Ian Ovenden
@ianovenden.bsky.social
Front-end specialist passionate about a web for everyone 🌏 Powered by Rock 🎸 Mexican food 🌮 and coffee ☕. Likes to play video games 🎮 and fall off bikes 🚲
Very clear and concise article on using Web Workers to improve React performance.
www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/react-...
www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/react-...
Unlocking Web Workers with React: A Step-by-Step Guide | Rahul's Blog
Rahul's Blog
www.rahuljuliato.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Very clear and concise article on using Web Workers to improve React performance.
www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/react-...
www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/react-...
Had this open in a tab for a few days and finally getting around to reading it. Excellent summary of how we've arrived at prioritizing the developer experience over user experience. Increased complexity = unnecessary friction. Very interesting read. Thanks @jono.id !
We used to build websites.
Now we build pipelines, frameworks, and hydration strategies - just to publish text.
This isn’t progress.
It’s complexity, by design.
We need to escape the JavaScript framework trap.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...
Now we build pipelines, frameworks, and hydration strategies - just to publish text.
This isn’t progress.
It’s complexity, by design.
We need to escape the JavaScript framework trap.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...
JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.
www.jonoalderson.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Had this open in a tab for a few days and finally getting around to reading it. Excellent summary of how we've arrived at prioritizing the developer experience over user experience. Increased complexity = unnecessary friction. Very interesting read. Thanks @jono.id !
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Journal: The web on mobile
Technically, websites can do just about anything that native apps can do. And yet the actual experience of using the web on mobile is worse than ever.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21728
Technically, websites can do just about anything that native apps can do. And yet the actual experience of using the web on mobile is worse than ever.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21728
February 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Journal: The web on mobile
Technically, websites can do just about anything that native apps can do. And yet the actual experience of using the web on mobile is worse than ever.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21728
Technically, websites can do just about anything that native apps can do. And yet the actual experience of using the web on mobile is worse than ever.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21728
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Today's announcement of the blueprint for modern digital government includes a welcome focus on agile, user-centric service design as a cornerstone of transformation.
A blueprint for modern digital government (HTML)
www.gov.uk
January 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Today's announcement of the blueprint for modern digital government includes a welcome focus on agile, user-centric service design as a cornerstone of transformation.
Great to see this kind of international Government collaboration 👍🏼
designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2025/01/14/p...
designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2025/01/14/p...
Progressing international design discourse in Helsinki, Amsterdam and beyond
After the success of the Helsinki Conference we’re preparing our next events for 2025. First off is the User Needs First International Conference in Amsterdam in April.
designnotes.blog.gov.uk
January 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Great to see this kind of international Government collaboration 👍🏼
designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2025/01/14/p...
designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2025/01/14/p...
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An explanation, for tonight
![A cartoon by Stephen Collins. Script as follows:
1
THE SCENE: is BBC Television centre or wherever that is these days. HARRY STYLES is getting out of a limo to enter a studio. An autograph-hunting FAN accosts him.
Also, a DATE STAMP appears ‘on screen’, like it used to do in the X-files, reading:
OCTOBER, 2024: Maidstone Studios, England
FAN 1:
That’s Harry Styles!
FAN 2 [Approaching Harry]:
Can I have a selfie, Harry?
2
FAN:
What are you doing at Maidstone Studios on this finbe day in mid October, Harry?
3
HARRY STYLES:
Why, I’ve come here in mid-October to record ‘Jools Holland’s New Year Hoote-‘
4
*FSHW*
[Harry Styles is suddenly vaporised by a LASER BEAM]
5
[We see the culprit; a hi tech flying DRONE has zapped Mr Styles to death. The drone has a camera eye on the front of it]
6
[Cut to: JOOLS HOLLAND in his Hootenanny lair, watching a screen which has just alerted him to the elimination of Styles]
[Legend on screen]:
ARTIST ELIMINATED
HOLLAND:
Goddamn it
7
HOLLAND:
Why can’t they keep their mouths SHUT?
8
HOLLAND:
Tim Davie!
TIM DAVIE [Director General of the BBC]:
Y-yes Jools?
HOLLAND:
Who’ve we got left for this year?
10
TIM DAVIE:
The Boomtown Rats, one of Sister Sledge and Marc Almond
HOLLAND:
Almond *again*?
11
TIM DAVIE:
We’re running out of artists to call, sir…
M-must we keep killing… so many…?
HOLLAND:
You know the rules, Davie. The secret of the Hootenanny must be protected at all costs. All who divulge it…
12
HOLLAND [close up on his evil face, eye twitching]:
Must be eliminated](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibtcfluywrhxbnpooa5dcxr526hq474qcbio63di5dbctszzacezq@jpeg)
December 31, 2024 at 10:09 AM
An explanation, for tonight
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Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark
November 15, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark
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🌠 For years, the #1 most requested feature in CSS was Container Queries. We wanted them so badly!
Well, they’ve arrived… and none of us are using them. 😂
I think I know why, and I just published a new blog post that will hopefully change that!
Check it out:
www.joshwcomeau.com/css/containe...
Well, they’ve arrived… and none of us are using them. 😂
I think I know why, and I just published a new blog post that will hopefully change that!
Check it out:
www.joshwcomeau.com/css/containe...
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries • Josh W. Comeau
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as...
www.joshwcomeau.com
November 4, 2024 at 4:36 PM
🌠 For years, the #1 most requested feature in CSS was Container Queries. We wanted them so badly!
Well, they’ve arrived… and none of us are using them. 😂
I think I know why, and I just published a new blog post that will hopefully change that!
Check it out:
www.joshwcomeau.com/css/containe...
Well, they’ve arrived… and none of us are using them. 😂
I think I know why, and I just published a new blog post that will hopefully change that!
Check it out:
www.joshwcomeau.com/css/containe...
Listening to the #githubuniverse livestream - keep hearing "home assistant" as "Homer Simpson" 😆 Neat functionality though ⚡️
October 30, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Listening to the #githubuniverse livestream - keep hearing "home assistant" as "Homer Simpson" 😆 Neat functionality though ⚡️
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #891,916!
September 18, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #891,916!
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@priyanca.bsky.social and I have had 25 replies to our state of discoveries survey so far, thank you!
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State of Discoveries
Hello! We are doing a talk at SDinGov 24 (Service Design in Government) about discoveries.
We want to understand your perceptions of discoveries and challenges commonly faced.
Our talk is aimed at d...
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July 11, 2024 at 12:01 PM
@priyanca.bsky.social and I have had 25 replies to our state of discoveries survey so far, thank you!
We would love to get as many views as possible so please take a look: forms.gle/zUSbvQnC5pDB...
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We would love to get as many views as possible so please take a look: forms.gle/zUSbvQnC5pDB...
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Another beautiful cover from Edge magazine 🤩 Loved Hades, so looking forward to reading about @supergiantgames.bsky.social follow-up
May 16, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Another beautiful cover from Edge magazine 🤩 Loved Hades, so looking forward to reading about @supergiantgames.bsky.social follow-up