 'component' is, the rewards of interoperability are worth fighting for. 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh... #WebComponents

We hope you didn't turn up tonight… sorry if you did. We typically take a break over the summer to work on our suntans†, but we'll be back in September with a Web Component and agent bullying festival of FE. (†this may not be entirely true)

Our September 24th meetup will welcome Hayleigh Thompson from Shopify who may well try to bury the #WebComponents Vs frameworks argument! Also, Richard Oliver Bray returns to talk about an agent-friendly dev experience that works for him (and for Claude Code) #AI 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Nathan from @storyblok.com drops some *triple* double-diamonds on us and is letting us know how developers - not just designers - can take advantage of this approach. #FrontEndSheff

30th July: 🤔 Nathan Richards - A Design Thinking Approach to using AI in Engineering 📢 Sian Atkinson - How ‘good communication’ looks completely different to everyone 🎶 PLUS, for our social month we're heading off to 'Pattern Club' at Sidney & Matilda 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh... #FrontEndSheff

📟 Find yourself on a completely different page to colleagues? Sian Atkinson shows how good communication looks different to everyone & how to articulate knowledge effectively. w\ 'Design Thinking' talk, its a *comms special*: July 30th, Owen Building #Sheffield Hallam www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

1st speaker for our July 30th event is Nathan Richards from @storyblok.com: He'll give an overview of the #DesignThinking framework & walk through processes he personally uses to solve complex problems & deliver complex features at Enterprise level (with #AI help) 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Very sad to cancel this - Thursday is just too damn hot for learning ☀️ We'll be back on the 30th of July instead and will rescheduling Courtney's talk for as soon as we can.

In a fast moving space, Courtney Kyle is helping us to bridge the gap between vibe-coded design chaos and expert-built software with critical maintainable features. See what works, what doesn't and how #DesignSystems have become more important than ever: #FrontEndSheff www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Our 28th May #FrontEndSheff meetup is this Thursday - feat. Thomas Baker, David Warrington and their insight into styling systems and TypeScript validation. More excitingly: we're sending our organisers a bit earlier to Charles St. to figure out the aircon 🧊 www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

David Warrington from #Shopify also joins us next Thursday 28th May: He'll be taking @zod.dev beyond basic data validation with this #TypeScript -first validation library. (Picture possibly unrelated. This isn't David, nor does it represent his presentation style… TBC) #FrontEndSheff #JavaScript

1st up at our May 28th Meetup is Thomas Baker: 👓 He'll make the case that we should drop vanilla #CSS completely & embrace Sassy CSS. Whether or not that's in its #SCSS form or - for those of us who are terrified of { brackets } - Sass form… he's sure to let us know! www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Our 28th May #FrontEndSheff: 🕶️ Thomas Baker introduces us to Sass - and makes the case against just using vanilla #CSS 🛍️ David Warrington from #Shopify declares #TypeScript isn't enough… not without the @zod.dev validation library 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Fancy trying speaking in the Yorkshire region? Upset by end (pause?) of @heypresents.com wonderful string of conferences? Come chat to @devolute.bsky.social or @katiefenn.bsky.social at the after-party if you fancy speaking at #FrontEndSheff in Sheffield to our lovely welcoming community #AllDayHey

Azeez is amongst the bravest of all our speakers (!): Explains the theory *and* shows us the code behind his AI-driven holiday planning tool, breaking down each step utilised. #FrontEndSheff

This Thursday 30th April at Sheffield Hallam University: Our #AI / #Workflows and #Infrastructure / #Performance talks - free tickets still available: www.meetup.com/front-end-sh... #FrontEndSheff

🎶 If we took a holiday \ Took some time to celebrate \ Just one day out of life \ It would be, it would be so nice 🏖️ In short: Azeez will take you through his #Typescript -built #AI agent that plans a travel itinerary & help us understand how agents actually work. 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

iPhone 27? £40 pm mobile bill? Still struggle to lookup cinema times, despite being in the city? Martin from the #SYMCA / #SYDIT may have answers, thanks to bin lorries 🚛 & the Mobile Coverage Map. Is #webperf important in an age of 5G? 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh... cc. @techsy.bsky.social

April 30th we welcome: 📍 Martin Owens from the South Yorkshire Digital Infrastructure Team introduces the #SYMCA mobile coverage map 🤖 Azeez Roheem builds a #Typescript #AI agent from scratch that plans your trips Our next #webdev #webdesign #Sheffield #meetup: www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

A slightly avant-garde #FrontEndSheff last night, but one of our attendees said it best: > "I feel excited about being a dev again now thank uuu" Alfie & Neil put on a great show for us: highlighting the range of tools + skills we have as frontend devs to fix… well, loads of stuff. Thanks lads!

This #FrontEndSheff talk is welcoming comments. Brave. Also remember we have a CoC lol x guestbooks.alifeee.net/microhacking/

I love @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy 's #Sheffield events bot (@events@events.sheffield.alifeee.net on Mastodon) - it's genuinely how I find stuff to do with the kids in town. Leveraging #ActivityBot and some selector-heavy scraping. #FrontEndSheff

Thu (26th Mar): Spaces available for 'Microhacking the modern web' w\ regular attendees Alfie & Neil. They're tackling #Sheffield events, post- #IoT hardware, buses & who knows what else? It's DIY & hobbyist-driven as we take a break from the corp. AI-rollercoaster! www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

There are some friends of #FrontEndSheff / @frontendnorth.bsky.social involved with this. They say this is the final one, but we hope not. Are you going? We are! Tickets still available.

Tickets for our March #FrontEndSheff event now available: Regulars Alife & Neil are cramming in 4x (!) talks about using our #WebDev skills to make real services better for real people #microhacking www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Slides from @kitation.co.uk 's fabulous #FrontEndSheff gaming Vs #a11y talk last week are now available here: fantastic-cat.static.domains/plateauofweb...

If you see one talk that bridges the worlds of #accessibility compliance & video games this year, make it this one on Thursday 26th from @kitation.co.uk: 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh... Also, we'll be giving an overview of what's coming up @ #FrontEndSheff in 2026.

@nvmuk.bsky.social Are you aware of this? Our superstar #a11y speaker @kitation.co.uk is linking the worlds of video games and accessibility for online designers & developers - free event, just 800 meters from your gaff! Appreciate any promo x: bsky.app/profile/fron...

Join us at our #a11y -focused event on February 26th: 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh... @kitation.co.uk will use video games as a comparator to look at how we can introduce fresh ideas into our work as the compliance-lead approach has run out of steam. #FrontEndSheff #Sheffield

In our first meet of 2026, @kitation.co.uk will examine how web compliance works. 👾 Using video games as a comparator, we'll explore alternative approaches to accessibility & how we can introduce fresh ideas into our work. 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh... #FrontEndSheff

We got this tomorrow - Thursday 18th Dec. Happy to meet friends new and old for our end-of-year #FrontEndSheff bash:

We're just having a social this month. Taking it easy 🍻 - Come along and join #FrontEndSheff for a low-key xmas hang in town on 18th December: www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

At #FrontEndSheff tonight for @andycarter.dev talking about Ulysses and the Very Hungry Caterpillar

Celebrating an incredible 10 years of All Day Hey! with our final conference. 
 Help us go out with a bang and join on a journey through new techniques, accessibility, web animation, and human connection in a world of increasingly weird and wonderful AI. ti.to/hey-presents...