Ovi Demetrian Jr

UX/UI designer and web design engineer. Writer of blog posts about these things and some stories. Founded blocksedit.com CMS and indieaisle.com tools for indie creators.

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Blocks Editblocksedit
2025-06-26

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

blocksedit.com/content-code/de

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2025-06-22

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

distinctivequality.com/blog/ap

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2025-06-18

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

developer.apple.com/videos/pla

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2025-06-11

“…the right time to abstract isn’t when you see duplication — it’s when you understand the pattern.”

terriblesoftware.org/2025/05/2

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2025-06-03

How Blocks Edit makes it easy to setup editable menus for a website.

blocksedit.com/content-code/ho

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Jake in the desertjake4480@c.im
2025-05-31

"Websites have evolved over the years, but in the name of evolution, there seems to be mistaken thinking that the process of building a website needs to get more complex, using Javascript frameworks and modern backend systems; when at the end of the day, browsers still only need static HTML content to interpret."

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#HTML #design #WebDesign

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2025-05-29

About Good Internet:

"Good Internet is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation."

This is fun. I love it. goodinternetmagazine.com/about/

Ovi Demetrian Jrovidem
2025-05-28

By sure to check out the full issue, available in both digital and print!

goodinternetmagazine.com/issue

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2025-05-28

I’m happy to be a part of the inaugural issue of @xandra‘s Good Internet Magazine! Here’s my article on how the evolving tech for building a website is heading in the wrong direction.

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2025-05-28

this is it -- GOOD INTERNET magazine is LIVE, BABY~ 🥂 🎊 🥳

goodinternetmagazine.com/
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i present the spring 2025 issue of GOOD INTERNET, featuring stories by @binarydigit, @internetarchive, @Leilukin, @greg, @surprisetalk, and SO MUCH MORE!

with only 6.5 hours to go before my surgery, the website is now launched! you can order physical or digital copies of the magazine! :) there are some initial stories on the website now, but more are coming over the next week, so keep an eye on your RSS feeds!!

‼️quick note: pre-ordered print editions will begin shipping out this week (!!!) and digital editions will go out this week as well to emails!

🙏 THANK YOU SO MUCH to EVERYONE who helped with this. thank you to the contributors (like @robb/ @echofeed, & @adam/ @omgdotlol). thank you to the writers, thank you to everyone who thought about this project, shared it with others, and got the word out. i am so so so stoked to bring y'all this.

🕛 issue 2 is in the fall! :) get your submission ideas in!!

#html #css #web #indieweb #smallweb #socialmedia #internet #enshittification #website #webdev #webdesign #neocities #indie #zine #coding #code #personalweb #blog #blogging

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Thomas Vander Walvanderwal
2025-05-21

Yesterday I stumbled upon “What the hell are ppl doing?” humans.maxcomperatore.com

I need to close the tab as each time I bump into it I get sucked in.

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Indie Aisleindieaisle
2025-05-11

Being indie means being scrappy and taking a lean approach to doing things, including being on the web.

indieaisle.com/guide-indie-web/

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Matthias Ottmatthiasott
2025-05-10

Figma (Sites) creating inaccessible, non-semantic div soup? I’m not surprised at all. That’s basically the main point of the talk I just gave at . Figma is for painting beautiful pictures of websites. Not for making websites. We make websites with semantic HTML, declarative CSS, JavaScript for the things only JavaScript can do, and a bit of ARIA. That’s how this medium works. That’s the material.

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Blocks Editblocksedit
2025-05-05

3 simple CSS tricks for added form validation customization.

blocksedit.com/content-code/mo

Ovi Demetrian Jrovidem
2025-05-05

Walking covers so many aspects of our health, including mental health, and with creative thinking.

ovidem.com/blog/benefits-of-wa

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Jim Nielsenjimniels
2025-04-24

Apparently you can punch in any ridiculous phrase and appended “meaning” to it and Google’s AI will give you a result

simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/23/

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2025-03-27

Is this the beginning of the end of Big Social Media? Let’s look at the crumbling that’s already started, where things are likely headed, and why the momentum isn’t likely to let up. cmswire.com/digital-marketing/ #digitalmarketing

Ovi Demetrian Jrovidem
2025-03-20

“Architects don’t just sketch fantasy structures and expect engineers to figure it out.”

uxdesign.cc/figmas-not-a-desig

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2025-03-16

Any reading of a car’s surroundings needs Lidar to work properly.

youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ

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2025-03-14

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