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Right now we’re dropping the CoC link when we go to the list view, which I think we should keep around. Likewise, we’ll need to carve out space for the CSS Tricks permalink.

If we keep more-or-less the same treatment as we’re using for these on the grid view, we end up with something along these lines:

I don’t mind it overall, but I’m not sure the star icon’d link is explicit enough. We could follow the main site’s lead here, if we wanna put a fine point on it:

What say you?

You know I had to do it* to ’em.

*Use Netlify Functions for something

Maybe just a little something along these lines in the conference listings, give or take an icon:

That’ll pop out an (inline, not floating) input[type="email"] on click, POST said email, conf dates, title, location, and description to https://github.com/SparkPost/node-sparkpost in a Netlify function (the Sparkpost API key will live in an environment variable within the Netlify admin).

Very minor but for some locations the country is UK and for others is United Kingdom.
That happens even for the same city.
Would be nice to have United Kingdom everywhere.
Don't mind opening a PR for fixing this if you are ok with that @chriscoyier

Here's an image for reference -

The issue seems to be in the condition where the conference dates is checked.

I would like to see an option to filter location, as I'm in the UK and I can't afford to go abroad to conferences.

Spent a little time tinkering with Netlify functions and chatting with @philhawksworth yesterday, and I think—given the number of conferences in play and that we’re likely to run afoul of rate limiting—we’ll probably want to generate social-style images at build time. Timing-wise, if these are all gonna be populated with info we’ve already got rendering out via Eleventy, we may as well have Eleventy likewise rendering the “pages” that we’ll turn into images with a post-Eleventy-build task that fires up Puppeteer.

This is, I don’t mind saying, markedly less Rad™ than building them dynamically, with a template system living on a subdomain and accepting query params to populate the content. I think it’s gonna end up being a lot more practical, though.

That make sense to you, @chriscoyier?

When going to the RSS Feed at:
https://conferences.css-tricks.com/feed.xml

You get this error:
This page contains the following errors:
error on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

Hi, I would like to see more information on the conferences, like Call for Papers link or information aimed at Conference Speakers if possible.

Also, some pricing and early-bird date deadlines would be excellent!

Thanks!

Just leaving myself a note.

Hi, awesome work you're doing.

I think there should be a form allowing users signup to newsletter or updates.

Thanks

There is one, there just isn't any link.

https://conferences.css-tricks.com/feed.json

Worth adding a soupçon of localStorage here?

points to https://2018.ffconf.org/ instead of https://2019.ffconf.org/

Building locally adds a diff to 2 files immediately upon building:

This is especially odd b/c dist/ is already in the .gitignore file.

Is there an error somewhere in this causing corruption?

• https://smashingconf.com/toronto-2019/
• https://smashingconf.com/freiburg-2019/
• https://smashingconf.com/ny-2019/
• https://2019.jsconf.asia/
• https://www.webdirections.org/design/
• https://www.webdirections.org/code/
• https://www.webdirections.org/wds/
• https://reactfoo.in/2019/
• https://emberconf.com/
• http://us.vuejs.org/
• https://www.reactathon.com/
• https://jsheroes.io/
• https://reactnewyork.com/
• https://www.yglfconf.com/
• https://cssday.nl/2019
• https://2019.jsconf.us/
• https://2019.dotcss.io/
• https://2019.dotjs.io/
• https://nordicjs.com/

This 2020 conf is showing before 2019 confs this time of year just because "May" is before "July". We need to get smarter with how things are ordered.

Or a custom one.

Is there any place where I can access the conferences?

Hi!
When clicking a conference title from the main page I was expecting to be taken to a detail page instead of directly to the conference site. That happens if I click the * icon, but wondered if the title should do the same. There is a direct link to the conference on each card.

Happy to make a PR if that sounds like a plan.

We’re dropping the icon-only treatment for links to conference sites, but we don’t want to drop the entire url in there—the link pointing to https://smashingconf.com/sf-2019/ should be smashingconf.com →.

Do we want this to be something new in the frontmatter:

---
title: Smashing Conference
url: https://smashingconf.com/sf-2019/
urltxt: SmashingConf.com
…

Or should I wire up a custom Eleventy filter that pulls the domain out of the url field? The former is quicker and gives us finer-grained control, the latter means one less thing to maintain.

-webkit-clip-path

Should we just manually add it or is it time for a fancier CSS build process?

I originally stayed away from it because you already have to run the eleventy watcher, I wasn't sure how to augment that to ALSO run a build process that does asset processing. Like having to run two terminal windows for this project seems a little overkill. But since Eleventy already runs BrowserSync, maybe there is a practical way to combine?