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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)
Also on mastodon.social/@devolute (yay) & twitter.com/devolute (lol)
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
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...
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
Love this #PS1 -influenced merch campaign from Bleep. They certainly know their audience: bleep.com/select-your-... #SpookyRichard
#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
#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?
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
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
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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...
🧩 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
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...
🧩 Webcomponents time-traveller Jack Carey
🐛 Caterpillar and code-quality enthusiast @andycarter.dev
🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...
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.
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
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.
It's cool that #Sheffield is doing this.
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)
Barely recognisable to me: 1⭐/5
(This post made with nothing but love 🚆x)
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 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)
Barely recognisable to me: 1⭐/5
(This post made with nothing but love 🚆x)
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
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.
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
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.
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...
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
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...
About that…
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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
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!
Chat GPT prompt: "It's November, just put some random military stuff up there" #BBCLauraK #sombre
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Chat GPT prompt: "It's November, just put some random military stuff up there" #BBCLauraK #sombre
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
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
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?
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 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?
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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...
- 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
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...
- 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...
Just popping in to leave a quick message celebrating the death of Dick Cheney 🎉
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Just popping in to leave a quick message celebrating the death of Dick Cheney 🎉
Nothing so pathetically tragic as being a being an Interpol (supported by Bloc Party) person, living in a Bloc Party (supported by Interpol) town.
November 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Nothing so pathetically tragic as being a being an Interpol (supported by Bloc Party) person, living in a Bloc Party (supported by Interpol) town.
Today I hit 2x art exhibitions in #Sheffield - Comparisons are bad form, but life is short:
- A Leg Named Brian: Memoirs by Pete McKee - Earnest, heartfelt & TIL a kids football could have a class system of its own
- Modern Toss: 21st Anniversary - Dismissive, disinterested. It felt like home, yeah?
- A Leg Named Brian: Memoirs by Pete McKee - Earnest, heartfelt & TIL a kids football could have a class system of its own
- Modern Toss: 21st Anniversary - Dismissive, disinterested. It felt like home, yeah?
October 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Today I hit 2x art exhibitions in #Sheffield - Comparisons are bad form, but life is short:
- A Leg Named Brian: Memoirs by Pete McKee - Earnest, heartfelt & TIL a kids football could have a class system of its own
- Modern Toss: 21st Anniversary - Dismissive, disinterested. It felt like home, yeah?
- A Leg Named Brian: Memoirs by Pete McKee - Earnest, heartfelt & TIL a kids football could have a class system of its own
- Modern Toss: 21st Anniversary - Dismissive, disinterested. It felt like home, yeah?
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Luke's slides for his excellent @expo.dev #ExpoRouter talk at #FrontEndSheff : expo-router.lhowsam.com
Slidev - Expo Router
"## Expo Router\n"
expo-router.lhowsam.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Luke's slides for his excellent @expo.dev #ExpoRouter talk at #FrontEndSheff : expo-router.lhowsam.com
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Tickets still available for #FrontEndSheff this Thursday (30th Oct). We gots:
- Alex Efthymiou talking all about routing in #nextjs
- Luke Howsam on routing using
@expo.dev
Looking forward to seeing you all this week for a thoroughly spoopy time 🎃
www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...
- Alex Efthymiou talking all about routing in #nextjs
- Luke Howsam on routing using
@expo.dev
Looking forward to seeing you all this week for a thoroughly spoopy time 🎃
www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...
30th Oct '25: Trick or Treat: Router special - Next.js Patterns & expo-router, Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup
Room change alert!: We're at SHU in Room 12.5.08 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE - that's just one floor
www.meetup.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Tickets still available for #FrontEndSheff this Thursday (30th Oct). We gots:
- Alex Efthymiou talking all about routing in #nextjs
- Luke Howsam on routing using
@expo.dev
Looking forward to seeing you all this week for a thoroughly spoopy time 🎃
www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...
- Alex Efthymiou talking all about routing in #nextjs
- Luke Howsam on routing using
@expo.dev
Looking forward to seeing you all this week for a thoroughly spoopy time 🎃
www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...
Wake up babe, a new reason to hate Justin Trudeau just dropped. Or alternatively to hate Katy Perry. At this point I'm really not sure which way round it is.
Wish them well I suppose? (This account is now Hello magazine)
mhtntimes.com/articles/kat...
Wish them well I suppose? (This account is now Hello magazine)
mhtntimes.com/articles/kat...
Katy Perry Confirms Romance With Justin Trudeau After Months of Rumors
Pop star Katy Perry and former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau make their romance official with a cozy Paris date on her 41st birthday.
mhtntimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Wake up babe, a new reason to hate Justin Trudeau just dropped. Or alternatively to hate Katy Perry. At this point I'm really not sure which way round it is.
Wish them well I suppose? (This account is now Hello magazine)
mhtntimes.com/articles/kat...
Wish them well I suppose? (This account is now Hello magazine)
mhtntimes.com/articles/kat...
#BBCLauraK asks political car crash victim Kamala Harris whether the King of the United Kingdom inviting Trump to tea felt "Cheesy or queasy".
She'll be standing in for Alan Carr this week on Rupaul's Drag Race next week to invite the girls to play 'Cheesy or queasy' there too.
She'll be standing in for Alan Carr this week on Rupaul's Drag Race next week to invite the girls to play 'Cheesy or queasy' there too.
October 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
#BBCLauraK asks political car crash victim Kamala Harris whether the King of the United Kingdom inviting Trump to tea felt "Cheesy or queasy".
She'll be standing in for Alan Carr this week on Rupaul's Drag Race next week to invite the girls to play 'Cheesy or queasy' there too.
She'll be standing in for Alan Carr this week on Rupaul's Drag Race next week to invite the girls to play 'Cheesy or queasy' there too.
They arrested that nutter who the accidentally police let out. Tabloid editors must be furious. Reckon if he'd been better at hide-and-seek then they'd have been able to have a nice easy week "speeking there brainz" about what this means about all sorts of issues. Sorry, lads.
October 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
They arrested that nutter who the accidentally police let out. Tabloid editors must be furious. Reckon if he'd been better at hide-and-seek then they'd have been able to have a nice easy week "speeking there brainz" about what this means about all sorts of issues. Sorry, lads.
Wes Streeting MP is going to put iPlayer on tonight and watch back #BBCLauraK 's "look at your tiny red bar" comment whilst… [FULL POST AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS]
October 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Wes Streeting MP is going to put iPlayer on tonight and watch back #BBCLauraK 's "look at your tiny red bar" comment whilst… [FULL POST AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS]