Sunday session
The online home of Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England.
Sunday session
The best thing about the cold weather is seeing all the good doggos out walking in their winter outfits.
Saturday afternoon kitchen session
Kitty, the session dog!
Rob’s farewell session
Thursday session
There should be a German word for the slightly smug warm feeling you get from using an obscure HTML element like dfn in your most recent blog post, like wot I did.
Elementenrichtigkeitsgefühl
The best film I saw in the cinema in 2025 was definitely…
A browser-based RSS reader that stores everything locally. There’s also a directory you can explore to get you started.
This is depressing.
Every millisecond you spend executing JavaScript is a millisecond the browser can’t spend responding to a click, updating a scroll position, or acknowledging that the user did just try to type something. When your code runs long, you’re not causing “jank” in some abstract technical sense; you’re ignoring someone who’s trying to talk to you.
This is a great way to think about client-side JavaScript!
Also:
Before your application code runs a single line, your framework has already spent some of the user’s main thread budget on initialization, hydration, and virtual DOM reconciliation.
Sessioning
Wednesday session
I’m avoiding Mac OS Tahoe because of the disgraceful liquid glass debacle, but it looks like the rot goes even deeper. Here’s a detailed look at the sad state of iconography in application menus.
I know that changes in an OS update can take time to get used to, but this isn’t a case of “one step forwards, two steps back”—it’s just a lot of steps back with no forwards.
Tuesday session
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
— James Joyce, The Dead
(Tá sé ag cur sneachta anois—go bog—i mBrighton)
I may have found my people.
Monday session
Playing tunes in a kitchen on a Saturday night.
Hand-coded, syndicated, and above all personal websites are exemplary: They let users of the internet to be autonomous, experiment, have ownership, learn, share, find god, find love, find purpose. Bespoke, endlessly tweaked, eternally redesigned, built-in-public, surprising UI and delightful UX. The personal website is a staunch undying answer to everything the corporate and industrial web has taken from us.
The past is a foreign country that we should impose tariffs on.
Start a blog. Start one because the practice of writing at length, for an audience you respect, about things that matter to you, is itself valuable. Start one because owning your own platform is a form of independence that becomes more important as centralized platforms become less trustworthy. Start one because the format shapes the thought, and this format is good for thinking.
New year’s day session.
It’s surreal to see my name on this list: