"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.
During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and having just completed IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, the thought popped in my head that joyful web design should be a named thing, since many of us spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp doing just that.
I mentioned it to @jamesg.blog at a break between talks, we discussed it a bit and agreed that joy is a good motivator, and as creatives we both like creating things that are joyful to experience, and ideally joyful to create.
That and a zoom chat today was inspiration to name that specific joyful experience “web joy”.
It’s a nod to “moon joy”, a mere weeks old phrase many have heard and been inspired by, coined by Mission Control science officer Angela Garcia, and transmitted (spoken) by CAPCOM on shift, Jacki Mahaffey, in reply to the Artemis II astronauts on mission (as noted in a NASA AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/1stjt7m/comment/ohw9g9l/). You can hear the “Copy, moon joy.” expression in context at the start of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHUvedAssyE
Much thanks to James for his encouragement to blog “web joy”.
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4 conferences across 3 cities in 10 days: * 4/20 W3C AC Meeting (Huangzhou) “Challenging how we see the web” future of web browsers panel participant (remotely from San Francisco, on the evening of 2026-04-19) * 4/21-23 Mozilla Leadership Summit (Boston) * 4/25-26 IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf * 4/27-28 beyond tellerand Düsseldorf
Somehow squeezed in a few personal events too: * 4/20 Bostom Marathon cheering — managed to hike a half marathon myself that day! * 4/26 Balu Brigada concert in Cologne * 4/29 Cologne Cathedral tower climb
In total:
7 events across 4 cities in 12 days including travel time.
Saw, heard, spoke/designed/coded with so many inspiring people. So many notes, photos, and a few videos. Overall an incredibly positive (if exhausting) experience. It was highly illuminating contrasting the different sets of people, talks, practices etc., some overlapping, across all the events. An incredibly valuable overview perspective.
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My Reachy Mini arrived today! Finished about half of the assembly and ran out of steam. Should finish tomorrow night. Looking forward to giving it a personality! #robotics
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Had a bit of a technical snafu last night when rebuilding the ops pipeline for my site. Ended up overwriting production with staging data, and the backups were failing. Thought I was hosed, but thankfully I had a secondary backup that I had forgotten about.
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