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The online home of Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England.
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A workshop on resilient CSS layouts
Oh, hell yes!
Do not hesitate—sign yourself up to this series of three online workshops by Miriam. This is the quickest to level up your working knowledge of the most powerful parts of CSS.
By the end of this you’re going to feel like Neo in that bit of The Matrix when he says “I know kung-fu!” …except kung-fu isn’t very useful for building resilient and maintainable websites, whereas modern CSS absolutely is.
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Rock’n’roll bus stop
webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/
Everything you ever wanted to know about text-wrap: pretty in CSS.
Reading A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.
Soon…
Thursday session
This Saturday, April 12th, is Record Store Day. To mark the occasion, Salter Cane will be playing a stripped-down set at Union Music Store in Lewes. That’s the place that Jamie used to run, so it has a special place in our hearts.
Liza Lo will be playing at midday.
Salter Cane are on at 1pm.
If you’re in the neighbourbood, please swing by! We’re really looking forward to playing a mix of some old songs and some brand new songs from our brand new album.
<a href="https://saltercane.bandcamp.com/album/deep-black-water" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Deep Black Water by Salter Cane</a>
Tuesday session
aftermath.site/ai-video-game-development-art-vibe-coding-midjourney
Grim reading from the games industry, especially if you work at Shopify where the CEbrO has just mandated that you have to use this shite.
Oh man, this tune by Adrian is so good!
Happy 25th anniversy to A Dao Of Web Design by John Allsopp:
https://alistapart.com/article/dao/
Still relevant after all these years!
Went for a stroll around The Shire this afternoon.
Ah, Shopify! Where would Breitbart be without you?
Now the CEO of Shopify demands that every developer there uses “AI” to enable swastika merchants to make even more moolah.
(Hi to my “friends” who work there!)
Welcome back, Jason!
I’m sitting comfortably in my chair at home while my brother is running a 300 mile race through Arizona.
- Basic functionality should work on any device that can access the web.
- Extras and flourishes are treated as progressive enhancements for modern devices.
- The UI can look different and even clunky on older devices and browsers, as long as it doesn’t break rule #1.
snook.ca/archives/accessibility_and_usability/snook-dreams-of-the-web
If we were to follow Jiro’s and his apprentices’ journeys and imagine web development the same way then would we ask of our junior developers to spend the first year of their career only on HTML. No CSS. No JavaScript. No frameworks. Only HTML. Only once HTML has been mastered do we move onto CSS. And only once that has been mastered do we move onto JavaScript.
Here’s the main problem I’ve found with generative AI, and with “vibe coding” in general: it completely sucks out the joy of software development for me.
I hate the way they’ve taken over the software industry, I hate how they make me feel while I’m using them, and I hate the human-intelligence-insulting postulation that a glorified Excel spreadsheet can do what I can but better.
Happy Caturday from Coco!
Thursday session
Wednesday session
Heydon is employing a different tactic to what I’m doing to sabotage large language model crawlers. These bots don’t respect the nofollow rel value …so now they pay the price.
Raising my own middle finger to LLM manufacturers will achieve little on its own. If doing this even works at all. But if lots of writers put something similar in place, I wonder what the effect would be. Maybe we would start seeing more—and more obvious—gibberish emerging in generative AI output. Perhaps LLM owners would start to think twice about disrespecting the
nofollowprotocol.
webkit.org/blog/16587/item-flow-part-1-a-new-unified-concept-for-layout/
I really like the idea of unifying some layout values in CSS. If you’ve got any feedback, please chip in!
Monday session
Went for a ramble in the countryside and felt Persephone’s return.
Same.
