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Robb Owen - Independent Creative Developer

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From interaction design to scaleable design systems, single-page apps to something more experimental with WebGL. I help awesome people to build ambitious yet accessible web projects - the wilder, the better. From time to time I like to release open source projects to help the wider web development community. Below are two of my most popular releases. I'm a big fan of Visual Studio Code, but when I couldn't find a colour scheme I liked, I decided to roll my own. SynthWave '84 was the result. Since I first tweeted about its development the theme has proven to be wildly popular, passing one million downloads in September 2022. Tornis is a minimal JavaScript library that watches the state of your browser's viewport, allowing you to respond whenever something changes. Think of it as a data store for your viewport, giving you access to screen size, mouse cursor position, scroll position, gyroscope and more. Rekishi is a minimal wrapper for the History API that provides additional pub/sub fun

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