Jeremy Keith

Making websites. Writing books. Hosting a podcast. Speaking at events. Living in Brighton. Working at Clearleft. Playing music. Taking photos. Answering email.

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Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

Vague, But Exciting

Jay has gathered his ten (and counting) chapters on the history of the web into one site.

There’s also a podcast feed of all ten chapters, narrated by yours truly.

WriteFreely

I hadn’t come across this before: a barebones blogging tool with built-in fediverse support—neat!

Privacy, Seriously | ICO

This looks like an excellent—and free!—online event centred on privacy and safety. It’s got Eva PenzeyMoog, Robin Berjon and more!

Tuesday, February 7th, 2023

Checked in at SFJazz Center. Hosting Leading Design.

map — Checked in at SFJazz Center. Hosting Leading Design.

Farai on stage in front of a slide that reads: The best treatment is delivered 1:1. — Watching my friend Farai deliver a precision barrage of truth bombs. #LeadingDesign

Farai on stage in front of a slide that reads: The best treatment cannot be delivered at scale. — Watching my friend Farai deliver a precision barrage of truth bombs. #LeadingDesign

Looking out over low buildings and the occasional tree stretching to a horizon that is glowing with the dawn, adding an orange haze to a clear light blue sky. — Good morning, San Francisco!

Monday, February 6th, 2023

Rolling green hills under a blue sky with lovely clouds. In the foreground, rhinos are sauntering around like it’s the African savannah. — On safari outside San Diego. 🦏

Friday, February 3rd, 2023

Going to San Diego. brb

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

Learn Images

Mat has written this free course for you all about images on the web. Covering image formats, responsive images, and workflows, this is one to keep on speed dial.

WebPageTest’s Guiding Principles - WebPageTest Blog

Make the right thing easy

Always answer “so what”?

Close the gap between “something is wrong” to “we fixed it”

Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm – Eric Bailey

A person seeking help in a time of crisis does not care about TypeScript, tree shaking, hot module replacement, A/B tests, burndown charts, NPS, OKRs, KPIs, or other startup jargon. Developer experience does not count for shit if the person using the thing they built can’t actually get what they need.

Wednesday, February 1st, 2023

Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica

map — Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this

Imagine the web is a storefront, React is a hot dog car, and here’s Create React App dressed as a hot dog:

HTML is the cornerstone of the web — so why does creating a “React app” produce an empty HTML file? Why are we not taking advantage of the most basic feature of the web—the ability to see content quickly before all the interactive code loads? Why do we wait to start loading the data until after all the client-side code has finished loading?

The Web Platform Is Back

So much ink spilled supposedly explaining what “the web platform” is …when the truth is you can just swap in the “the web” every time that phrase is used here or anywhere else.

Anyway, the gist of this piece is: the web is good, actually.