LDNUG November 2026 with Ana Rodrigues & David Whitney

Our next meetup will be on November 3rd at Dojo's canalside offices in the Brunel Building, right next to Paddington Station. We've got two fantastic talks lined up from two awesome speakers, plus food, drinks, plenty of time to chat & network with fellow attendees, and quite probably a drink or two at the pub afterwards. Ana Rodrigues: I Spared No Expense A talk about the projects I built for my own tiny corner of the web that I did not need, that nobody asked for, and that I built anyway despite my bank account telling me not to. Some of them still work. All of them have a story. No expense was spared. For anyone who loves personal websites, silly side projects, and tech built for the joy of it rather than the job of it. There's code on screen throughout, but the real point is a nudge to remember that programming can be a hobby, not just a career. Ana works as a front-end developer for the agency Hactar. She started coding as a teenager building fan sites, and has been working as a front-end developer for the last 13 years. Nowadays, Ana spends most of her free time experimenting on her personal blog and is particularly interested in ethics, IndieWeb, sustainability, plants, cooking, privacy and all things CSS. David Whitney: Why not both? Bringing Modern Web Development to .NET This talk is about the process of building three "what if" experiments that turned into a real projects to bring popular libraries, languages and tools to the .NET ecosystem.