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The online home of Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England.
IndieWeb
In defense of the girliest programming language.
I was pleasantly surprised to find a blog post of mine quoted in this article.
A grim tally.
I am an AI skeptic/hater/slow adopter, due to a combination of concerns about the ethics and environmental impact of AI and the fact that I like doing things myself. I knit my own socks, I built a swing for my porch this summer, and every Thanksgiving I make pies from scratch — even the crust (do you like my handmade em dash?).
Aaron’s talk at Papercamp opened with this:
Fun fact: Alex and I first met 19 years ago at a conference in Paris where, coincidentally, I was speaking about something I referred to as the “Papernet”. Amazingly there are no photographs, that I could find online, of either of us speaking. This is a nice passage that Jeremy Keith wrote about the event at the time.
Thursday session
Back from Spain with a good haul…
Monday session in Madrid.
On stage in Cáceres.
More street sessions in Cáceres.
Made a nice salad for lunch in Cáceres. 🥗
Last night’s fun.
Rooftop apartment.
Street session in Cáceres.
Enjoying a nice tapas crawl through Madrid.
Going to Madrid. brb
Wednesday session
Even a stopped watch is right twice a day.
Related: this week Don Trump said he’d like a united Ireland, and that all this talk of humanity-ending AI is bollocks.
tola.me.uk/blog/2026/02/12/how-i-think-web-apps-should-be-installed/
Some good ideas on how browsers could offer the ability to install the current site. Frankly, anything would be better than the current woeful situation!
Monday session
Reading Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction by Ann Leckie.
Today I’ll mostly be listening to The Bothy Band, in memory of Paddy Keenan—what a piper!
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/08/30/native-html-and-css-features-that-replaced-javascript/
Modern HTML and CSS have gained a surprising number of features that cover interactions and layout problems we used to solve with custom scripts or libraries. JavaScript obviously isn’t going anywhere, and there are plenty of things that still require it, but in 2026 I find myself needing it less often for ordinary website interfaces.
buttondown.com/practicaltips/archive/on-artificial-intelligence/
I hope you’ll read and understand that for many of us, this isn’t a knee-jerk reaction or a culty, cosmic doomer rant. It’s about money, power, and quality of life for me and the people I share a planet with.
Matt’s position very much mirrors my own.
As long as I have a choice, and the economic means to keep a roof over my head and a set of reasonably firm values, I am opting out of first-person interaction with AI. And if any of my situation changes for the worse, before I accept AI as my lord and master, I will go down swinging.
Sunday session
