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• The Wilson Project – 25th Anniversary

  Still around. Surprised.

  No Epsilon version. Yet.

• An End of An Era…That I Didn’t Notice

  A Final Message From the Board (IxDA) – https://ixda.org/a-final-message-from-the-board/

  Good-bye. 🙁

• I’m Here…Again.

  I speak of change not on the surface but in the depth—change in the sense of renewal.

  James Baldwin – Letter from a Region in My Mind (1962)

  I’m a front-end developer.
  I will never work in an engineering team again.

  @iwilsonjr (3:06 AM · Oct 11, 2022) – https://twitter.com/iwilsonjr/status/1369817620741033984

• More Upcoming Events…In Virtual (Mid 2021)

  Attending more online events in 2021,

  • a11yTO Camp (Toronto, ON Canada)
    https://camp.a11yto.com/
    May 29, 2021

• The Wilson Project – 20th Anniversary

  April 16th marked the twentieth anniversary of this site. Originally a portfolio site, it became a WordPress blog in 2010 which continues today. The current version, Delta, is called “Charles”.

  History/Site Versions

  Alpha

  Project Name – Alpha
  4/2001 – 12/2003
  Flash (primary)/XHTML (secondary) sites

  Beta

  Project Name – H3 (Name based on John Harrison “H3” marine timekeeper)
  7/2003 – 12/2003
  CSS-only layout/XTHML (started but never used)

  Gamma

  Project Name – Athena
  12/2003 – 1/2010
  CSS-only layout/XHTML/ColdFusion backend

  Interim

  Project Name – Regent
  1/2010 – 8/2013
  WordPress Blog

  The reasoning behind calling it “Charles” and “Regent” –
  https://www.thewilsonproject.com/2010/07/31/call-me-regent-or-whats-in-a-name/

  “Regent” views –
  https://web.archive.org/web/20100213190157/https://www.thewilsonproject.com/

  Delta (current version)

  Project Name – Charles (Named after Charles Darwin)
  8/2013 –
  WordPress Blog (HTML5)

  Link to “Charles”/Delta TWP design screenshots –
  https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewilsonproject/albums/72157618117542936

  https://www.thewilsonproject.com/2010/07/07/mental-steeplechase-hurdle-i/

  https://www.thewilsonproject.com/2010/07/11/mental-steeplechase-hurdle-ia/

• Upcoming Events…In Virtual (Early 2021)

  Last year, I attended only two events – World IA Day DC (pre-lockdown) and IA Conference (virtual). Missed UX Camp DC due to injury.

  Now in 2021, with all conferences online (and most likely not to return to physical locations until next year), I’m attending three events the first half of this year. Missed out of UX Camp DC again (sad!)

  • World IA Day 2021 (Washington, DC)
    https://www.wiaddc.org/
    February 27, 2021
  • 2021 IA Conference
    https://www.theiaconference.com/
    April 28-30, 2021

    and for the first time since 2016, a developer-focused conference

  • Web Directions Hover
    https://www.webdirections.org/hover/
    April 23/30, 2021

• The Void

  These days, I have to use the term “app bulders” instead of “front-end developers” because most front-end developers aren’t working on the front-end anymore.

  One result is that I’m not part of any dev community. These days, I stay with the following communities:

  • UX
  • Information Architecture (IA) or
  • Accessibility

  because they have something of value that I can use across any tech stack.

  The thing I worry about is that developers like me are a) being pushed to non-coding/programming roles or b) pushed out of tech altogether.

  @iwilsonjr (8:09 AM · Mar 7, 2021) – https://twitter.com/iwilsonjr/status/1369817620741033984