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The online home of Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England.

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CSS { In Real Life } | I’ve Been Doing Blockquotes Wrong

https://css-irl.info/ive-been-doing-blockquotes-wrong/

Published: October 16, 2024 15:56

It’s pretty easy to write bad HTML, because for most developers there are no consequences. If you write some bad Javascript, your application will probably crash and you or your users will get a horrible error message. It’s like a flashing light above your…

content-visibility in Safari

https://adactio.com/journal/21498

Published: October 16, 2024 13:17

Earlier this year I wrote about some performance improvements to The Session using the content-visibility property in CSS. If you say content-visibility: auto you’re telling the browser not to bother calculating the layout and paint for an element until…

Docks and home screens

https://adactio.com/journal/21497

Published: October 16, 2024 09:33

Back in June I documented a bug on macOS in how Spaces (or whatever they call they’re desktop management thingy now) works with websites added to the dock. I’m happy to report that after upgrading to Sequoia, the latest version of macOS, the bug has been…

Firefox users: are you able to reproduce this doozy of a bug I’ve found in the latest version? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924798

https://adactio.com/notes/21496

Published: October 15, 2024 16:24

Firefox users: are you able to reproduce this doozy of a bug I’ve found in the latest version? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924798

Wondering if this is the responsible way to enable view transitions on websites: @media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) { @view-transition { navigation: auto; } }

https://adactio.com/notes/21495

Published: October 15, 2024 14:31

Wondering if this is the responsible way to enable view transitions on websites: @media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) { @view-transition { navigation: auto; } }

People posting screenshots of their chats with large language model tools, like it’s cute, like each one of those queries didn’t use exorbitant amounts of carbon, like those tools aren’t all built on masses of unpaid labour.

https://adactio.com/notes/21494

Published: October 15, 2024 12:57

People posting screenshots of their chats with large language model tools, like it’s cute, like each one of those queries didn’t use exorbitant amounts of carbon, like those tools aren’t all built on masses of unpaid labour.

Hyper-responsive web components | Trys Mudford

https://www.trysmudford.com/blog/hyper-responsive-web-components/

Published: October 14, 2024 15:31

Trys describes exactly the situation where you really do need to use the Shadow DOM in a web component—as opposed to just sticking to HTML web components—, and that’s when the component is going to be distributed and you have no idea where: This…

How Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components - The New Stack

https://thenewstack.io/how-microsoft-edge-is-replacing-react-with-web-components/

Published: October 14, 2024 15:09

“And so what we did is we started looking at, internally, all of the places where we’re using web technology — so all of our internal web UIs — and realized that they were just really unacceptably slow.” Why were they slow? The answer: React. “We…

Train coding

https://adactio.com/journal/21489

Published: October 14, 2024 14:50

When I went up to London for the State of the Browser conference last month, I shared the train journey with Remy. I always like getting together with Remy. We usually end up discussing sci-fi books we’re reading, commiserating with one another about…

Spent the day making pumpkin ravioli from scratch. Turned out pretty good!

https://adactio.com/notes/21486

Published: October 12, 2024 18:14

Spent the day making pumpkin ravioli from scratch. Turned out pretty good!

It turns out I’m still excited about the web

https://werd.io/view/6707fe1b68490c909b0770a2

Published: October 12, 2024 17:05

While I’ve grown more cynical about much of tech, movements like the Indieweb and the Fediverse remind me that the ideals I once loved, and that spirit of the early web, aren’t lost. They’re evolving, just like everything else. adactio.com/links/21485

Noodling in the Dark – Lucy Bellwood

https://lucybellwood.com/noodling-in-the-dark/

Published: October 12, 2024 17:03

How RSS feels: I have a richer picture of the group of people in my feed reader than I did of the people I regularly interacted with on social media platforms like Instagram. adactio.com/links/21484

Coco is having a snoozy #caturday on my lap. #notmycat

https://adactio.com/notes/21483

Published: October 12, 2024 09:51

Coco is having a snoozy #caturday on my lap. #notmycat

Travels in Europe

https://adactio.com/journal/21481

Published: October 11, 2024 10:29

One of the perks of speaking at conferences is that I get to travel to new and interesting places. I’d say that most of my travel over the past couple of decades was thanks to conferences. Recently though, I’ve been going places for non-work related…

HTML for People

https://htmlforpeople.com/

Published: October 11, 2024 07:20

This is excellent! A free web book (it’s a book! it’s a website!) that teaches you how to make a website from scratch: I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This book will teach you how to do just that. It…

> They say they're building the thing that will build the thing that will solve all of our problems, while they destroy the planet and run on data theft and labor exploitation, and they get Nobel prizes. — Timnit Gebru

https://adactio.com/notes/21479

Published: October 10, 2024 13:17

They say they’re building the thing that will build the thing that will solve all of our problems, while they destroy the planet and run on data theft and labor exploitation, and they get Nobel prizes. — Timnit Gebru