Ovi Demetrian Jr

Accessible personal websites are easier than you think A lot of people in the small web space have a tendency to get intimidated by the idea of making their website accessible. This, of course, results in many websites being inaccessible for many people. But when you’re just one person, meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is

Also this one from the new edition:

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/accessible-personal-websites-are-easier-than-you-think/

Is a lovely partner to mine from the last issue:

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/can-accessibility-be-whimsical/

Good Internet A magazine for the non-corporate and independent web, use of code as an art medium, and web development enthusiasm of hobbyists and professionals alike.

Hey, the Autumn/Winter 2025 issue of the Good Internet magazine is out?

Go read/subscribe!

https://goodinternetmagazine.com

#GoodInternet #GoodInternetMagazine #indieweb #essay

Web design without design software Designing directly in the browser, using only HTML and CSS As a web designer, having designed and built many websites, there are times where I have a design fully realized in my head that I would sk...

My article is out in the latest issue of Good Internet Magazine! It’s about using the web browser as a web design tool and how anyone can do it, no matter their level of knowledge.
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#indieweb #smallweb #personalwebsites #webdesign #html #css

Automated navigation active state Simple Javascript snippet for automatically giving items a selected state.

Having an active state for the current page in your navigation helps with usability, for your users to know where they are within your website’s architecture. Setting it up however, can get complicated.

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#webdesign #tutorial #code

2025 year in review Blog posts from the mind of Ovi Demetrian Jr.

My 2025 year in review. Work I’ve done, blog post highlights, and recommendations for this past year.

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Physical and mental stress Blog posts from the mind of Ovi Demetrian Jr.

How I learned to be more aware of the stress put on my body and mind from the after effects of my car accident.

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#health #stress #therapy

From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025 In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools.

2025 in AI: Reasoning illusion, copyright settlement, sycophancy, suicide, vibe coding, and an economic bubble.

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#ai #tech #2025

Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore — Smashing Magazine CSS Masonry is almost here! Patrick Brosset takes a deep dive into what this long-awaited feature means for web developers and how you could make use of it in your own work.

A good overview of things you can now do with just HTML and CSS that you no longer need a Javascript library for.

www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/12/maso...
#webdesign #webdev #html #css #javascript

Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

📝 I'm a curmudgeon for doing menu items without icons (unless you can give a good reason to include them).

And apparently Apple used to recommend the opposite of what they now do in Tahoe.

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-i...

Web form design guide Designing digital forms that are consistent and efficient to setup.

Our new guide is on modern form techniques for designing and building web forms that follow best practices.

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#forms #webdesign #webdev #techniques #tips

Design your website like a nice restaurant I see the same argument play out over and over online: someone complains that all websites look the same and someone else says that’s a good thing since it makes them easier to use. But it’s not all o...

“The best of these restaurants have a distinct character that enhances your dining experience.”…”But despite their differences, we always manage to find a table, order food, eat, go to the bathroom, and pay our bill.”

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#webdesign #web #design

How to be more agentic On a supposedly difficult thing

Court rejection, seek real feedback, increase your surface area for luck, and assume everything is learnable.

usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

#indie #work #freeagent #indieweb

Multi-step form without the overhead Using built-in form GET method to pass data from one page to another without complicated code.

How to set up a multi-step form without the overhead that’s normally required

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#webdesign #frontend #forms #surveys

“Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry.”

glaze.cs.uchicago.edu
#ai #art #tools #artists #copyright

How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface - TidBITS Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design can be hard to read in certain situations. If you encounter any issues, here’s how to adjust the transparency and other visual effects across macOS, iOS, watc...

If you’re having performance issues on your Mac like I am because of Liquid Glass, there’s a way to disable it that helps!

Enter this command into Terminal and restart:

defaults write -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES

tidbits.com/2025/10/09/h...
#apple #macos #liquidglass

AI for generating truth Using AI to collate information and generate art for expression continues to raise questions.

Some thoughts on the on-going uses of AI for information and art.

distinctivequality.com/blog/ai-gene...
#ai #art #copyright #tech

reply to this with yr cool or very uncool personal site, i’m wrapping up my slides for @webdevconf.com tomorrow and need a few more examples :)

distinctivequality.com

Simplify Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.

“I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. […] That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.”

Mic drop by @adactio.com 👏
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Essential metadata for sharing a page The metadata options you need for social media and other apps.

A rundown of the metadata options you need for social media and other apps.

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#webdesign #socialmedia #sharing #opengraph

AltStore State of the Union Link to: https://rileytestut.com/blog/2025/10/07/evolving-altstore-pal/

“Apple’s cowardly abandonment of ICEBlock
… is perhaps the best evidence yet that Apple’s arguments in favor of their App Store being the single source for third-party software do not hold water.”

Our newest thing: Creator Recommendations. Earn points for recommending creators and get recommended in return!

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#indie #indieweb #personalwebsite #blogging

Listing essentials A list of related items — blog posts, products, events, etc.

Listings offer an easier way for users to browse through collections that may otherwise be overwhelming to go through.

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#webdesign #designinspiration #contentdesign

New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t) YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

How AI thinks: it doesn’t.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=-wzO...

Article content essentials Different ways to format content elements in an article.

Different ways to format and break up content within an article like a blog post.

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#webdesign #contentdesign #designinspiration

Why does work expand? Ever heard that “work expands to fill the time available”? Let's dig into why that’s only half the story — and what Parkinson’s Law gets wrong about how real work (and real people) actually operate.

“I’ll admit it: I’ve started to enjoy having AI assistance in coding. But what I enjoy is the reduction in typing I have to do. I am still having to do all the thinking. The thinking is still taking the bulk of the time.”

www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0...

#coding #ai #work

Feature content essentials Sections of skimmable content for visitors to get an overview of what you have to offer.

Feature content sections provide a format for content to be skimmed through.

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#webdesign #designinspiration #contentdesign

Apple design talks Highlighted design videos from Apple's yearly WWDC event.

A few highlighted design talks from Apple WWDC events of the past few years.

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#design #talks #apple #wwdc2025

Explore prompt design & safety for on-device foundation models - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer Design generative AI experiences that leverage the strengths of the Foundation Models framework. We'll start by showing how to design...

A good overview video of AI prompts and how to work within their limitations, from Apple’s WWDC sessions.

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Duplication Is Not the Enemy We’re taught to eliminate duplication at all costs. But the wrong abstraction is far more expensive than a little copy-paste. Here’s why.

Fantastic explanation of the challenges of developing in a codebase over time

My fave line: “Every new requirement makes it slightly worse, but never quite bad enough to justify a complete rewrite.”

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