this morning in the signal chat for html day i wrote...

want to echo this :) huge thanks to everyone who organized! it's so beautiful to see everyone gathering offline and writing together. feeling very hopeful about the future of the web ❇️💚

it does feel like something is a little different this year. maybe it's more internal, like how i have been treating it. we took it a bit more seriously this year. html energy is not a passing trend or an art project. i think it has legs now and people are gravitating toward it for various reasons.

for me it's a way of showing the world the kind of web we could have: something that balances online and offline time, something where irl social time is prioritized, something that is a learning environment, something that anyone can make their own.