Jeremy Keith

Mediocre middle-aged white man from Ireland living in Brighton, England working with Clearleft.

I play traditional Irish music on mandolin and I play slide bouzouki in the band Salter Cane.

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website: https://adactio.com
codepen: https://codepen.io/adactio
pronouns: he/him

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Last Notes

2026-04-02 14:57:44 UTC

Journal: Mistrust
How Apple’s penchant for breaking the web has given me more empathy towards developers who are suspicious of the web platform.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22507

2026-03-23 08:45:32 UTC

It feels like all my peers are experiencing Deep Blue and having to choose their future career path:
expert in a dying field
or
collaborator in a fascist project.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22482

2025-10-29 15:25:57 UTC

56 years ago today:
> Talked to SRI Host to Host
— IMP log, 1969-10-29 22:30, Charles S. Kline, Boelter Hall, UCLA
The message:
> LO
The ARPANET was born.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22223

2025-05-23 08:38:32 UTC

Journal: Tools
A large language model is as neutral as an AK-47.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21926

2025-05-10 19:01:18 UTC

Namur
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21900
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2025-04-29 11:32:58 UTC

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Mostly for me it’s about whether designers have a good grasp of what’s cheap and what’s expensive in the medium of the web when it comes to performance:
Fonts: in print, use as many as you want but on the web that gets weighty
Colours: expensive in print, cheap as chips on the web
Want gradients on a website? No problem!
Want a customised drop-down or date picker? Gonna cost ya

2025-04-28 16:40:06 UTC

Dining al fresco (with Coco the cat for company).
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21877
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2025-04-07 20:07:52 UTC

Happy 25th anniversy to A Dao Of Web Design by John Allsopp:
https://alistapart.com/article/dao/
Still relevant after all these years!
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21835

2025-04-07 12:58:29 UTC

Journal: Denial
The best of the web is under continuous attack from the technology that powers your generative “AI” tools.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21831

2025-01-04 10:27:43 UTC

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https://adactio.com/articles/16334#:~:text=Are%20we%20engineers?

2024-11-28 11:11:23 UTC

Journal: Going Offline is online …for free
Read the book I wrote about service workers. It’s all yours.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21578

2024-11-09 14:32:01 UTC

Journal: Optimism
Is it better to be a disappointed optimist or a vindicated pessimist?
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21548

2024-11-08 17:15:48 UTC

There’s a lot of great discussion at #FFconf about meaning and purpose, but I keep thinking about this terrific blog post by Winnie Lim on leading a purposeless life:
https://winnielim.org/journal/on-leading-a-purposeless-life/
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21545

2024-11-02 10:56:37 UTC

Journal: Unsaid
I listened to a day of talks on AI at UX Brighton, and I came away disappointed by what wasn’t mentioned.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21525

2024-10-10 13:17:45 UTC

> 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

2024-10-10 08:35:44 UTC

Journal: Mismatch
It’s almost as though humans prefer to use post-hoc justifications rather than being rational actors.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21477

2024-09-26 15:17:23 UTC

Journal: The datalist element on iOS
Some buggy behaviour has been fixed in iOS 18 but now there’s a new bit of weirdness.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21445

2024-09-12 08:11:30 UTC

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Borrowing from the world of cicadas, you can use different prime numbers to get a faux-aperiodic effect:
https://www.sitepoint.com/the-cicada-principle-and-why-it-matters-to-web-designers/

2024-09-03 13:48:06 UTC

Like @npub1rnu…5056 says:
> It feels a little like we’re going backwards.
https://css-irl.info/the-problem-with-surveys/
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21392

2024-08-23 15:44:48 UTC

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What was the name of this tune again? (I want to bookmark it for myself on thesession.org)

2024-08-17 03:14:26 UTC

Playing tunes and songs with @npub1t0w…zgs2 and [@wordridden](https://sunny.garden/@wordridden )
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21342
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2024-08-12 12:05:43 UTC

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WISH …effectively granting infinite wishes not just to the person dealing with the genie, but rather, as Tim Berners-Lee put it, this is for everyone.