Joe Hart

WDC2025 - October 10 2025, Watershed, Bristol, UK WDC is the web conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year. With great speakers and attendees alike.

We're just over 2 months away from WDC2025 taking place on October 10th 2025.

Will you be there?

webdevconf.com

Don't wanna get my hopes up, but that new Battlefield 6 trailer looks great.

These last few weeks have been crazy hectic but I'm hoping to get some time this weekend to write up some blog posts on:
- how much fun @frontendnorth.bsky.social was
- learnings from running my first DnD campaign finale
- all the fun stuff I learned about stain glass while visiting Yorkminster

A picture of radio buttons

The problem doesn't always lie with the designs, I know a lot of react devs who would build the below with button elements, or even divs.

Just because it came up at work again today:

90% of being a frontend engineer is starting at designs and going "Yes, but SEMANTICALLY its a radio button"

DPA generator PostHog's cutting-edge data processing agreement (DPA) generator

I've only just been told about PostHog and am already a total sucker for their tone of voice.

Their Fantasy or Taylor Swift Data Protection Agreement generator is just divine https://posthog.com/dpa

bus that says “You may be entitled to PostHog: (989) POST-HOG a PostHog” on the side

this is the most bluesky thing i’ve ever seen

@elibelly.dev I haven't been to a conference in so long and I don't know what the cool kids are talking about these days

Web React people, has anyone used shadcn/ui in a production app? What was it like? And if not, if you were to start a new app with a react component library which would you use? #web #react

Thoughts on Pillars of Eternity I finally played through Pillars of Eternity, and despite enjoying it the experience overall was lacking.

New Blog Post: https://www.joehart.co.uk/posts/2025-01-22-thoughts-pillars-of-eternity/

It was my New Year's resolution to write more and here we are near the end of January finally doing it 😅

TIL about 'system-colour' in CSS. You can set other elements like a fake pseudo element to stuff like HighlightText. But annoyingly it doesn't inherit.

Sorry but the biggest myth in design systems and in digital products more broadly is that something is always better than nothing. “Just get it out there and we can iterate” will be the death of me I swear tg

Anyone else just listening to the barbie soundtrack on loop while working this week?