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JEREMY KEITH

Making websites. Writing books. Hosting a podcast. Speaking at events. Living in
Brighton. Working at Clearleft. Playing music. Taking photos. Answering email.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3RD, 2021


IMAGINE 2200: CLIMATE FICTION FOR FUTURE ANCESTORS | FIX

Twelve short stories of solarpunk cli-fi “envisioning the next 180 years of
equitable climate progress.”

> Whether built on abundance or adaptation, reform or a new understanding of
> survival, these stories provide flickers of hope, even joy, and serve as a
> springboard for exploring how fiction can help create a better reality.

5:43pm

Tagged with sci-fi sciencefiction futures short stories cli-fi solarpunk 2200


DEFINING THE WHAT AND WHY OF DESIGN PRINCIPLES — ANTON STEN — UX-LEAD

> Just like brand values, mission statements, or vision decks, design principles
> can be generic and provide little to no actual value.
> 
> But used correctly, design principles help you make decisions resulting in a
> superior experience.

5:29pm

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 2021


WAYFORWARD MACHINE • VISIT THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET

This speculative version of the internet archive invites you to see how websites
will look in 2046.

11:16am

Tagged with future dystopia wayforward internetarchive access knowledge digital
preservation activism


VONNEGUT’S STORY SHAPES | EXTRAORDINARY FACILITY

The next best thing to having Kurt Vonnegut at the blackboard.

11:10am

Tagged with stories shapes narratives dataviz visualisations vonnegut archetypes

Spent a nice couple of days hanging out with my buddy Cider.

10:44am

Also on Twitter Instagram


TINY HELPERS

A very comprehensive collection of standalone little tools for web design and
development—tools that do one thing.

10:38am

Tagged with tiny helpers tools resources frontend development design collection
categories


DYSTOPIAS NOW | COMMUNE

> These days I tend to think of dystopias as being fashionable, perhaps lazy,
> maybe even complacent, because one pleasure of reading them is cozying into
> the feeling that however bad our present moment is, it’s nowhere near as bad
> as the ones these poor characters are suffering through.

Kim Stanley Robinson on dystopias and utopias.

> The energy flows on this planet, and humanity’s current technological
> expertise, are together such that it’s physically possible for us to construct
> a worldwide civilization—meaning a political order—that provides adequate
> food, water, shelter, clothing, education, and health care for all eight
> billion humans, while also protecting the livelihood of all the remaining
> mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, plants, and other life-forms that we share
> and co-create this biosphere with. Obviously there are complications, but
> these are just complications. They are not physical limitations we can’t
> overcome. So, granting the complications and difficulties, the task at hand is
> to imagine ways forward to that better place.

10:36am

Tagged with dystopias utopias future sci-fi sciencefiction climate


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1ST, 2021

Looking up in London.

3:20pm

Also on Twitter

I’m such a sucker for gamification when it comes to web
performance/security/privacy.

8:27am

Also on Twitter


THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2021


BRUCE LAWSON’S PERSONAL SITE  : SET SAFARI FREE!

> If Apple allowed Safari to actually compete, it would be better for web
> developers, businesses, consumers, and for the health of the web. Come on,
> Apple, set Safari free!

5:16pm

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monopoly

Twenty years ago I wrote the first entry in my online journal.

Today I wrote the two thousandth eight hundredth and eighteenth entry.

https://adactio.com/journal

Too late to stop now.

5:07pm

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TWENTY YEARS OF WRITING ON MY WEBSITE

On this day twenty years ago I wrote the first entry in my online journal. In
the intervening two decades I’ve written a further 2,817 entries.

I am now fifty years old, which means I’ve been blogging for two fifths of my
lifetime.

My website has actually been around for longer than twenty years, but its early
incarnations had no blog. That all changed when I relaunched the site on
September 30th, 2001.

I wrote at the time:

> I’m not quite sure what I will be saying here over the coming days, weeks,
> months and years.

Honestly I still feel like that.

> I think it’s safe to assume an “anything goes” attitude for what I post here.
> Being a web developer, there’s bound to be lots of geeky, techy stuff but I
> also want a place where I can rant and rave about life in general.

That’s been pretty true, although I feel that maybe there’s been too much geeky
stuff and not enough about everything else in my life.

> I’ll try and post fairly regularly but I don’t want to make any promises I
> can’t keep. Hopefully, I’ll be updating the journal on a daily basis.

I made no promises but I think I’ve done a pretty good job. Many’s the blogger
who has let the weeds grow over their websites as they were lured by the siren
song of centralised social networks. I’m glad that I’ve managed to avoid that
fate. It feels good to look back on twenty years of updates posted on my own
domain.

> Anyway, let’s see what happens. I hope you’ll like it.

I hope you still like it.

Here are some of my handpicked highlights from the past twenty years of
blogging:

 * Hyperdrive, April 20th, 2007
   
   Last night in San Francisco.

 * Design doing, November 11, 2007
   
   The opposite of design thinking.

 * Iron Man and me, December 1st, 2008
   
   The story of how one of my Flickr pictures came to be used in a Hollywood
   movie.

 * Seams, May 12th, 2014
   
   There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

 * Web! What is it good for?, May 28th, 2015
   
   Not absolutely nothing, but not absolutely everything either.

 * Split, April 10th, 2019
   
   Materials and tools; client and server; declarative and imperative; inclusion
   and privilege.

5:02pm

Tagged with anniversary blogging indieweb writing sharing publishing journal 20
twenty

Also on Medium


PLUS EQUALS #3, SEPTEMBER 2021

Want to take a deep dive into tiling images? Like, a really deep dive. Rob has
you covered.

4:37pm

Tagged with tiling images backgrounds combinatorial shapes generative art design
plusequals patterns

Going to London. brb

9:07am

Also on Twitter


WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2021


LOCUS. — ETHAN MARCOTTE

Ethan documents the sad plague of app-install banners on the web.

5:26pm

Tagged with web native apps install prompts doorslam privacy surveillance


RESPONSIBLE JAVASCRIPT, A BOOK APART

TAKE MY MONEY!!!

> If we want people to fully experience the sites we have worked so hard to
> craft, then we must be judicious in our use of JavaScript. In thoughtful
> detail, Jeremy Wagner shows how JavaScript can be used to progressively
> enhance server-side functionality, while improving speed and access for more
> visitors. By centering user needs every step of the way—from toolchains to
> metrics to testing—we can all contribute to a more inclusive, accessible, and
> resilient web.

2:17pm

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development resilience


INNOVATION ON THE CLEARLEFT PODCAST

We’re past the halfway mark for this season of the Clearleft podcast. Episode
four came out today. It’s all about innovation.

At the beginning of the episode, I think you can hear the scorn in my voice.
Y’see, innovation is one of the words—like “disruptive”—that gets thrown around
a lot and everyone assumes it only has positive connotations. But words like
“innovative” and “disruptive” can be applied to endeavours that are not good for
the world.

Bitcoin, for example, could rightly be described as innovative (and disruptive)
but it’s also a planet-destroying ponzi scheme—like a lovechild of the trolley
problem and the paperclip maximizer designed to generate the most amount of
waste for the least amount of value.

So, yeah, I’m not a fan of innovation for innovation’s sake. But don’t worry.
For this episode of the podcast I set my personal feelings to one side and let
the episode act as a conduit for much smarter people.

The whole thing clocks in at 25 minutes but I think this episode might have the
widest range of contributors yet. There are snippets from an internal Clearleft
discussion, soundbites from a panel discussion, extracts from conference talks,
as well as interviews with individuals. From Clearleft there’s Chris How, Andy
Thornton, Jon Aizlewood and Lorenzo Ferronato. From the panel discussion there’s
Janna Bastow, Matt Cooper-Wright, Dorota Biniecka and Akshan Ish. And from UX
Fest there’s Radhika Dutt, Teresa Torres and Gregg Bernstein.

I happily defer to their expertise on this topic. Have a listen and hear what
they have to say.



1:58pm

Tagged with clearleft podcast audio innovation

Also on Medium


GET LOST ON THE WEB – DAN Q

> Internet users use fewer different websites today than they did 20 years ago,
> and spend most of their “Web” time in app versions of websites (which often
> provide a better experience only because site owners strategically make it so
> to increase their lock-in and data harvesting potential). Truly exploring the
> Web now requires extra effort, like exercising an underused muscle. And if you
> begin and end your Web experience on just one to three services, that just
> feels kind of… sad, to me. Wasted potential.

1:48pm

Tagged with wwilfing serendipity indieweb social networks silos browsing linking
links hypertext


TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2021


IOS BROWSER CHOICE | CSS-TRICKS

> I have this expensive computer in my pocket and it feels unfair that it is
> hamstrung in this very specific way of not allowing other browser engines. I
> also have an Apple laptop and it’s not hamstrung in that way, and I really
> hope it never is.

3:21pm

Tagged with ios apple safari webkit browsers interoperability competition
monopoly


HALFWAY THROUGH SEASON THREE OF THE CLEARLEFT PODCAST

Each season of the Clearleft podcast has six episodes. Three of the six episodes
of the current season are available with another three still to come.

In case you missed them, the episodes of season three released so far are:

 1. Coaching
    
    > What’s the difference between training, coaching, and mentorship?

 2. Design Engineering
    
    > A role that sits at the intersection—or rather, the gap—between design and
    > engineering.

 3. Design Research
    
    > The journey from evaluative research to generative research.

That’s quite a mixed bag. You might think that there’s no particular unifying to
a season of the podcast.

Well, that’s kind of true. There’s no specific theme. But each season does have
a meta-grouping.

At Clearleft, we think about our services in three interconnected categories:
explore, create, and grow.

 * “Explore” is all about the big strategic picture.
 * “Create” is the nitty-gritty work of delivery.
 * “Grow” is what connects those together.

Each season of the podcast focuses on one of those categories. This season it’s
all about “explore” with a bit of “grow” thrown in.

The next three episodes of this season will double down on the big-picture
thinking. I don’t want to give any spoilers, but I’ll just remind you that if
you’re not already subscribed to the Clearleft podcast, I highly recommend
rectifying that situation.

Subscribe via RSS, or on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you get your
podcasts from.

And if you’re already subscribed …thank you. If you’re enjoying listening to it
half as much as I’m enjoying making it, then I’m enjoying it twice as much as
you.

Seriously though, if you like what you hear, please share it around. Drop a link
to the Clearleft podcast into your work Slack channel or share it in a tweet.

Thank you for listening.

1:23pm

Tagged with clearleft podcast audio

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Websites I’ve built:

 * THE SESSION
   
   An online community dedicated to Irish traditional music.

 * HUFFDUFFER
   
   Create your own podcast feed of found sounds.

One-page websites:

 * THE GĘSIÓWKA STORY
   
   A Little Known Page of Jewish Fighting History. By Edward Kossoy.

 * DESIGN PRINCIPLES
   
   A collection of design principles from elsewhere, gathered into one place.

 * BRIGHTON SF
   
   A panel discussion I hosted with Brian Aldiss, Lauren Beukes, and Jeff Noon.


ELSEWHERE

You can find me scattered across these sites:

 * Podcasting on Huffduffer
 * Updating Twitter
 * Snapping on Instagram
 * Putting pictures on Flickr
 * Reading on Bookshop
 * Collecting on Tumblr
 * Posting to Medium
 * Coding on Github
 * Teasing on Dribbble
 * Experimenting on CodePen
 * Speaking on Notist
 * Presenting on Speakerdeck
 * Uploading to Vimeo
 * Drinking on Untappd
 * Loitering on Facebook
 * Perplexed by LinkedIn
 * Syndicating to Micro.blog
 * Documented on Wikipedia


BEDROLL

I had the pleasure of welcoming these people into my home:

 * Aaron Gustafson
 * Aaron Parecki
 * Amy Guy
 * Ben Ward
 * Brad Frost
 * Brian Suda
 * Cameron Adams
 * Cindy Li
 * Daniel Boud
 * Daniel Burka
 * Dan Rubin
 * Dave Shea
 * Derek Featherstone
 * Doug Schepers
 * Elizabeth Galle
 * Elsa Kawai
 * Emil Björklund
 * Erin Jo Richey
 * Ethan Marcotte
 * Frances Berriman
 * Hannah Donovan
 * Indi Young
 * James McNally
 * Jason Santa Maria
 * Jenifer Hanen
 * Jina Anne
 * Joe Clark
 * John Morrison
 * Jon Linklater-Johnson
 * Lisa Herrod
 * Lyza Danger Gardner
 * Mandy Brown
 * Mark Norman Francis
 * Matt Harris
 * Matthew Somerville
 * Maxine Sherrin
 * Molly Holzschlag
 * Monika Bansal
 * Natalie Downe
 * Nathan Smith
 * Patrick Griffiths
 * Petra Gregorová
 * Simon Willison
 * Stephanie Hobson
 * Tantek Çelik
 * Tim Parkin


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