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The online home of Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England.
IndieWeb
thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-inclusive-web-of-progressive-enhancement/
This is a great history of the idea of progressive enhancement:
It is an idea that has been lasting and enduring for two decades, and will continue.
wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/
Monday session
Remember when every company rushed to make an app? Airlines, restaurants, even your local coffee shop. Back then, it made some sense. Browsers weren’t as powerful, and apps had unique features like notifications and offline access. But fast-forward to today, and browsers can do all that. Yet businesses still push native apps as if it’s 2010, and we’re left downloading apps for things that should just work on the web.
This is all factually correct, but alas as Cory Doctorow points out, you can’t install an ad-blocker in a native app. To you and me, that’s a bug. To short-sighted businesses, it’s a feature.
(When I say “ad-blocker”, I mean “tracking-blocker”.)
Thursday session
Starting 2025 as I mean to continue …with a cat on my lap.
Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir a chairde!
CSS wants you to build a system with it. It wants styles to build up, not flatten down.
Truth!
Sunday session
Reading Earth Abides by George R. Stewart.
Nollaig shona daoibh go léir a chairde!
Playing Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight (slip jig) and Patsy Geary’s (jig) on mandolin with Jessica on fiddle:
https://thesession.org/tunes/953
Having a proper Cork Christmas with spiced beef, like!
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference between “blog” and “blog post” (as well as “podcast” and “podcast episode”).
- Violates User Expectations
- Causes Motion Sickness
- Reduces Accessibility for Disabled Users
- Inconsistent Performance Across Devices
- Impairs Usability for Power Users
- Increases Page Load Times
- Breaks Native Browser Features
- Makes Scroll Position Unclear
- Adds Maintenance Overhead
- Disrespects the User’s Control
Sunday session
Oh, this is a very handy service from Paul—given the URL of an RSS feed that only has summaries, it will attempt to get the full post content from the HTML.
Hanging out with a good doggo.
Reading The Fates by Rosie Garland.
Galway session
Going to Galway. brb
Wednesday session
Another handy list of where you can get works published by A Book Apart authors.
plainvanillaweb.com/blog/articles/2024-09-30-lived-experience/
I hold this truth to be self-evident: the larger the abstraction layer a web developer uses on top of web standards, the shorter the shelf life of their codebase becomes, and the more they will feel the churn.
