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Jeremy Keith — Web developer, author, and co-founder of Clearleft
Jeremy Keith on web standards, progressive enhancement, and the open web.
adactio.comCode isn't the thing in the same way that words or images are; code is the thing that gets you to the thing.
One of the longest-running indie blogs on the web, with entries dating back to 2001. Jeremy writes about web standards, progressive enhancement, and the open web with the care of someone who's spent over two decades thinking about how to build things that last. Between the technical writing you'll find posts about Irish traditional music, book reviews, and life in Brighton — the kind of range that only a genuine personal blog can pull off.
Written by Jeremy Keith since 2001.
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A nice day
It’s the 25th of February and it’s a beautiful day here in Brighton. I had lunch sitting outside—that’s how unseasonably warm it is. Like a little whiff of Summer to remind us of what’s yet to come. It’s also my birthday. The beautiful weather is an auspicious augery. Mozilla also released a new version of Firefox. I was hoping for cross-document view transitions and scroll-driven animations for my birthday, but alas I may have to wait another year. Later, Jessica is going to take me out for...
Counting down to Web Day Out
Not long now ’till Web Day Out — just three weeks! It’s also not that long until the start of a new financial year so if you’ve got training budget that needs to be used this year, send your team to Web Day Out. Not only is it excellent value for money, it’s also going to have an incredibly high density of knowledge bombs per talk. CSS! Progressive web apps! Web typography! Browser support! And much more. If you like the sound of Web Day Out, you’ll also like State Of The Browser, which is ju...
Magic
I don’t like magic. I’m not talking about acts of prestidigitation and illusion. I mean the kind of magic that’s used to market technologies. It’s magic. It just works. Don’t think about it. I’ve written about seamless and seamful design before. Seamlessness is often touted as the ultimate goal of UX—“don’t make me think!”—but it comes with a price. That price is the reduction of agency. When it comes to front-end development, my distrust of magic tips over into being a complete control freak...
The Morrigan by Kim Curran
Every culture has its myths and legends. Greece has its gods and warriors. England has its stories of Arthur. Ireland has the Tuatha Dé Danann, The Ulster Cycle, and more. But while the Arthurian legends and the Greek myths have been retold many times, the stories of ancient Ireland have remained largely untouched. Kim Curran’s book The Morrigan takes on this challenge. The blurb for the book compares it Madeline Miller’s Circe, which is a bold comparison. The writing in The Morrigan isn’t in...
Concertina
I watched a good film last night. Tornado from the same writer and director of the also-excellent Slow West. Tornado is a Scottish Samurai Western set in the 1790s. Although it’s not likely that many Samurai would’ve been in Scotland during the sakoku period, I was willingly able to suspend my disbelief …until something quite minor happened on screen. One of the characters is seen playing a concertina. “Hang on”, I thought, “1790s? That’s not right!” And indeed, once the film was over I reach...
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