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The online home of Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England.
IndieWeb
I’ve updated my website’s posting interface to allow me to selectively POSSE to Mastodon and/or Bluesky (previously I was using RSS-to-micro.blog for Bluesky syndication)
Sunday session
Sitting in the front row at the Duke Of York’s to see Danny Boyle’s Sunshine projected on the big screen.
It’s daylight saving time!
Lunching and talking design with Daniel and Chris.
Wednesday session
I reckon Musk should’ve been put in charge of mass deportations—I mean, just look at the amount of people he’s already managed to get to leave Twitter.
Tuesday session
The same small dataset visualised in a hundred different ways, with notes on the strengths and weaknesses of each one.
The slides from Hidde’s presentation at Beyond Tellerrand.
Monday session
Sunday session
Well, #FFConf today was a wonderful balm for the soul.
The talks were excellent, and it was really, really good to see people I hadn’t seen in a while—I needed that.
Thank you, Julie. Thank you, Remy.
I think it is beautiful if people have a purpose. But it should be valid to lead a purposeless life too. … Maybe it is okay to not pursue potential and just be okay with being.
— Winne Lim
There’s a lot of great discussion at #FFconf about meaning and purpose, but I keep thinking about this terrific blog post by Winnie Lim on leading a purposeless life:
https://winnielim.org/journal/on-leading-a-purposeless-life/
The Shadow DOM discussion is happening outside #FFconf.
All the talks at #FFconf have been top-notch so far, but Pixel is a real highlight!
Thursday session
buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/information-literacy-and-chatbots-as-search/
If someone uses an LLM as a replacement for search, and the output they get is correct, this is just by chance. Furthermore, a system that is right 95% of the time is arguably more dangerous tthan one that is right 50% of the time. People will be more likely to trust the output, and likely less able to fact check the 5%.
daringfireball.net/2024/11/kottke_on_the_art_and_power_of_hypertextual_writing
Hypertext links are an information-density multiplier.
The way I’ve long thought about it is that traditional writing — like for print — feels two-dimensional. Writing for the web adds a third dimension. It’s not an equal dimension, though. It doesn’t turn writing from a flat plane into a full three-dimensional cube. It’s still primarily about the same two dimensions as old-fashioned writing. What hypertext links provide is an extra layer of depth. Just the fact that the links are there — even if you, the reader, don’t follow them — makes a sentence read slightly differently. It adds meaning in a way that is unique to the web as a medium for prose.
When a country shows you who they are, believe them.
“I never thought the face-eating leopards would grab my pussy!”
Wednesday session
The slides from a lovely talk by Ana with an important message:
By having your own personal website you are as indie web as it gets. That’s right. Whether you participate in the IndieWeb community or not: by having your own personal website you are as indie web as it gets.
Really hoping to speedrun the five stages this time.
Straightforward smart sensible advice that you can apply to any feature on a website.
I was notified of a comment on Reddit that was intended as a warning but is in fact a huge compliment:
Gotta be careful about thesession.org. It has the same problem as Wikipedia: anyone can contribute and edit
Reading Polostan by Neal Stephenson.
