Leaving CSS Day

In 2024 I decided to quit the conference business by the end of that year. After being involved with 30 conferences, both voluntary and as an entrepeneur, it was about time to focus on other things. For the first time ever, sweating my ass off, I took the stage, for a speech I had prepared during the breaks that day. Later that year I'd still help out with performance.now() for the last time, but the CSS Day audience was my precious.

Can we have a warm hand for Miriam as well please, she did a great job today, thanks!

By the way, Miriam does amazing work in the CSS Working Group, but her funding stopped recently.

If we want her to continue to work on CSS, please take a moment to support her on Open Collective, via this QR code.

Come on, I'll wait.

And of course a warm hand for Jeremy, thanks for MC'ing yesterday!

Thanks also to all speakers for your wonderful talks this year.

I stood there; a bold dude, wearing a khaki shirt, holding a microphone somewhat confident, behind a lectern with two laptops on it. Behind me some other people—conference speakers, some wearing their lanyard—were standing and looking at me.. Maybe wondering who the hell this guy was..

So, for those of you who've been here multiple times, this is a weird situation..

In the past ten years I'd run away at this point, and let ppk take over the microphone.

I've written some words in the break just now, so I need to read them out.

Like a pro. From a laptop. Behind a desk.

Not a lot of people know this, but this conference is being run by two people.

And we've run about 25 different conferences together, in the past 13 years.

You could say...ppk is the foreground color in this story, and I'm the background color.

Or more like a box-shadow.

A box-shadow shitting box-sized bricks at the moment, since speaking isn't my thing.

As you're probably noticing :)

The reason for this small change, is we're having a bit of fun this year, and it's our 10th anniversary party (yay!)

And also because, after this edition, I am stopping with organising CSS Day (aaw)..

And I wanted to personally thank all of you for 10 amazing editions of this lovely niche conference.

So...thank you all for attending! I'm going to miss all of this :)

Also, thanks ppk for all those years working together. It's been a fun ride! :)

But, luckily, and the most important thing, CSS Day is continuing.

And I will finally be enjoying all talks as an attendee!

Thank you! :)

Add a comment