iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Nice and light, of course, as behind the scenes it's all just CSS gradients and translates. Poke around the code here: github.com/rowan-m/rowa...

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 5h

Ages since I made an #opticalIllusion demo, but luckily I saw a video from the master @akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social and needed an interactive web version. For a little Friday fun you can drag that square back and forth and I promise, hand on heart, it never changes colour. rowan.fyi/made/lightne...

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 11h

Have your agent talk to my agent, darling. We'll work something out. Ciao, babe - let's do lunch! 🍸

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 23h

Getting into the latest #SlowHorses and I love the recurring theme that River Cartwright is just a chronically awful spy. Genuinely causes more problems than he solves.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 01/10/2026

And with some late night bug fixing, #Nimbye correctly handles accounts with a different PDA or App view, e.g. Blacksky. Thank you @elvedin.officialawesome.com ! Now to see if I can speed up that sync process even more...

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 30/09/2026

Ok, updated! It's working with my test account and, in theory, should work with any PDS / AppView combination.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 30/09/2026

My gut feeling here is that I'm not properly handling accounts on a different PDS, e.g. Blacksky. Looks like I need to create some test accounts!

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 30/09/2026

Investigating! Do you see an error in the browser console at all?

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 30/09/2026

Living in London this evening.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 30/09/2026

Always check your project name before launch! Anyway, ByeSky (at least my instance) is now #Nimbye. Same functionality, better pun, 100% fewer naming conflicts, and hopefully not offensive. 🤞 (Also my first solid use of @atproto.com `api` + `oauth-client-browser` for a real app!)

nimbye.web.app

Nimbye — Clean up who you follow on Bluesky

Spot inactive, muted, or one-way Bluesky accounts. Score by real interactions, lock favourites, and unfollow in bulk.

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London Web Standards @londonwebstandards.org · 30/09/2026

There are still tickets available for this

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Jhey ʕ·ᴥ·　ʔ @jhey.dev · 29/09/2026

trans<form>er

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 30/09/2026

The default "SUBMIT" text would work for this guy. 😁

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 29/09/2026

I was recently introduced to straw.page, a maximalist Geocities-inspired drag-and-drop website builder. Apparently it's most popular with Gen Z, and it makes me so glad to know this sort of spirit lives on. 😄 🧵 A few examples in-thread.

straw.page

Straw.Page

Straw.Page is the world's simplest website builder. Create unique websites from your mobile device.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 29/09/2026

Works of art, every single one. 💖

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 29/09/2026

I'll be honest, I often just sit there pressing the shuffle button until I find ones I like and bookmark them. rowan.fyi/made/strange-attraction//…

I'm not sure I can describe it. It's like the memory of a form. It almost feels three dimensional, but not quite.

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Rick Viscomi @rviscomi.dev · 29/09/2026

v0.0.191 of Modern Web Guidance is out and it's a big one! *16* new guides covering: web components by @castastrophe.bsky.social Cross-Origin Storage by @tomayac.com security by @rowan.fyi UI and PWA by @jamessw.com and @sturobson.com Wasm by @sbc100.bsky.social github.com/GoogleChrome...

accessible-web-components: Make custom elements accessible by default, setting roles and ARIA state via the ElementInternals ARIA mixin, managing focus with delegatesFocus, and keeping ARIA relationships within a single shadow root.
custom-elements: Define, register, and manage the lifecycle of autonomous custom elements, covering constructor rules, lifecycle callbacks, upgrade timing, attribute/property reflection, and naming conventions.
form-associated-custom-elements: Make a custom control participate natively in forms with formAssociated and ElementInternals, submitting its own value, integrating with constraint validation, and reacting to reset, disable, and state-restore.
prerendering-custom-elements: Server-render a custom element, then hydrate it in place without re-rendering or a flash of unstyled content.
shadow-dom: Encapsulate a component's DOM and styles with Shadow DOM, construct the tree efficiently with HTML templates, and project consumer content with slots.
styling-web-components: Style across the shadow boundary with :host selectors, inherited and custom properties for theming, ::slotted and ::part, and cascade layers and container queries inside components.
web-components: Orientation and cross-cutting principles for authoring and using Web Components, covering Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, templates and slots, Declarative Shadow DOM, styling across the shadow boundary, Form-Associated Custom Elements, and accessibility requirements. Use this guide when building reusable UI components, design systems, or server-rendered custom elements.
avoid-redundant-large-asset-downloads: Avoid re-downloading and re-storing large shared assets, such as AI models, Wasm modules, or fully-bundled JavaScript libraries, that a visitor's browser may already hold from an unrelated site.
load-shared-resources-declaratively: Serve popular, unmodified scripts, stylesheets, and JavaScript modules from a shared cross-origin cache using markup or import syntax alone, witho…

New Guides
migrate-web-app-origin: Transfer an installed web app to a new origin while preserving user configuration and OS-level shortcuts.
local-network-access: Access resources on a user's local network or loopback interface from a public web application.
trusted-types: Help prevent DOM-based XSS attacks by ensuring all untrusted content is sanitized before being inserted into the page.
responsive-table: Build a data table that presents tabular data with proper header semantics, and remains readable and navigable on small screens and with assistive technologies.
spatial-navigation: Implement accessible spatial navigation using arrow keys that works correctly in different layout modes (grid etc)
cpp-on-the-web: Compile C/C++ to WebAssembly using Emscripten

Updated the animated-select-picker guide to advise using standard value attributes on <option> elements to ensure standard form submission behavior.
Updated the branded-select-styling guide to emphasize retaining standard value attributes on <option> elements to preserve default form submission behaviors.
Updated the custom-select-picker-layouts guide with guidance on using :open::picker(select) selectors, customizing the ::checkmark pseudo-element, wrapping <selectedcontent> in a <button>, and managing keyboard navigation and accessibility constraints for grid layouts.
Updated the rich-media-picker guide to clarify that standard value attributes should be maintained on <option> elements to preserve form submission functionality.
Updated the out-of-order-html-streaming guide to document the full suite of static and streaming DOM insertion methods, detailing built-in sanitizer behaviors, WritableStream integration, and processing instruction marker practices.
Updated the sanitize-untrusted-html guide to detail node manipulation patterns using Document.parseHTML() to avoid mutation XSS, explain child preservation rules via replaceWithChildrenElements, and provide aligned DOMPurify fallback configurations.
Updated…

Removed the prevent-text-wrapping guide.

HTML processing instructions: Added Chrome 150 and Edge 150 support in out-of-order-html-streaming.

A four-column table titled "Benchmark Evaluations" comparing unguided versus guided pass rates across 132 tasks and 1,124 assertions.

Row 1: codex_cli (gpt-5.6-sol) achieved a 59% unguided pass rate and an 81% guided pass rate, an uplift of +22 percentage points.

Row 2: claude_code (claude-sonnet-5) achieved a 54% unguided pass rate and an 87% guided pass rate, an uplift of +33 percentage points.

Row 3: antigravity (gemini-3.8-flash-medium) achieved a 65% unguided pass rate and a 91% guided pass rate, an uplift of +26 percentage points.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 29/09/2026

Ooh, I made the beginner error of failing to check if someone already used the ByeSky name 🫣 Time for a quick rebrand... suggestions welcome.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 29/09/2026

Excellent! There's a lot more handling of rate limits now, and presumably that was the culprit.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 28/09/2026

Following way too many people on Bluesky? Want to clean that up? Of course you do. ByeSky gives you a whole heap of configurable options and an easily scannable interface for sorting and unfollowing. I'm calling this v1 so give me your feature requests, feedback, and bugs!

bye-sky.web.app

ByeSky — Clean up who you follow on Bluesky

Spot inactive, muted, or one-way Bluesky accounts. Score by real interactions, lock favourites, and unfollow in bulk.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 27/09/2026

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep going back to old projects if I think they're neat? rowan.fyi/made/strange-attraction//…

Psychedelic snail shell. Acid house escargot.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 27/09/2026

I ordered a coffee-based cocktail and the bartender said, "It's a hot cocktail, so you know." I didn't expect that to mean that they had a little furnace at the bar that was heating a poker up until it glowed whereupon they stuck it into the drink and everything caught fire. Delightful.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 27/09/2026

So it does 😮 I suspect this says more about either my eyesight, reading comprehension, or state of mind.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 27/09/2026

I never thought of scoring my own or anyone else's emoji usage by how violent and intense it was.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 26/09/2026

Someone at the meetup reminded me about Fractint, so obviously I'm going to have to fire up DosBox and try that again. Fond memories of waiting to see if I'd picked the right spot or just got a black screen.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 25/09/2026

All the encouragement I need to keep going on it 😁

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 25/09/2026

I mean, I will talk about this anywhere someone will let me 😁 but this whole evening is really enjoyable. So many passion projects.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 25/09/2026

Thank you @feelingof.london for joining my enthusiastic exploration of the #Mandelbrot Set #fractal. You can see all the bonus locations linked in the deck here! What locations would you name? And let me know about bugs and feature requests.

docs.google.com

Let's get fractious

Let’s get Fractious It’s rowan.fyi

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 25/09/2026

Weird, I still haven't seen this on mine, but I'll keep digging. Maybe I still need to space the calls out a bit more.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 24/09/2026

Hot off the press, bye-sky.web.app now has the lock option along with a bunch of other additions and clean up.

bye-sky.web.app

ByeSky — Bluesky Followings Cleanup

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 21/09/2026

I like it. It's not a social network if you don't socialise.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 20/09/2026

Oh, I really like the detail here. I feel like I'm just using tmux at a really basic level and that session switching pop-up seems really helpful for helping me switch things up to a more powerful configuration.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 19/09/2026

I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.

Grid of logic gate options as Venn diagrams of Tilly Norwood, Tilly Orwood, Tilly Andwood, Tilly Xorwood, Tilly Nandwood, and Tilly Xnandwood

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 19/09/2026

I get to do a demo of #fractious at @feelingof.london this week which has me in an incredibly productive mood. So, I've fixed a major performance issue, cleaned up the UI, and spent the mandatory hour or so picking out a screenshot. Maybe see you on Friday?

$Let's start with the standard part of the description, it's a web app - your standard window furniture, yadda yadda. However, the controls are somehow both slick and playful. Chunky Fisher-Price buttons on an Aston Martin. Very minimal though in order to save space for this ridiculous deep zoom into the Mandelbrot fractal. A weird glowing magenta Mandala, strange cosmic ropes wrapping a center point with the classic Mandelbrot outline just about visible.$

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 18/09/2026

This is so much fun! 🧲😗🤌

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Otto Ojala @ottoojala.com · 04/09/2026

This has already brought me so much joy, thanks to everyone who's signed the guestbook so far <3 Or if it's just one person who's written all these, thank you! :'--)

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 18/09/2026

You're going to have to wait a long time to conclusively say if it *never* touches one of the animals.

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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Google started shipping ad metrics in CrUX overnight, so I’ve added them to Calibre's free Core Web Vitals tool. First look at the Independent: ads take up 20% of the screen, 7.25s of CPU and 5.1MB of data per page. 88% of their readers are on phones. calibreapp.com/tools/core-w...

Calibre's Core Web Vitals report for independent.co.uk showing new advertising metrics from Chrome User Experience Report. Total network usage by ads is 5.10 MB and total CPU usage by ads is 7.25 seconds at the 75th percentile, with the CPU figure trending upward over the last three months.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 15/09/2026

Ooooh, so it is! TIL.

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Glenn Gabe @glenngabe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every site owner running ads (especially a lot of ads) should run this TODAY :) -> Google debuts ‘ad detection tool,’ letting marketers better assess ad experiences in Chrome "We’ve all encountered overwhelming ad experiences on the web,”...

digiday.com

Google debuts 'ad detection tool,' letting marketers better assess ad experiences in Chrome

Google's new tool is geared to help paid-for media teams, both on the buy- and sell-side, better assess audiences' ad-load experiences.

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Rowan Merewood @rowan.fyi · 15/09/2026

I couldn't immediately see a way to view these on mobile, but switching to desktop mode does give me the side navigation.

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