I’ll be here all week.
The online home of Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England.
I’ll be here all week.
Checked in at Beachcomber. with Jessica
I wasn’t even supposed to play on this song but Brad said “do it!”
Going to Saint Augustine. brb
Right before #Frostapalooza kicked off, the team got a pep talk from coach Brad.
I had an absolutely amazing time dancing and playing at Frostapalooza — it was pure joy! 💖
Soundchecking for Frostapolooza!
Playing tunes and songs with @chriscoyier@front-end.social and @wordridden@sunny.garden
Reading Europe In Winter by Dave Hutchinson.
Going to Pittsburg. brb
Wednesday session in Boston
Manicule
Checked in at Harvard Yard. Parkin the cah* in the Hahvahd Yahd (* butt) — with Jessica
Checked in at 3 Little Figs. Breakfast — with Jessica
Going to Boston. brb
This is an interesting thought from Scott: using Shadow DOM in HTML web components but only as a way of providing sort-of user-agent styles:
providing some default, low-specificity styles for our slotted light-dom HTML elements while allowing them to be easily overridden.
The human desire to connect with others is very profound, and the desire of technology companies to interject themselves even more into that desire—either by communicating on behalf of humans, or by pretending to be human—works in the opposite direction. These technologies don’t seem to be encouraging connection as much as commoditizing it.
Back in Brighton
Suka and Serena, my mother’s two good doggos.
css-tricks.com/html-web-components-make-progressive-enhancement-and-css-encapsulation-easier/
Three great examples of HTML web components:
What I hope is that you now have the same sort of epiphany that I had when reading Jeremy Keith’s post: HTML Web Components are an HTML-first feature.
Dan and Sue travelled from Baltimore, Maryland to Baltimore, West Cork.
Baltimore beacon
Foliage
Woods and water
I met a friendly robin this morning.
Back in Cork, like
Jessica on Garinish island.
Exploring Glengarriff
harpers.org/archive/2024/07/the-gods-of-logic-benjamin-labatut-ai/
Benjamín Labatut draws a line from the Vedas to George Boole and Claude Shannon onward to Geoffrey Hinton and Frank Herbert’s Butlerian Jihad.
In the coming years, as people armed with AI continue making the world faster, stranger, and more chaotic, we should do all we can to prevent these systems from giving more and more power to the few who can build them.
This is disgusting, if unsurprising: Google aren’t going to deprecate third-party cookies after all.
Make no mistake, Chrome is not a user agent. It is an agent for the behavioural advertising industry.