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My name is Ian Parr, I am a web developer & UX designer. I have adopted a cat (prev. pony, owl). Co-org #FrontEndSheff / #frontendnorth
Also on mastodon.social/@devolute (yay) & twitter.com/devolute (lol)
Refused are finally fucking dead. So glad I got to see these guys play a few years ago, albeit in Nottingham supporting some completely forgettable dross landfill band.
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Refused Play Farewell Show In Their Swedish Hometown
Say it with me now: Refused are fucking dead. Again. The veteran Swedish post-hardcore wreckers played their final concert Sunday at Väven in their hometown, Umeå, concluding a protracted farewell tha...
stereogum.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Congratulations. You are now a |337 h4x0r. #pwnage #Epstein #RoyalFamilyUpdates

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks
Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Got my first Christmas present from the kids. I wonder if dyslexia is genetic? (This shouldn't be allowed)
December 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Imagine being responsible (i.e. paid) for promoting activities in your city and when discussing a Christmas event not putting *any* mention of the year in your online press releases. #SheffieldIsSuper
December 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Can we get a supply of top buttons to the #SaturdayKitchenLive studio, stat - before I have to cancel my licence fee?

Alternatively: fans of middle aged man chest, you're going to have an absolute treat on BBC 1 this morning… fill your boots. #prude
December 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I didn't have 'fonts' on the "things that are woke" Family Fortunes 2025 board, but there you go. ping: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri
The US State Department will be required to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri for official documents, starting 10 December.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Meetup using their yearly roundup as an excuse to push their app. It's my data lads. They think they're McDonalds. Hate paying for this service.
December 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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We're just having a social this month. Taking it easy 🍻 - Come along and join #FrontEndSheff for a low-key xmas hang in town on 18th December:

www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...
18th Dec '25: XHTMLmass Party, Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
No talks this month. But someone of you indicated you'd quite like a social… us too! We'll be at Triple Point Brewery + Bar from 6:30pm on Thursday, 18th December. They se
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December 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
What a thing: LLM-only pages for #AI / ML consumption - aka web developers will do _anything_ to avoid producing semantic HTML: www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-muel...
Google’s Mueller Questions Need For LLM-Only Markdown Pages
Google's John Mueller pushes back on building LLM-only Markdown or JSON pages for LLMs, saying clean HTML and structured data should come first.
www.searchenginejournal.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Love this #PS1 -influenced merch campaign from Bleep. They certainly know their audience: bleep.com/select-your-... #SpookyRichard
November 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
#BBCLauraK asks Piers Morgan about male roles in society and the first thing he mentions is 'The Barbie Movie' - jfc lol aren't the levels of cringe too much to guarantee yet another invite?
November 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The 1.0 launch of #OrionBrowser feels like a good thing for the web. I've been playing with it for a while & it's got a lot of potential. Can't wait for them to churn out the promised Linux version: blog.kagi.com/orion
Orion 1.0 ✴︎ Browse Beyond | Kagi Blog
After six years of relentless development, *Orion for MacOS 1.0 is here*.
blog.kagi.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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#AI is not a substitute for junior developers. Junior developers are how you grow senior developers 🌱
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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This is tomorrow! (Thursday 26th November) - Last #FrontEndSheff Meetup of the year:

🧩 Webcomponents time-traveller Jack Carey
🐛 Caterpillar and code-quality enthusiast @andycarter.dev

🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...
27th Nov '25: Standards, Web Components & Quality Code with a Hungry Caterpillar, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup
Same room as last month: 12.5.08 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE Look for the FES signs up into the lift
www.meetup.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I knew it. I'm not going mad (this time). My neighbourhood is getting rinsed by O2!

It's cool that #Sheffield is doing this.
An innovative mobile coverage checker map is now available across Doncaster and South Yorkshire to help everyone living and working in the region to check their coverage. The project allows residents and businesses to check their coverage enabling informed network choices.
New mobile coverage map goes live across South Yorkshire
An innovative mobile coverage checker map is now available across Doncaster and South Yorkshire to help everyone living and working in the region to check their coverage.
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Just watch Rainman (1988) for the 1st time in 25 yrs. Allegedly about a fella with autism but it takes 57 minutes for a train to appear and then it passes without comment.

Barely recognisable to me: 1⭐/5
(This post made with nothing but love 🚆x)
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Slammed the brakes on last week to avoid peds crossing. Stayed on the bike but I think that's what did my back & I figured out I've ripped my back brake apart. Would have been more economical to just plough on and - with flashing lights / luminous pink jacket - I'd still have the moral high-ground.
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Replaced the RCBOs in my fusebox/consumer unit. Difficult. Mindset of the (possibly drunk) electrician who originally wired it up was similar to the mindset of the web developer with 1MB CSS files.
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Can I get £3,750 off my new Food Puma Crossover? Sure. How about financial help with a new cargo bike?

About that…
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes
Chancellor expected to introduce new limit on how much can be spent on a bicycle through cycle to work scheme
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I went to Sheffield Print fair at the weekend. 2nd year in a row. I love this. Some truly great local artists. Not _quite_ on the same level, but I was inspired to finally finish this in my lads room 🐙 - my 1st mural!
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Chat GPT prompt: "It's November, just put some random military stuff up there" #BBCLauraK #sombre
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
My girl is in a choir. I just bought tickets to see her in concert with her mates. Cost me more than when I saw f'kin Radiohead. She's okay like and I know she doesn't have the complicated history with Israel… but still. They were supported by Asian Dub Foundation. Financially devastated. #parenting
November 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Right. Don't want to get too political, but is this perhaps the first vaguely positive thing that we can pin on TikTok since crawling out of whichever pit of hell the Chinese state apparatus cultivated it in?
Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Announcing our November #FrontEndSheff Meetup (last of 2025):

- Jack Carey takes us 🎶 baaaack in tiiiime with 'An adventure in web components'
- @andycarter.dev uses literary classics to talk about code quality with 'Ulysses versus The Very Hungry Caterpillar'

🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...
27th Nov '25: Standards, Web Components & Quality Code with a Hungry Caterpillar, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup
Same room as last month: 12.5.08 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE Look for the FES signs up into the lift
www.meetup.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Just popping in to leave a quick message celebrating the death of Dick Cheney 🎉
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM