Playing The High Part Of The Road (jig) on mandolin:
Note archive: March, 2020
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @trysmudford
Thank you for listening!
Monday, March 30th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @zeldman
❤️
Replying to a tweet from @briankardell
Thank you very much, Brian—glad you like ’em!
Replying to a tweet from @justingoboom
Might be a good use for the pre
element to preserve formatting.
In fact, that very use case is mentioned in the spec:
Replying to a tweet from @brad_frost
Violent Femmes, Blister In The Sun?
Replying to a tweet from @adactio
Consequently, nobody on iOS—other than devs like you and me—ever adds any websites to their home screens (progressive web apps or otherwise).
Replying to a tweet from @mrgnrdrck
Chrome, Opera and Samsung Internet “promote” progressive web apps and encourage users to add them to their home screen (becuase—thanks to the manifest file—once opened from there, they behave just like native apps). Safari does nothing.
Replying to a tweet from @mrgnrdrck
It wouldn’t. I don’t understand what you’re asking. The issue is with the sites (the vast majority) that aren’t being added to the home screen—they’re the ones being hobbled by this 7 day deletion.
Playing The Earl’s Chair (reel) on mandolin:
Sunday, March 29th, 2020
Reading The Fabric Of Reality by David Deutsch.

I felt it right there in my chest, the cool clutch of a cliché: my heart sank.
— Machines Like Me
My radio, with its irregular blobs of solder on a board, appears no less a wonder than consciousness itself arising from matter.
— Machines Like Me
Replying to a tweet from @mdenieffe
Oh, nice! I’ll add that site to the links section of The Session:

Playing Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine (hornpipe) on mandolin:
Saturday, March 28th, 2020

Playing Donnybrook Fair (jig) on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @mxbck
Enjoy!
Replying to a tweet from @KatieELambert
I’m so sorry, Katie.
Replying to a tweet from @betterThanMin
They’re both asynchronous actions—using cache
and using fetch
—and the waitUntil
ensures that when one of them is done, the other still carries on. It doesn’t mean that one waits until the other is done.
Replying to a tweet from @betterThanMin
The return
part still happens first though. The waitUntil
ensures that the service worker doesn’t “hang up” while you’re getting the fresh version from the network, but while that’s happening, the user has been served the cached file.
Replying to a tweet from @betterThanMin
Sure. Fire away.
Friday, March 27th, 2020
It’s another clear night tonight and the @Space_Station will pass overhead at 7:42pm.
Look to the skies, my friends!
Replying to a tweet from @csswizardry
You’re just like Tom Cruise in that film!…
Rain Man.

Playing Paddy Fahey’s (reel) on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @harrybr
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie.
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor.
Rosewater by Tade Thompson.
Thursday, March 26th, 2020
Literally everyone on my street came to their doors at 8pm to cheer and clap for the NHS and I think I might have a little something in my eye. #ClapForCarers
Replying to a tweet from @TimoTijhof
Explain to me how a service worker could be abused, given its same-origin policy.
Replying to a tweet from @briankardell
I think when I (or someone else) says the word “enhancement” what you hear is “just an enhancement”—I think that may be at the heart of your Colombo-like feigned confusion.

Playing The Yellow Wattle (jig) on mandolin:
I very much hope that Safari devs will be reasonable and not go ahead with the drastic hobbling of service workers that they’re planning:
Replying to a tweet from @briankardell
Brian, there’s a world of difference between something being a useful enhancement you can add to any website, and something that’s so hobbled as to be not worth your time.
Replying to a tweet from @TimoTijhof
That’s only true if the website has been added to the home screen (which is very, very rare). Most websites using service workers (and almost all progressive web apps) are badly affected by this drastic change.
Join me at 4pm UK time for Quarantine Book Club:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quarantine-book-club-jeremy-keith-tickets-100923242134
We can chat about Resilient Web Design. Or I can just play mandolin. Your call.
Replying to a tweet from @Ahhhellgarp
Zarjaz!
Replying to a tweet from @ravavyr
I do not. I think it is the furthest thing from “fine”.
Replying to a tweet from @ravavyr
That’s right. And on iOS in particular, a vanishingly small number of offline apps are ever added to the home screen.
A progressive web app means HTTPS+service worker+manifest. It does not mean “added to home screen”.
Replying to a tweet from @brucel
Not true. They aren’t deleting service workers for sites added to the home screen. That’s a vanishingly small percentage of progressive web apps.
Added to home screen != progressive web app.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @jonathandavis
Thank you for the response.
So this change isn’t minor—it’s a massive kick in the teeth for service workers.
(Also, I need help understanding how a third party could use service worker registrations …which have a same-origin scope.)
Just about 10 minutes ’till the next ISS flyover: 7:40pm.
People of southern England—look to the skies!
Replying to a tweet from @chefcbailey
Yes! 7:40pm this evening. Should be good one.
Replying to a tweet from @jonathandavis
Can you clarify what the previous time limit was for service workers on Safari before deletion?
(Or was there no time limit?)
Replying to a tweet from @slightlylate
I’m trying to find out what/if the time limit on service worker registrations was in Safari before this change to 7 days.
Was it a set amount of days? Was it unbounded? @johnwilander?
(Does Chrome or Firefox do anything like this?)
Replying to a tweet from @adactio
If you don’t know the answer, can you point me to someone who does?
Replying to a tweet from @alexandtheweb
Aw, thank you! 🎶
Replying to a tweet from @johnwilander
I’m trying to understand what the expiration time was for service workers across the board before this change to 7 days. Was it 30 days? 90? Indefinite?
Replying to a tweet from @johnwilander
What does “classified domains” mean in this context?
Does the 7 day (previously 30 day) time period not apply across the board to any domain that registers a service worker?
Replying to a tweet from @kylebean
With everyone using Google Hangouts right now, I bet loads of people are seeing your lovely work on the Canvas Project:
Replying to a tweet from @johnwilander
Hey John, quick question: what was the time period for deregistering service workers (and emptying caches) before this change to 7 days?
(I have it in the back of my mind it was something like 30 days without engagement—is that right?)

Playing The Lady On The Island (reel) on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @cassiecodes
You must tweeting from an alternate universe train, right? Because you’re on your way to Manchester to run a workshop on SVG animations tomorrow.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @danielpietzsch
Yes, I linked to that in my post (at the end).
I’ll be taking part in Quarantine Book Club discussing ResilientWebDesign.com this Thursday at 4pm UTC:
https://www.quarantinebookclub.com/#keith
2020-03-26T16:00:00
Grab a ticket for $5 (or free if you can’t spare $5 right now).

Playing Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight (slip jig) on mandolin:
Monday, March 23rd, 2020
Replying to a post on adactio.com
What a lovely sight! Skimming along between Venus and Orion.
Replying to a tweet from @ed_barton
It will appear 10° above west-southwest, and disappear 25° above east.
Fellow Brightonians: there’s another ISS flyover at 7:36pm this evening—should be nice and clear.
Let’s pop outside for a few minutes to (individually) watch it go overhead.

Playing The Lilting Fisherman (reel) on mandolin:
Ugh! Mondays! Am I right?
Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
Replying to a post on adactio.com
That was a lovely fly-past! @AstroDrewMorgan @Astro_Jessica Oleg Skripochka
Those astro/cosmonauts know a thing or two about self isolating…
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/an-astronaut-s-tips-for-living-in-space-or-anywhere
People of Brighton: it should be clear skies when the @Space_Station passes over at 8:23pm.
Let’s all go outside and look up at people doing some real social distancing.
(This is something we can do together while keeping our distance.)
Replying to a tweet from @SaraSoueidan
I’m making little tweaks to my site today too—it feels good. I’ll do a little write-up later too.
Looking forward to seeing your RSS feed light up with new articles!

Playing The Banks of Lough Gowna (jig) on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @MaOberlehner
Just a heads-up that the URLs for liking an image aren’t resolving if client-side JavaScript isn’t available (e.g. /like/6).
Saturday, March 21st, 2020
Enjoyed a lovely côte de boeuf from @BarfieldButcher.

Cheers!

Checked in at Queen’s Park. Getting some fresh air — with Jessica

Playing Swinging On The Gate (reel) on mandolin:

My first sourdough! (Thanks to @SometimeSophia’s starter and excellent instructions.)
Friday, March 20th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @cassiecodes
❤️
Replying to a tweet from @beep
Y’know what? I’m going to update the bookmarklet in my original post to use your code (if that’s cool with you, daddy-o).
Replying to a tweet from @beep
Noice!

Playing The Rose In The Heather (jig) on mandolin:
Day four of not leaving the house.
I may have resorted to cannibalism a tad early.
Replying to a tweet from @Wordridden
That was a work chat!

Into content strategy? UX writing? At 11am UTC you can pepper @Minette_78 with questions using the tag of hashiness #AskClearleft.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
We are all Julian Assange now.
Because of the self isolation, I mean. Not, y’know, the rapiness.
Not All Self-isolating Men.
I’ll see myself out.
No, wait! I won’t!

Playing Farrel O’Gara’s reel on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @Aizlewood
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Control freak—now you say “Control freak who?”
Replying to a tweet from @harrybr
That is seriously brilliant.
Reading Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2020

Winding down with a can of @LostFoundABL R23 session IPA.
Cheers!
Playing The Luachrachán jig on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @beep

❤️
Tuesday, March 17th, 2020

Having a St. Patrick’s night feast at home.
Lá ‘le Pádraig sona daoibh go léir!

I usually do my procrastinating in the @Clearleft studio but I’ll be Procrastinating From Home now.
Sunday, March 15th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @hotdogsladies
Well, now I know what I’m going to be listening to again during my self isolation.

Checked in at The Hartington. Last chance for some tunes?
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @rem
Here’s a list of resources I put together for someone starting out in web development:
Thursday, March 12th, 2020
This day last year was filled with travel—from Geneva to London—to celebrate the web at 30:
https://adactio.com/journal/14948
This year, there’s a lot less travelling.
Anyway. Happy 31st birthday to Information Management: A Proposal!

Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Tunes! 🎶🎻🎶 — with Jessica
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020

Testing out the Lighthouse bookmarklet I whipped up:

Checked in at Cartwheel Cafe and Roastery. with Remy
Eating toast with @Rem.
Monday, March 9th, 2020
Everyone is being so critical of Trump’s handling of the situation with COVID-19, but honestly, if I had the virus, I’d want to shake him by the hand.

Checked in at 200 Degrees Coffee
Going to Nottingham. brb
Replying to a post on www.jvt.me
See you later!
Sunday, March 8th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @ProfBrianCox
Yes! The Age Of Wonder is my favourite book on the history of science.
Saturday, March 7th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @infovore
I properly LOL’d at this …a nice warm-hearted, non-snarky LOL.
From a BBC News story:
Facebook is closing its London office for the weekend …Staff members have been told to work from home until Monday.
Wait.
Friday, March 6th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @VorganHaze
Muchas, muchas gracias, Vorgan!
Thursday, March 5th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @heydonworks
Let me know if you come up with a good job title for that because it me.
Reading A Short History Of Irish Traditional Music by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin.

Monday, March 2nd, 2020
It was a comforting myth, and one I embraced because I had seen comfort, without realising it was only a myth.
— Abolish Silicon Valley
Checked in at The Winding Stair. Lunch in Dublin — with Jessica
Replying to a tweet from @keinegurke_
Julian Gough! He used to be the singer in a most excellent band called Toasted Heretic many years ago, when we both lived in Galway.

Checked in at The Salt House. 🍺 — with Jessica

Checked in at Cava Bodega. Scallops with black pudding — with Jessica

Checked in at Tigh Cóilí. 🎶🎻 — with Jessica

Checked in at The Crane Bar. 🎶🎻 — with Jessica
Sunday, March 1st, 2020

Checked in at Hooked. with Jessica
Checked in at Coffeewerk + Press. with Jessica
Galway bay.

Return the ring from whence it came!

Checked in at Tigh Cóilí. Afternoon session — with Jessica
Checked in at wa cafe. Sushi — with Jessica

A surprisingly sunny day in Galway.

Checked in at Ard Bia at Nimmos. Black pudding hash and a pot of tea — with Jessica
Checked in at America Village Apothecary. with Jessica

Checked in at The Crane Bar. Great tunes! 🎻🎶 — with Jessica