Software Should Work 2026

This week I had the pleasure of attending Software Should Work (2026), henceforth SSW. This was my first time attending a conference and it was really fun so I thought I would write about it. Firstly, a huge thank you to the organizer, Isaac Van Doren, for making it happen. I'll be going through the days and their talks and anything interesting that happened outside of talks. I won't be trying to summarize the talks but what I took away from them and will be handing out made out demerit points for things I didn't like just because I feel like it. I am not sure how common place it is at other conferences, but diversity was REALLY low. Easily >90% of attendees were white men. You could probably count all the non white men on your fingers. Diversity is not that low at my day job so its a bit confusing to me. If you're a non white man and deciding if you should go to a conference, please do! It really helps make other people like yourself feel included. # First day The conference started…