Fictional Band Trivia | Rob Weychert
Okay, so I didn’t get many of the answers, but nonetheless these are excellent questions!
(Ah, how I long for the day when we can once more engage in quizzo and picklebacks at National Mechanics.)
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2020
Friday, April 17th, 2020
Future Sync 2020
I was supposed to be in Plymouth yesterday, giving the opening talk at this year’s Future Sync conference. Obviously, that train journey never happened, but the conference did.
The organisers gave us speakers the option of pre-recording our talks, which I jumped on. It meant that I wouldn’t be reliant on a good internet connection at the crucial moment. It also meant that I was available to provide additional context—mostly in the form of a deluge of hyperlinks—in the chat window that accompanied the livestream.
The whole thing went very smoothly indeed. Here’s the video of my talk. It was The Layers Of The Web, which I’ve only given once before, at Beyond Tellerrand Berlin last November (in the Before Times).
As well as answering questions in the chat room, people were also asking questions in Sli.do. But rather than answering those questions there, I was supposed to respond in a social medium of my choosing. I chose my own website, with copies syndicated to Twitter.
Here are those questions and answers…
The first few questions were about last years’s CERN project, which opens the talk:
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.
The one thing I wish had been done differently is I wish that JavaScript were a same-origin technology from day one:
Next question:
How excited were you when you initially got the call for such an amazing project?
It was an unbelievable privilege! I was so excited the whole time—I still can hardly believe it really happened!
Later in the presentation, I talked about service workers and progressive web apps. I got a technical question about that:
Is there a limit to the amount of local storage a PWA can use?
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.
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:
Finally, there was a question about the over-arching theme of the talk…
Great talk, Jeremy. Do you encounter push-back when using the term “Progressive Enhancement”?
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
Instead of using the phrase “progressive enhancement”, I now talk about the benefits and effects of the technique: resilience, universality, etc.
Friday, February 21st, 2020
How I think about solving problems - Human Who Codes
- Is this really a problem?
- Does the problem need to be solved?
- Does the problem need to be solved now?
- Does the problem need to be solved by me?
- Is there a simpler problem I can solve instead?
Monday, December 2nd, 2019
Design Questions Library | d.school public library
This site is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather a useful guide—our FAQ for design understanding. We hope it will inspire discussion, some questioning, a little soul searching, and ideally, a bit of intellectual support for your everyday endeavors.
The Design Questions Library goes nicely with the Library of Ambiguity.
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
What makes a startup ecosystem thrive?
What do people plan to do once they’re over 35?
Is an income of $160K enough to survive?
What kind of car does Mark Zuckerberg drive?
Thursday, September 27th, 2018
My favorite design tool. — Ethan Marcotte
“What if someone doesn’t browse the web like I do?”
Monday, June 4th, 2018
Get to Know Jeremy Keith
I had fun answering these questions.
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
The Tarot Cards Of Tech
A useful set of questions to ask on any project, shuffled and dealt to you.
They’ll not only help you foresee unintended consequences—they can also reveal opportunities for positive change.
All of the content in images. Not a single image has alternative text. If only they had asked themselves:
When you picture your user base, who is excluded? If they used your product, what would their experience be like?
Thursday, May 10th, 2018
A Book Apart, Get to Know Jeremy Keith
My publishers asked me some questions. My answers turned out to be more revealing of my inner demons than I was expecting. I hope this isn’t too much oversharing, but I found it quite cathartic.
My greatest fear for the web is that it becomes the domain of an elite priesthood of developers. I firmly believe that, as Tim Berners-Lee put it, “this is for everyone.” And I don’t just mean it’s for everyone to use—I believe it’s for everyone to make as well. That’s why I get very worried by anything that raises the barrier to entry to web design and web development.
It’s ironic that, at the same time as we can do so much more with less when it comes to the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in browsers, many developers are choosing to make things more complicated by introducing complex tool chains, frameworks and processes.
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
Best Practices With CSS Grid Layout — Smashing Magazine
A great set of answers from Rachel to frequently asked questions about CSS grid. She addresses the evergreen question of when to use flexbox and when to use grid:
I tend to use Flexbox for components where I want the natural size of items to strongly control their layout, essentially pushing the other items around.
A sign that perhaps Flexbox isn’t the layout method I should choose is when I start adding percentage widths to flex items and setting
flex-growto 0. The reason to add percentage widths to flex items is often because I’m trying to line them up in two dimensions (lining things up in two dimensions is exactly what Grid is for).
Friday, March 2nd, 2018
Questions To Ask Before Building a Component Library | Chromatic
- What problems will a component library solve?
- Is everyone on the project behind the component library?
- How will the component library be used?
- What tool(s) will be used to build the component library?
- Where should the component library live?
- How granular should the library be? How should it be organized?
- How will component code be scoped? What about page layout?
- What data will the library use? What else should it have?
Sunday, December 3rd, 2017
Another Lens - News Deeply x Airbnb.Design
Little interventions for designers in the form of questions designed to challenge assumptions. Kind of like Brian Eno’s oblique strategies.
Wednesday, November 29th, 2017
Answers for young people - Tim Berners-Lee
Many, many years ago, Tim Berners-Lee wrote this page of answers to (genuinely) frequently asked questions he got from school kids working on reports. I absolutely love the clear straightforward language he uses to describe concepts like hypertext, packet switching, and HTTP.
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
The Juvet Agenda
Questions prompted by the Clearleft gathering in Norway to discuss AI.
Sunday, August 6th, 2017
Another Lens - News Deeply x Airbnb.Design
A series of questions to ask on any design project:
- What are my lenses?
- Am I just confirming my assumptions, or am I challenging them?
- What details here are unfair? Unverified? Unused?
- Am I holding onto something that I need to let go of?
- What’s here that I designed for me? What’s here that I designed for other people?
- What would the world look like if my assumptions were wrong?
- Who might disagree with what I’m designing?
- Who might be impacted by what I’m designing?
- What do I believe?
- Who’s someone I’m nervous to talk to about this?
- Is my audience open to change?
- What am I challenging as I create this?
- How can I reframe a mistake in a way that helps me learn?
- How does my approach to this problem today compare to how I might have approached this one year ago?
- If I could learn one thing to help me on this project, what would that one thing be?
- Do I need to slow down?
Thursday, April 13th, 2017
The Setup - Jeremy Keith · Hey!
As part of an ongoing series where we ask industry professionals what they use to get the job done, we speak to Jeremy, technical director at Clearleft.
I couldn’t resist the smartarse answer about my “dream setup.”
Monday, April 3rd, 2017
adactio/ama: Ask @adactio anything!
I’ve made one of them there “ask me anything” things so that you can ask me, well …anything.
Wednesday, March 15th, 2017
Systems Smart Enough To Know When They’re Not Smart Enough | Big Medium
I can forgive our answer machines if they sometimes get it wrong. It’s less easy to forgive the confidence with which the bad answer is presented, giving the impression that the answer is definitive. That’s a design problem.
Monday, March 6th, 2017
How To Ask for the Truth » Mike Industries
Absolute gold dust from Mike!
I think that having regular 1:1s is really important, but I’m sure I’m not doing them as effectively as I could—the advice in here is going to be invaluable.
There are three types of employees in the world when it comes to disclosing issues:
- Those who will always tell you about problems.
- Those who will never tell you about problems.
- Those who will tell you about problems when asked in the right way.
I love my ones and am frustrated by my twos, but I feel like at least 9 out of 10 people are actually threes.
Sunday, March 5th, 2017
The Not Quiz – Test your celebrity, music and film knowledge
This is really good fun! And thanks to service workers, it works offline too.
The rounds are:
- Dead or Not Dead,
- Number 1 or Not Number 1, and
- Oscar or Not Oscar.