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The online home of Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England.
IndieWeb
Tuesday session
CSS finally gave the web its own grain.
And the real crazy part is that my bad decades-old code still renders fine in today’s latest web browsers! I would be sad if it didn’t, but I also wouldn’t be surprised. How is this stuff still backwards compatible!?
How much of your software from 20 years ago runs on your devices today
Salter Cane, fifteen years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZTMy1-VgIA
Come along to the Prince Albert in Brighton one week from now to hear how we sound today: https://saltercane.com/tickets
Met up with brainbox Steven Pemberton for coffee and a chat.
Thursday session
I try to keep on doing what I do in order to stay sane. I keep on teaching about the wonderful web to my students, even if nobody will ever hire a talented, creative, junior developer again. I keep on teaching about the consequences of the open web, even if it’s harder and harder to find anything open in this monopolised web anymore. And I do that because I still care.
Wednesday session
Ag fanacht…
Dolly sa Daingean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qXFoNrqi3Y
Fuair sí fáilte mhór (as Gaeilge) agus ansin chann sí le Steve Cooney ar an ngiotár.
For me, libraries are about books. Worlds undiscovered, ideas to devour. But they are so much more. For others they offer a lifeline. A place to learn, to connect with the community, to access vital resources. They have meant all these things to me over the years.
People of Brighton (and beyond)—come to the Prince Albert on Saturday, September 5th to see the most excellent Salter Cane in action!
Tickets will be £10 on the door, but they’re £8 in advance:
Reading What We Can Know by Ian McEwan.
Eavesdropping on the mandolinists preparing for this evening’s performance.
Acqui Terme
Going to Turin. brb
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
zeldman.com/2026/08/18/ebb-meet-flow-intrinsic-design-in-a-nutshell/
Instead of chasing an ever-changing number of fixed breakpoints, utopian or intrinsic design follows the web’s intrinsic ebbs and flows via fluid type scales that are always in tune with the screen on which they’re viewed
Wednesday session
The story of Fray:
In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; this was the website that made me want to make websites.
Tuesday session for Liam’s birthday
All the items in this room were once out of reach; some not yet invented, others too rare or costly for the vast majority of people. Today, most of us lucky enough to live with them walk past without a second thought.
Monday session
Reading Paddy on the Hardwood by Rus Bradburd
The unveiling ceremony is scheduled for September 29th:
The Milestone plaque recognizing Colossus is to be displayed outside Block H at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, England.
The plaque is to read:
Six Colossus codebreaking computers operated in this building in 1944–1945. Designed by Thomas H. Flowers of the British Post Office, they enabled deciphering of encrypted radio messages transmitted between German commands across occupied Europe, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. The resulting military intelligence saved countless lives and helped shorten World War II. As the first successful large-scale application of digital electronics to computing, Colossus anticipated subsequent computer developments.
