Robb Owen

I have a very experienced friend who is on the lookout for their next opportunity, but can’t post about it.

They’re highly experienced and talented in anything developer relations in the web and dev tooling space with a particular passion and skill for education.

Drop me a DM or email!

Boyfriend in bed meme: "I bet he's thinking about continvoucly morging" "I could be continvoucly morging rn"

And she'd be right

「カンファレンス開催ノウハウ」を公開します | blog.jxck.io コロナ禍が明け、カンファレンス文化も再開し、コロナ前かそれ以上の頻度で多くのカンファレンスが企画されるようになりました。しかし、コロナ中の断絶によってノウハウの継承が途絶えた部分もあり、後発のイベントが既知の失敗を重ねている場面も見られます。そこで、カンファレンス主催者の有...

I’ve noticed there are a lot of conferences in Japan. A group of organizers is sharing a practical ‘conference playbook’ so new events don’t repeat the same mistakes.

blog.jxck.io/entries/2026...

It's morgin' time

Style Headings using the CSS :heading pseudo-class Use the :heading pseudo-class to style all headings (h1-h6) with a single CSS rule. Reduce repetition in design systems and component libraries while maintaining consistency.

🎉 New Blogpost 🎉

Style Headings using the CSS :heading pseudo-class

CSS just got tidier.

Say goodbye to verbose selector groups and hello to cleaner, more intentional styling for your design systems.

www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/sty...

#CSS #WebDev #FrontEnd #WebDesigin

a person in a yellow shirt is jumping in the air . Alt: a person in a yellow shirt opening the curtains to be blasted off their feet by sunlight

Well, well, well...look who finally decided to show up

[stares directly into the sunlight]

And as for the less mundane bits, realising the homunculi with stop motion puppets was a stroke of genius. There's a real physicality to them (particularly in the later episodes) that is really charming

Just finished watching Small Prophets. Absolutely loved it. Mackenzie Crook has such an incredible talent for making the mundane feel magical

The first thing I did last year was run | Henry From Online On the eve of the new year, 2025, I was possessed by the spirit of adventure, and drove to Wyoming in the middle of the night. Hijinks, as is eternally their way, ensued.

here‘s a website that tells a story about an ill-starred and foolhardy road trip :)

henry.codes/writing/the-...

Wishcessibility - Nic Chan No recycling was contaminated in the creation of this post.

📝 Wishcessibility

What do recycling and accessibility have in common?

www.nicchan.me/blog/wishces...

I had never seen Detectorists and then managed to watch all of it over the last couple of weeks. So good

I loved it and I'm still sore that Campo Santo were never able to release In The Valley of Gods

Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking...

✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders

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matthiasott.com/articles/web...

Stop generating, start thinking - localghost Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...

your terminal will never be:
"an interface designer"
"an accessibility expert"
"a design engineer"
"a frontend wizard"

these jobs are for humans, stop trying to take them from us

jp game developer in the 90's: so we're making a bass fishing game

composer: oh hell yeah i got you [adds "drop the bass" sample]

jp game developer: no no like the fish

composer: what fish?

After all… why not?
Why shouldn't I build a new website?

You're the Reason I Don't Want the World to End

Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag Read the book online for free.

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.

accessibilityforeveryone.site

The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

Phantom Obligation Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.

I love this thoughtful and beautifully presented piece by @terry.social.godier.me.ap.brid.gy (found via @tyfromtheinternet.com’s newsletter), on the anxiety of unread counts and the questionable evolution of app design.

“Phantom obligation — the guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do.”

I'm so sorry for your loss

Chekhov's technical debt

This is what peak physical Media looks like.

Available - Damon Charles Studio

Hey folks - I unexpectedly have some availability from next week onwards, so give me a shout if I can help you with :

- Ux/ui design
- Design direction
- Visual identity
- Inclusive design
- Design systems

Find out more at damoncharles.com

Yeh, I can definitely see why it's so highly thought of! I don't think it'll be taking over from any of the popular frameworks, which is a shame, but at the same time I'm not sure it needs to. It's pretty mature and easy to use so if it fit for a personal or client project, I'd be happy to use it

It's also funny how my client work has made dipping back into Elixir less daunting. Over the last year or so I've been contracting with a company who uses Elm for their frontend and that has helped me finally wrap my brain around the whole functional programming thing

I have been messing about with Elixir and Phoenix again and I have to say it's oddly refreshing to use a convention-based batteries-included framework after so many years of the JS ecosystem. Have yet to give Liveview a proper go though

Piracy meme: "you wouldn't use the platform"

Nice platform you get there. Would be a shame if someone were to use it

Strangers By Spring Strangers, By Spring is a blog about escapism, romance, and rebirth. Consider: It is January in western Tokyo. Plastic fir tre...

“it's curious how, in those liminal moments as a season of your life draws to a close, you feel as if you might live forever.”

new warmth in the dead of winter, a special guest appearance on the blog by our friend @robbowen.digital. i hope you enjoy it 🤍

strangersbyspring.com/2026-01-20

Who else is up buying silly domain names in the hopes that it will fix them.