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The online home of Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England.
IndieWeb
This makes sense:
Wrap everything in your CSS reset with a
@layerrule.When you place any styles inside a layer, these styles automatically have lower priority compared to all unlayered styles on the page. Think of it like an
!unimportantblock. You don’t need to worry about specificity or order of stylesheets at all.
Sunday session
I think cats would be into The Cure. Dogs would probably prefer R.E.M.
It’d be best to publish your work in some evergreen space where you control the domain and URL. Then publish on masto-sky-formerly-known-as-linked-don and any place you share and comment on.
You don’t have to change the world with every post. You might publish a quick thought or two that helps encourage someone else to try something new, listen to a new song, or binge-watch a new series.
Also, developers:
Write and publish before you write your own static site generator or perfect blogging platform. We have lost billions of good writers to this side quest because they spend all their time working on the platform instead of writing.
Designers, the same advice applies to you: write first, come up with that perfect design later.
thomasorus.com/new-css-that-can-actually-be-used-in-2024.html
Logical properties, container queries, :has, :is, :where, min(), max(), clamp(), nesting, cascade layers, subgrid, and more.
I’m at #UXBrighton today, where the theme is UX + AI.
I’ve never seen so many smart people willingly do the hype work for venture capitalists.
No mention of where the training data comes from. No mention of the energy usage.
Thursday session
If anyone’s already in town for tomorrow’s UX Brighton and fancies some traditional Irish music on this Oíche Shamhna, I’ll playing in a session in the Lord Nelson pub from 8pm.
My Halloween costume is: sexy banjo player.
I like the approach here: logical properties and sensible default type and spacing.
Wednesday session
These are the mornings autumn leaves are made for, bringing the colour when the sun cannot.
Monday session
Sunday session
Writing is the best means I have of metabolizing my own life.
— Maria Popova, 18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian
I really liked this short story.
This always feels good!
Wednesday session
This is such a great project from Jon—a mashup of two books from his childhood!
Put that RSS feed in your feed reader.
I really like the way that the thinking here is tied back to Bert Bos’s original design principles for CSS.
This is a deep dive into the future of CSS layout—make a cup of tea and settle in for some good nerdiness!
Sunday session
theverge.com/c/24247055/2004-tech-internet-gadgets-phones-pop-culture
This is a neat project form Dries:
This project is driven by my curiosity about making websites and web hosting more environmentally friendly, even on a small scale. It’s also a chance to explore a local-first approach: to show that hosting a personal website on your own internet connection at home can often be enough for small sites. This aligns with my commitment to both the Open Web and the IndieWeb.
At its heart, this project is about learning and contributing to a conversation on a greener, local-first future for the web.
Friday session
