Note archive: April, 2020

Playing Toss The Feathers (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/138

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCnjk_ecnbg

Playing Garrett Barry’s jig on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/544

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGCTAGlwmw

’Twas indeed a bug! (I need to sanitise my webmentions better) Fixed! Thanks for the heads-up.

Playing The Maple Leaf (reel) by Darach de Brun on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1050

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OltYLEGaYM4

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:

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

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.

More and more live sites seem to be built with a prototyping mindset. Weighty JavaScript frameworks are used regardless of appropriateness.

https://adactio.com/journal/14562

There’s a fine line between “public discussion” and “public discussion between employees of the company making that one engine”. 😉

There’s a fine line between “adoption in one engine” and “one engine making shit up”.

Thanks for writing that up, Matthew—I should update this blog post to add a link to it: https://adactio.com/journal/16797

You get me.

Playing The Hag With The Money (jig) on bouzouki:

https://thesession.org/tunes/351

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oToLey7mZhw

Reading Helliconia Winter by Brian Aldiss.

Playing O’Connell’s Trip To Parliament (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1443

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi0_EVIU5JQ

Playing Shandon Bells (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n7ug2SiBws

Playing The Glen Of Aherlow (reel) on bouzouki:

https://thesession.org/tunes/496

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzj5Hz4PKvs

It’s soooo good! (and soooo easy!)

Playing Paddy Cronin’s (slide) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/8362

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjgEs9kJdtU

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:

https://alldayhey.com/

Playing My Love Is In America (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/77

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLgiOBlaW78

Playing Old Man Dillon (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/2200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWK0JqpOOJ8

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.

Playing The Green Fields Of Rossbeigh (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/322

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-3xE3AHO8U

Bedankt!

Playing The Tar Road To Sligo (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/151

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-80mlhrNic

’Tis very good!

Playing The Bag Of Spuds (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/579

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4qfc3vJzkQ

Playing The Mist Covered Mountain (jig) by Junior Crehan on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/256

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwHnM3mDak

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.

https://adactio.com/journal/16666

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes, and that isn’t progressive enhancement.

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

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:

https://thesession.org/tunes/711

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAfOoMWaSyk

👏

Instead of using the phrase “progressive enhancement”, I now talk about the benefits and effects of the technique: resilience, universality, etc.

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:

https://adactio.com/journal/9195

@FutureSyncConf Anonymous asks:

Great talk, Jeremy. Do you encounter push-back when using the term “Progressive Enhancement”?

https://app.sli.do/event/vxcnijew/live/questions

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:

https://adactio.com/journal/16619

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?

https://app.sli.do/event/vxcnijew/live/questions

It was an unbelievable privilege! I was so excited the whole time—I still can hardly believe it really happened!

https://adactio.com/journal/14803

https://adactio.com/journal/14821

@FutureSyncConf Anonymous asks:

How excited were you when you initially got the call for such an amazing project?

https://app.sli.do/event/vxcnijew/live/questions

The one thing I wish had been done differently is I wish that JavaScript were a same-origin technology from day one:

https://adactio.com/journal/16099

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?

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:

https://futuresync.co.uk/

Should be fun!

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!?

Playing Saddle The Pony (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/307

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MND1wR175yE

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

🍻

Playing Fred Finn’s (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/452

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgzwLEtK8

Playing Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1154

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRQDK8zYBy0

Playing The Milky Way (reel) by Vincent Broderick on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/2241

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7oXLSYxWyE

It’s a progress b(e)ar(d).

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:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1359

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfejZHRx5u8

💔

I can’t believe that @teleject is gone.

Playing The Green Mountain (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/166

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O86UxqP8MTU

❤️

As seen in such newsletters as…

https://tinyletter.com/clearleft/letters/dconstruct-from-clearleft-designing-design-fiction

Playing Langstrom’s Pony (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/61

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj8655xERL0

Playing The Wedding Reel (MacLeod’s Farewell) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/518

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dg8u_DZ-f0

Doh!

Um…

https://twitter.com/scottjenson/status/1247614937406398464

Playing Patsy Geary’s (slide) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/325

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bvXwlBmonA

Other Minds? Ooh yes, this is the perfect time for that book!

https://www.facebook.com/brighton.acoustic.club/videos/152092416157272/

And we’re live!

https://www.facebook.com/brighton.acoustic.club/videos/262879474741431/

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:

https://thesession.org/tunes/466

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVfxA_p2wDA

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.

https://adactio.com/journal/6826

Well done, Tony!

Playing The Humours Of Scarriff (reel) on bouzouki:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1748

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKQDZVF9Igg

I wrote about this tension between security and usability a few years back, in the context of seamful design:

https://adactio.com/journal/6786

Don’t knock it ’till you try it!

Playing The Trip To Athlone (jig) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1301

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsYdYKwtGF4

Cooking up a batch of my chili sin carne:

https://principiagastronomica.com/post/5

(that recipe has been online for fifteen years now!)

Playing Sailing Into Walpole’s Marsh (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1341

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-599EkOYrQ

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.

We’re doing good (given, y’know, the circumstances)—hope all is well with you!

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:

https://thesession.org/tunes/1398

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efkzv1TggHU

Ballard’s short story “The Enormous Space” is very much a story of our time…

https://adactio.com/journal/16666

Playing The Lads Of Laois (reel) on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78mxn-7ZDnY

Thank you!

Yeah, I’ve been thinking about Station Eleven a lot:

https://adactio.com/journal/16553