Rowan Merewood
@rowan.fyi
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#DevRel
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#Google
We should improve the web somewhat.
tone-nets.web.app
doesn't have 4-way splitscreen multiplayer (if you know, you know) but it does now have drag-n-drop and emoji instruments! Send me your
#midi
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Have scientists worked out why when you do the laundry it doesn't stay done? This has got to break thermodynamics or perpetual energy or something because it just keeps coming back.
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tone-nets.web.app
is live! Load up a MIDI file and explore a 3D visualisation of the notes and their relationships while the music merrily plays away lighting up the graph as it goes. I'm in a tweaking mood, so get your feature requests in now! Implementation details in the ๐งต
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The Green Party of England & Wales
3 days ago
AN INCREDIBLE RESULT IN HACKNEY! ๐ We have gone from 4 to 42 councillors! And now have overall control of the council led by our new Mayor of Hackney Zoรซ Garbett! ๐
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Loved the R
#visualisations
of
#music
in this paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
so I thought, "Can I (with the robot) convert this to a web app?". Anyway, turns out the
#MonkeyIsland
theme has exactly 1 transition from D2 > E5 in the whole track. Should I clean this up and publish?
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Dave
6 days ago
Experimenting with this ink I found
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In today's #EnglishPlaceNamesAreMadeUp: Yawl. As
in
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Barry Pollard
10 days ago
There's a new
#webperf
measurement API in the works! Check out this post looking at the work
@jason-williams.co.uk
and
@jdapena.bsky.social
have been putting into there Container Timingโavailable as an origin trail from Chrome 148 (rolling out next week).
developer.chrome.com/blog/contain...
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Container Timing origin trial ย |ย Blog ย |ย Chrome for Developers
Try out the Container Timing performance measurement API in origin trial from Chrome 148
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/container-timing-origin-trial
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TechnicallyOwen
10 days ago
This is amazing who would have thought steamed hams would make such a perfect Magnus archives episode
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Steamed Hams But It's The Magnus Archives
YouTube video by TheBulbaBoy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=30BNm2pKndY&si=1yxSX1cuViEk05V7
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#EnglishPlacesNamesAreMadeUp
, part 372. I'm thinking of a day trip: what will I find there?
13 days ago
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Bramus
13 days ago
Blown away by
@andremichelle.bsky.social
's openDAW, which runs ENTIRELY in the browser! ๐คฏ
opendaw.org
So much thought and attention to detail went into this. And it's all Open Source too!
github.com/andremichell...
The web is AMAZING ๐คฉ
#BTConf
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This is what you get if you 4k AI
#upscale
the old Google
#blobEmoji
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16 days ago
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Looks like the
@greenparty.org.uk
have a strong chance of winning in Hackney with
@zoegarbett.bsky.social
and
@hackneygreenparty.bsky.social
, so I'm trying to make it stronger by getting my postal vote in now, joining the party, and telling all of you about it!
16 days ago
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Crom laughs at your terms and conditions.
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18 days ago
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Ooh, I need to see if I can think up something here, but maybe you already have ideas to make concrete and contribute. HTML-in-Canvas opens up some very shiny possibilities.
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Made a starter pack for the
#CityJSLondon
speakers (BlueSky seems to force the author to be in the starter pack though and I'm not speaknig so... ๐ฌ just ignore my face there or point me to a speaker-maintained one!)
go.bsky.app/SFknGEa
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24 days ago
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Heading to
#CityJSLondon
@cityjsconf.bsky.social
Who else will be there? What's are your top session picks?
24 days ago
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Paul Kinlan
28 days ago
I'd love some feedback on a project. I've been building a lot of claw-like agents recently (mem, tools). I abstracted it into an API that works like Anthropic's Agent SDK but built on the back of Vercel's pluggable AI-sdk
github.com/PaulKinlan/a...
Does this work for you? What would you change?
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GitHub - PaulKinlan/agent-do: Provider-agnostic autonomous agent loop for JavaScript. Built on the Vercel AI SDK.
Provider-agnostic autonomous agent loop for JavaScript. Built on the Vercel AI SDK. - PaulKinlan/agent-do
https://github.com/PaulKinlan/agent-do
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Steve Peers
28 days ago
Indeed, EU law *literally* protected Magyar from prosecution by Orbรกn, who wanted to prosecute him - but Magyar is an MEP, and the European Parliament refused to waive his immunity
balkaninsight.com/2025/10/10/m...
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Let's do over 30,000 operations per frame and other statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged. #fractal time! ๐
https://fractious-deep.web.app/?x=-1.3940669426729532470482558569765179397593939&y=-0.000409233353744391156340399402569703707074840653423969694497766&z=19.372&r=-0.094&h=1.600&s=0.300
29 days ago
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It's a long road of progress that means we got to QR codes from passing things down as oral tradition.
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about 1 month ago
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Filippo Valsorda
about 1 month ago
1. The Xteink X4 is so cute 2. It's so cool you can just ask an LLM for a firmware feature 3. To flash the community firmware, you just go to
xteink.dve.al
and click flash, thanks to WebUSB It's so sad Firefox doesn't implement WebUSB. Better UX *and* better security than downloading an exe.
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Tijs Teulings ๐ฆ
about 1 month ago
Needed more proof the age of personal software is here? I got this Xteink X4 pocket e-reader. I flashed it with open source firmware. Then vibecoded a backend running on
@val.town
that pulls `toread` tagged articles from
@kipclip.com
and converts them to epub ...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
about 1 month ago
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isnโt a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. ๐งต (1/5)
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isnโt a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
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I'm not trying to overdose on potato, just get a little bit
about 1 month ago
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Evan
about 1 month ago
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Erika Hall
about 1 month ago
Byte Magazine 1986
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Erika Hall
about 1 month ago
officialnasagear.com
FYI: "Official NASA Gear is a brand created with the sole purpose of supporting NASA employees, so 100% of the proceeds from all Official NASA Gear go directly to NASA employees in the form of morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) activities."
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NASA Gear
The Official Store for NASA Gear, NASA Gifts, and NASA Collectibles
https://officialnasagear.com/
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Andri รskarsson
about 1 month ago
I originally dismissed this as some developer making a joke. But, after watching her explain it and reading the blog-post, I'm stoked to try it, and I just love when my favorite actors turn out to be geeks too!
benobi.one/posts/buildi...
www.instagram.com/p/DWzNnqwD2Lu/
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Phil Sturgeon ๐ณ๐ตโ๏ธ
about 1 month ago
Calling all Astro.js developers. My rewilding charity
@protect.earth
has been trying to replace a horrible Squarespace site with an API powered data centric website. Need a few volunteers to get this over the line. Grab an issue if you can! ๐๐ผ
github.com/protect-eart...
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GitHub - protect-earth/website
Contribute to protect-earth/website development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/protect-earth/website
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Ooh, neat! Another little project to implement on the reCAPTCHA client.
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about 1 month ago
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David Aerne
about 1 month ago
Just released heerich.js, a tiny voxel engine that renders 3D scenes to SVG โฌ Boolean ops โฎ Oblique & perspective ๐ฅ Zero dependencies โ Pure vector output, infinite scaling Named after Erwin Heerich's geometric cardboard sculptures.
meodai.github.io/heerich/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndl...
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Heerich Website Demo
YouTube video by David
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndlbCWs1Tg
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Zack Polanski
about 1 month ago
For whoever needs to hear this I'm the only Jewish person to lead a political party - third largest in the country. The Daily Mail have been & always will be my enemy - they historically supported fascists & continue to do so. I'll take no lectures from them on Antisemitism.
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Niels Leenheer
about 1 month ago
CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.
cssdoom.wtf
Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.
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cssDOOM
DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.
https://cssdoom.wtf
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Ben Evans
about 2 months ago
To celebrate something-or-other, I created a retro CRT using only vanilla CSS! ๐บ
codepen.io/ivorjetski/p...
No images. No JavaScript. No SASS. Fully turn-off-and-on-able! Also a documentary about the making of it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdNH...
@CodePen
#css
#cssart
#cssonly
#frontend
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CodePen TV ๐บ 100% Pure CSS
๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ ๐ซ - 100% No Images โ - Definitely no JavaScript ๐ค - Absolutely no AI ๐ - Only the purest HTML and completely vanilla fresh CSS!! ๐บ...
https://codepen.io/ivorjetski/pen/qEaRjBw
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Mom ... Moooooom! He's posting fractals again, Mom!
https://fractious-deep.web.app/?x=-0.749899952696616683245592668211003086825161&y=0.034357583519253193437367711535584064452566&z=9.158&r=-0.810&h=1.100&s=1.000
about 2 months ago
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Sam Goto
about 2 months ago
I'm putting together a chrome://flag in canaries that enables the FedCM's Ambient UX in the URL bar. I've been using it for a week or so: it is beautiful and I think it will have arrive at an economic equilibrium. Here is the before / after, how to enable it and why we are working on it:
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Impro
about 2 months ago
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Gorgeous graphics and an accessible read!
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about 2 months ago
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Me when I finally get to have that relaxing bath I've been planning.
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about 2 months ago
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Uh oh, these are real. But also not eye-wateringly expensive.
https://www.echefknife.com/products/yoshihiro-shiroko-high-carbon-steel-kurouchi-kujira-whale-japanese-utility-knife-3pc-setwhale-a-b-c-type
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about 2 months ago
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Niels Leenheer
about 2 months ago
What is is this? Oh.. This is just me playing responsive DOOM.css on my phone. Is it playable? Kind of. Does it stutter? Absolutely. Did I just play for hours? Yeah! Detail: The weapon and controls are using anchored positioning to the top of the status bar, because we donโt know how it will wrap.
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Released 1.4.2 of the
#reCAPTCHA
#PHP
client library with support for PHP 8.4 & 8.5. With 88 million installs so far, I think it's fair to say a few of you may have been waiting for that.
github.com/google/recap...
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GitHub - google/recaptcha: PHP client library for reCAPTCHA, a free service to protect your website from spam and abuse.
PHP client library for reCAPTCHA, a free service to protect your website from spam and abuse. - google/recaptcha
https://github.com/google/recaptcha/
about 2 months ago
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Chrome for Developers
about 2 months ago
Go under the hood of the corner-shape implementation to see the engineering challenges of bringing native, non-rounded geometry to the CSS engine โ
goo.gle/46DW9kz
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Damn
@riocinema.bsky.social
that was amazing. Five out of five elements rating. ๐ช๐ซฑ๐ซณ๐ซธ๐
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about 2 months ago
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Petition: localise the plug
#emoji
๐ Two pins? What is this, the 1940s?
about 2 months ago
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Cycle to work: wind blowing directly in my face. Cycle home: wind also blowing directly in my face. Occam's Razor: the only explanation, it's personal. The wind hates me.
about 2 months ago
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Xan Lรณpez
about 2 months ago
Big news! Igalia (
@igalia.com
) is partnering with
@eurosky.social
to develop the next generation of the open social web. Let's stop waiting for others to fix our problems and start fixing them ourselves. We can just do things. More:
www.eurosky.tech/s/Eurosky-Ig...
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RZA from Wu-Tang Clan personally introducing a screening of The Mystery of Chess Boxingโฝ ๐ต I am there and no Ghost Face Killer can stop me.
riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What...
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RZA presents THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXINGย - Rio Cinema
Showing from Wed 18 Mar
https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/WhatsOn?f=2294627
about 2 months ago
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