Playing Toss The Feathers (reel) on mandolin:
Note archive: April, 2020
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Thursday, April 30th, 2020
Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
Playing Garrett Barry’s jig on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @sil
’Twas indeed a bug! (I need to sanitise my webmentions better) Fixed! Thanks for the heads-up.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
Playing The Maple Leaf (reel) by Darach de Brun on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @scottjehl
I don’t think that’s a universally understood definition.
The way I see the term used, this website would be an example of server-side rendering:
Replying to a tweet from @scottjehl
If you mean server-side rendering+rehydration, please say server-side rendering+rehydration.
The problems don’t come from the server-side rendering part; they come from the rehydration.
Replying to a tweet from @pixelsnader
More and more live sites seem to be built with a prototyping mindset. Weighty JavaScript frameworks are used regardless of appropriateness.
Replying to a tweet from @yoavweiss
There’s a fine line between “public discussion” and “public discussion between employees of the company making that one engine”. 😉
Replying to a tweet from @yoavweiss
There’s a fine line between “adoption in one engine” and “one engine making shit up”.
Replying to a tweet from @dracos
Thanks for writing that up, Matthew—I should update this blog post to add a link to it: https://adactio.com/journal/16797
Monday, April 27th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @simonw
You get me.
Playing The Hag With The Money (jig) on bouzouki:
Sunday, April 26th, 2020
Reading Helliconia Winter by Brian Aldiss.

Playing O’Connell’s Trip To Parliament (reel) on mandolin:
Saturday, April 25th, 2020
Playing Shandon Bells (jig) on mandolin:
🎶 Jamón, jamón, jamón—get through it! 🎶
Friday, April 24th, 2020
Playing The Glen Of Aherlow (reel) on bouzouki:

Flowers in the meadow.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @snookca
It’s soooo good! (and soooo easy!)
Playing Paddy Cronin’s (slide) on mandolin:
Snacking in the sun.
I’m very much looking forward to attending the (online) All Day Hey conference on May 7th—that’s quite a line-up for just £19:
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
Playing My Love Is In America (reel) on mandolin:
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
Playing Old Man Dillon (jig) on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @instagramjones
Ooh, that’s a tough question! I don’t think I can answer it. They’re both excellent and thought-provoking—good book club material.
Monday, April 20th, 2020
Playing The Green Fields Of Rossbeigh (reel) on mandolin:
Sunday, April 19th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @i
Bedankt!
Playing The Tar Road To Sligo (jig) on mandolin:

Checked in at Sheepcote Valley. Lying in the grass on a hillside — with Jessica

Sun, sheep, and sea.
Saturday, April 18th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @keinegurke_
’Tis very good!
Playing The Bag Of Spuds (reel) on mandolin:
Friday, April 17th, 2020

Roast chicken and veg.
Playing The Mist Covered Mountain (jig) by Junior Crehan on mandolin:

Lockdown just got real.
5Kg of Iberian bellota pata negra shoulder has arrived from Spain. 🐖 🇪🇸
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @wmarybeard
I keep returning to two works, one plague-related and one about self-isolation:
Emily St. John Mandel’s book Station Eleven
and
J.G. Ballard’s short story The Enormous Space.
Replying to a tweet from @getify
We fundamentally disagree. Based on the architecture of most framework-driven bloated single page apps today, the idea of separating concerns—much less progressive enhancement—isn’t even known about. This “gospel” had no disciples.
Replying to a tweet from @getify
The way I see it, the people encouraging progressive enhancement made almost zero impact. It wasn’t that the next generation misinterpreted the message; they never even got the message in the first place.

Lunchtime noodles.
Replying to a tweet from @getify
Your talk makes it sound like well-intentioned people were trying to implement progressive enhancment, misinterpreted it, and that’s what got us to where we are today. That’s not how I see things. 99% of devs weren’t even trying to use PE.
Replying to a tweet from @getify
I completely disagree that progressive enhancement is in any way connected with the current state of big bloated single page apps—the devs building those aren’t misinterpreting anything; they’re not even aware of a different approach.
Replying to a tweet from @getify
Yes, and that isn’t progressive enhancement.
Replying to a tweet from @briankardell
This was in response to a question after a talk I gave this morning at @FutureSyncConf called The Layers Of The Web.
Here’s an earlier iteration of the talk: https://adactio.com/articles/16251
Replying to a tweet from @getify
I reacted to it in this post:
https://adactio.com/journal/16404
I was a little disappointed to see Kyle Simpson—who I admire greatly—conflate separation of concerns with progressive enhancement in his talk from JSCamp 2019
Playing The Tap Room (reel) on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @ch12i5
👏
Replying to a post on adactio.com
Instead of using the phrase “progressive enhancement”, I now talk about the benefits and effects of the technique: resilience, universality, etc.
Replying to a post on adactio.com
Yes! …And that’s why I never once used the phrase “progressive enhancement” in my talk. 🙂
There’s a lot of misunderstanding of the term. Rather than correct it, I now avoid it:
@FutureSyncConf Anonymous asks:
Great talk, Jeremy. Do you encounter push-back when using the term “Progressive Enhancement”?
Replying to a post on adactio.com
But files stored using the Cache API are less likely to be deleted than files stored in the browser cache.
More worrying is the announcement from Apple to only store files for a week of browser use:
Replying to a post on adactio.com
Great question! Yes, there are limits, but we’re generally talking megabytes here. It varies from browser to browser and depends on the available space on the device.
@FutureSyncConf Anonymous asks:
Is there a limit to the amount of local storage a PWA can use?
Replying to a post on adactio.com
It was an unbelievable privilege! I was so excited the whole time—I still can hardly believe it really happened!
@FutureSyncConf Anonymous asks:
How excited were you when you initially got the call for such an amazing project?
Replying to a post on adactio.com
The one thing I wish had been done differently is I wish that JavaScript were a same-origin technology from day one:
Replying to a post on adactio.com
Actually, I think the original WWW project got things mostly right. If anything, I’d correct what came later: cookies and JavaScript—those two technologies (which didn’t exist on the web originally) are the source of tracking & surveillance
@FutureSyncConf Rob Whiting asks:
Based on what you now know from the CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild project—what would you have done differently if you had been part of the original 1989 Team?
Replying to a tweet from @whitingx
I must admit, I didn’t think I’d still be banging on about the same idea fifteen years later! 😉
I’ll be giving the opening talk—and answering questions—for @FutureSyncConf at 10am this morning:
Should be fun!
Wednesday, April 15th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @wormmmoon
MAMESHIBA!!!
While acknowledging your feelings and without meaning to diminish your current situation in any way, I must know …where did you get that bean dog!?

Green leaves and blue sky.
Playing Saddle The Pony (jig) on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @chriscoyier
Yup, that’s the way some people on thesession.org have been doing it: https://thesession.org/discussions/44712 https://thesession.org/discussions/44702
People have also been talking about JamKazam: https://thesession.org/discussions/44713

Eating toast (with avocado and dukkah) in the back garden.
Replying to a tweet from @feather
🍻
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
Playing Fred Finn’s (reel) on mandolin:
Monday, April 13th, 2020
Playing Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part (jig) on mandolin:
Sunday, April 12th, 2020
Playing The Milky Way (reel) by Vincent Broderick on mandolin:
Saturday, April 11th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @grigs
It’s a progress b(e)ar(d).
Replying to a tweet from @Brilliantcrank
That’s the blank impassive expression I have when I’m thinking “don’t fuck it up, don’t fuck it up…”
Playing Old Hag, You Have Killed Me (jig) on mandolin:
A nice walk in the country. ☀️

Checked in at Sheepcote Valley. with Jessica
Friday, April 10th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @ari4nne
💔
I can’t believe that @teleject is gone.
Playing The Green Mountain (reel) on mandolin:

Went for my government-sanctioned exercise ’round the local Windows desktop.

Checked in at Sheepcote Valley. with Jessica
Replying to a tweet from @trysmudford
❤️
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @andybudd
As seen in such newsletters as…
https://tinyletter.com/clearleft/letters/dconstruct-from-clearleft-designing-design-fiction
Playing Langstrom’s Pony (jig) on mandolin:

Noodles in the sunshine.
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
Playing The Wedding Reel (MacLeod’s Farewell) on mandolin:
Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @scottjenson
Doh!
Replying to a tweet from @sarah_edo
Playing Patsy Geary’s (slide) on mandolin:
Monday, April 6th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @keinegurke_
Other Minds? Ooh yes, this is the perfect time for that book!
Replying to a post on adactio.com

Here we go!
Replying to a post on adactio.com

I am thoroughly enjoying this remote edition of the Brighton folk club evening with Rowan and Rosie and little Wilf!
Replying to a post on adactio.com
Replying to a tweet from @tomcoates
Thanks, Tom—much appreciated!
Tonight’s Brighton Acoustic Club (first Monday of the month) will be an online-only affair at 8pm:
https://www.facebook.com/brighton.acoustic.club/
Myself and @Wordridden are planning to do a floor spot on mandolin and fiddle.
Playing The Maids Of Ardagh (polka) on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @MrMohtas
Technically, I’m not tweeting. I’m posting a note to my own website, and then syndicating a copy to Twitter. So my Twitter account is a bot, in a way.

Soaking up some sunshine in the back garden with some light reading material from David Deutsch. ☀️ 📖
Replying to a tweet from @simonswiss
Well done, Tony!
Sunday, April 5th, 2020
Playing The Humours Of Scarriff (reel) on bouzouki:
Replying to a tweet from @scottjenson
I wrote about this tension between security and usability a few years back, in the context of seamful design:
Saturday, April 4th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @AndyDavies
Don’t knock it ’till you try it!
Playing The Trip To Athlone (jig) on mandolin:
Cooking up a batch of my chili sin carne:
https://principiagastronomica.com/post/5
(that recipe has been online for fifteen years now!)
Friday, April 3rd, 2020

Brighton and Hove mobility data from Google for the past six weeks compared to baseline:
- Retail and recreation: -89%
- Grocery and pharmacy: -48%
- Parks: -59%
- Transit stations: -77%
- Workplace: -64%
- Residential: +30%
Playing Sailing Into Walpole’s Marsh (reel) on mandolin:
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @AdamHSays
Each shadow photon encounters much the same sort of barrier as its tangible counterpart does, a barrier consisting of only a tiny proportion of all the shadow atoms that are present.
Replying to a tweet from @jamesmadson
We’re doing good (given, y’know, the circumstances)—hope all is well with you!
Replying to a tweet from @jvbates
Thanks! If I post one of these videos every day, it’ll be like a progress bar for my beard.
Playing The Star Above The Garter (slide) on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @bruces
Ballard’s short story “The Enormous Space” is very much a story of our time…
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
Playing The Lads Of Laois (reel) on mandolin:
Replying to a tweet from @cloudsteph
Thank you!
Replying to a tweet from @MadGrds
Yeah, I’ve been thinking about Station Eleven a lot: