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Wednesday, October 26th, 2022

Design Principles For The Web - Jeremy Keith - YouTube

Here’s the video of the talk I gave at Web Dev Conf in Bristol recently. I think you can tell that I had fun—it was a good audience!

Design Principles For The Web - Jeremy Keith

Monday, October 24th, 2022

In person

I’ve had the opportunity to gather with my peers a few times over the past couple of months.

There was dConstruct, which I hosted. That was just lovely.

Then a few weeks ago, in spite of train strikes and travel snags, I went to Bristol to give a talk at Web Dev Conf, a really nice gathering.

This past weekend I was in London for State Of The Browser, this time as neither host nor speak, but as an attendee. It was really good!

I noticed something rather lovely. There was enough cross-over in the audiences for these events that I got to see some people more than once. That’s something that used to happen all the time but became very rare over the past two years because of The Situation.

None of the organisers of these events were pretending that Covid has gone away. Each event had different processes in place to mitigate risk. I wrote about the steps I took for dConstruct. For some people, those measures might seem to go too far. For other people, they don’t go far enough. This is a challenge that every in-person event is facing and from what I’ve seen, they’re all doing their level best.

None of these events were particularly large. Attendence was maybe somewhere between 100 and 200 people at each one. I know that there’s still a risk in any kind of indoor gathering but these events feel safer than the really big tech gatherings (like the one in Berlin where I got the ’rona—that was literally tens of thousands of people).

Anyway, all three events were thoroughly enjoyable. Partly that’s because the talks were good, but also because the socialising was really, really nice—all the nicer for being in relatively safe environments.

It’s not exactly an earth-shattering observation to point out that the social side of conferences is just as valuable as the content. But now that so many of us are working remotely, I feel like that aspect of in-person events has become even more important.

Or maybe I’m just appreciating that aspect of in-person events after spending such a long time with screen-mediated interactions only.

Sunday, June 13th, 2021

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Celebrating my second vaccine jab with Thai tapas in the sun.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020

Monday, August 17th, 2020

Friday, July 3rd, 2020

Tuesday, June 16th, 2020

Thursday, June 4th, 2020

Sunday, May 10th, 2020

Playing The Golden Keyboard (reel) by Martin Mulhaire on mandolin:

https://thesession.org/tunes/36

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

Friday, July 12th, 2019

Noel Hill.

Noel Hill.

Friday, May 11th, 2018

Any Site can be a Progressive Web App

Here are the slides and links from the talk I just gave at the Delta V conference. I had ten minutes, but to be honest, just saying the name of the talk tells you everything.

Wednesday, October 26th, 2016

Cotelette.

Cotelette.

Friday, April 1st, 2016

Sea bream.

Sea bream.

Saturday, February 27th, 2016

Kara-age.

Kara-age.

Friday, November 27th, 2015

Soon?

Soon?

Thursday, November 19th, 2015

Tomato, rocket and Parmesan.

Tomato, rocket and Parmesan.

Tuesday, June 16th, 2015

Tomato, feta, onion and mint salad.

Tomato, feta, onion and mint salad.

Sunday, June 7th, 2015

Lamb, beans, and spinach.

Lamb, beans, and spinach.

Sunday, March 15th, 2015

Sunday roast.

Sunday roast.

Monday, February 9th, 2015

Client-side MVC’s major bug - TimKadlec.com

I’ve said it before: if your client-side MVC framework does not support server-side rendering, that is a bug. It cripples performance.