May meet-up ツ
Busy days with teaching and work – so this one’s a short one ツ
November meet-up:
wed 5/11/25 from 5:30pm in the Mitre
Next week’s out next meet-up – and it is the day that we have our MP concept workshop with our current students – so if you have been through this journey yourself, it would be lovely if you could come along and share your story ツ
State of the Browser 2026
This is quite a few months away still but you can get your tickets now ツ
Dave Latorey is the organiser of the London Web Standards meet-ups and the State of the Browser event. Each time he tells us how worrying it can be to manage the finances ~ it’s a costly affair and he can only manage it all if he knows the tickets are selling and the money is coming in to cover all planned outgoings.
Organising events is a labour of love, time-consuming and stressful – and buying your tickets early will eliviate some of that stress. And this event is always amazing! ツ
So on Dave’s behalf – here’s my plea to you to get your tickets early!
open culture
I’m pretty sure you’re familiar with this site but I thought it’s worth including for anyone who does not know about it. I follow them on Mastodon and they are posting some amazing material: for example, take a look at these old illustrations of root systems or these wonderful Drawings of Flora & Fauna
The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889) by Ernst Haeckel
And there are also an amazing amount of free online courses available.
And here’s one beautifully designed page on Ernst Haeckel and his work, created by Lena Svintsova – you should definitely have a look ツ
A guide to creating accessible PDFs using free tools
With many people and organisations looking to move away from Microsoft, LibreOffice is getting a lot of great reviews lately – and it seems it can even tackle the accessibility of PDFs ツ Here’s a great article that shows us how, have a look.
Perplexity
Ai is here to stay of course, and I am still not quite sure how to use it properly, or in a way that my conscience will be happy with. Saying that, as I teach and as we try to keep our topics up to date, I am trying to experiment with different AI tools.
Not sure where you’re at with your exploration of AI tools overall – but in case you are still in the exploration stage, I thought this might be worth sharing.
Thanks to Erika for the tip: Perplexity Pro is free for students for 12 months – offer will end in October, pretty good deal ツ
And for those of you no longer a student, you could use my referral link to get 1 month free. ~ not quite as good of course, but worth a try if you’re curious ツ
The Comet browser can become another one to add to your list of testing browsers. I can’t tell you what it’s like myself – but Erika tells me that her sons love the fact that (at the moment at least) the ads on YouTube are blocked ~ nice ツ
And as much as I might not want to like some of these tools (due to their creators’ lack of ethics mainly) – I have to admit that I do like Perplexity’s logo and the brand guide…
I hope to see you all next week ツ
All the best, Prisca <3