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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Last Notes

2026-10-15 20:24:19 UTC

Journal: The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler
A first-contact story that mashes up philosphy and cyperpunk in a satisfying briny bath.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22801

2026-09-30 13:06:39 UTC

Journal: Twenty five years of writing on adactio.com
Happy birthday to my little corner of the web.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22781

2026-08-24 13:43:20 UTC

People of Brighton (and beyond)—come to the Prince Albert on Saturday, September 5th to see the most excellent Salter Cane in action!
Tickets will be £10 on the door, but they’re £8 in advance:
https://saltercane.com/tickets
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22731
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2026-07-26 19:05:54 UTC

Sunday evening session in Brighton
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22675
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2026-06-13 21:09:25 UTC

300 racists came to Brighton today looking to cause trouble.
4000 Brightonians sent ’em packing.
With a ratio like that, all you fascists bound to lose.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22610

2026-06-11 18:20:35 UTC

At #CSSday the Google Chrome team are asking developers “What’s missing from the web?” …I needed a few post-it notes for my answer.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22602
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2026-04-16 15:09:25 UTC

Journal: Threat models
Compression, transformation, expansion.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22529

2026-04-07 16:44:55 UTC

Journal: TinyStart
A lovely bit of software for the Mac.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22516

2026-04-04 18:42:37 UTC

Sound checking Salter Cane
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22512
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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

2026-03-30 15:58:05 UTC

This Saturday, April 4th, come to The Hope And Ruin in Brighton to see Skyscrapers, Equatorial Group, and Salter Cane:
https://saltercane.com/tickets
Tickets are £8 in advance, £10 on the door.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22498
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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

2026-02-25 16:10:06 UTC

Journal: A nice day
Random thoughts of a 55-year old.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22425

2025-12-17 10:18:40 UTC

Journal: Tunes and typefaces
Balancing distinction and harmony.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22304

2025-11-22 18:45:19 UTC

Journal: A child’s Halloween in Ireland
Barmbrack, apples, and monkey-nuts.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22263

2025-11-06 16:14:45 UTC

Journal: Providers
Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that?
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22235

2025-06-14 16:45:10 UTC

Finalising the set list for Friday’s album launch gig with Salter Cane.
https://saltercane.com/tickets
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21955
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2025-06-07 07:40:21 UTC

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@nprofile…4tpe https://worldwideweb30.com/

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

2025-04-16 15:18:18 UTC

Journal: OKLCH()
Programming with CSS.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21853

2025-04-08 16:10:24 UTC

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@nprofile…fynq See also: The Toaster Project by artist Thomas Twaites:
http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm

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 17:16:44 UTC

Ah, Shopify! Where would Breitbart be without you?
Now the CEO of Shopify demands that every developer there uses “AI” to enable swastika merchants to make even more moolah.
(Hi to my “friends” who work there!)
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21833

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

2025-03-19 16:35:16 UTC

Books for all, and roses too!
https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/
American workers, this is the book you need.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21798

2025-02-19 15:34:08 UTC

Journal: The web on mobile
Technically, websites can do just about anything that native apps can do. And yet the actual experience of using the web on mobile is worse than ever.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21728

2025-02-01 11:20:35 UTC

Journal: Making the new Salter Cane website
A redesign with modern CSS.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21685

2025-01-09 15:08:14 UTC

People of Brighton—myself and Remy are giving a talk this evening at AsyncJS; you should come along!
https://asyncjs.com/built-www-in-5-days/
There will be pizza!
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21642

2025-01-03 17:36:05 UTC

Journal: 2024
How I spent the year.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21630

2024-12-25 10:26:00 UTC

Nollaig shona daoibh go léir a chairde!
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21620

2024-12-25 09:41:29 UTC

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@nprofile…vh5w The Quiet Girl (Ireland, 2022)

2024-12-24 18:44:58 UTC

Playing Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight (slip jig) and Patsy Geary’s (jig) on mandolin with Jessica on fiddle:
https://thesession.org/tunes/953
https://thesession.org/tunes/9076
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rgCRPPTo40
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21619

2024-12-24 17:53:47 UTC

Having a proper Cork Christmas with spiced beef, like!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiced_beef#Ireland
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21618
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2024-12-24 10:54:26 UTC

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference between “blog” and “blog post” (as well as “podcast” and “podcast episode”).
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21617

2024-12-22 16:57:45 UTC

Sunday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21615
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2024-12-22 11:01:10 UTC

Hanging out with a good doggo.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21613
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2024-12-20 19:39:40 UTC

Galway session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21611
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2024-12-19 09:07:39 UTC

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@nprofile…kndl You *hope* it’ll be cached by the navigator; with the Cache API you can actually check

2024-12-19 09:06:30 UTC

Going to Galway. brb
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21610

2024-12-18 20:04:06 UTC

Wednesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21609
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2024-12-16 15:21:38 UTC

Journal: Choosing a geocoding provider
A did a little experiment to find the right API provider for thesession.org
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21607

2024-12-16 12:13:25 UTC

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@nprofile…jsrh The source code isn’t open source, but you’re right that it should be easier to view source on the HTML web components. I should fix that!
Here’s the embed-map web component:
https://gist.github.com/adactio/b4a27fd783bb9381d2ada52767d5bf81

2024-12-15 14:56:16 UTC

Journal: Progressively enhancing maps
How I switched to high-resolution maps on The Session without degrading performance.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21606

2024-12-11 11:58:42 UTC

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@nprofile…r0ae Nice! That is literally exactly what I wanted!

2024-12-11 10:20:56 UTC

Feature suggestion: an end-of-year Spotify Unwrapped thingy but for Wikipedia contributions (maybe it would encourage me to contribute more).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Adactio
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21598

2024-12-10 20:21:53 UTC

Tuesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21597
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2024-12-09 21:03:20 UTC

Monday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21596
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2024-12-05 21:16:13 UTC

Thursday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21594
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2024-12-05 09:49:00 UTC

Wednesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21592
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2024-12-05 09:41:14 UTC

Wednesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21591

2024-12-05 08:39:35 UTC

Wednesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21590

2024-12-04 20:49:50 UTC

Wednesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21589

2024-12-04 20:39:28 UTC

Wednesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21588

2024-12-04 15:05:28 UTC

I’m quitting while I’m ahead: https://adactio.com/journal/21585
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21586
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2024-12-04 15:03:12 UTC

Journal: Cocolingo
Improving my Irish language skills with the help of a cat.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21585

2024-12-01 23:43:06 UTC

Sunday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21581
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2024-11-30 12:51:02 UTC

Spent the morning rocking out with Salter Cane.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21580
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2024-11-30 08:50:59 UTC

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@nprofile…luh7 Hang on! Scheisse and Team Scheisse are two different bands—doh!

2024-11-30 08:48:24 UTC

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@nprofile…luh7 Wait …Scheisse are still going!? I remember them as a fellow local band when I lived in Freiburg in the ’90s!

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

2024-11-27 20:20:23 UTC

Wednesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21576
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2024-11-25 20:54:35 UTC

Monday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21573
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2024-11-24 19:15:36 UTC

Sunday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21572
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2024-11-24 19:07:46 UTC

Sunday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21571

2024-11-24 15:17:12 UTC

Journal: Syndicating to Bluesky
Posting notes from my website using the Bluesky API.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21570

2024-11-21 09:02:50 UTC

Test. Ignore.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21566
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2024-11-20 20:38:37 UTC

Wednesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21564
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2024-11-20 09:58:36 UTC

Looking up the translation for the word “cute” in another language, it’s listed in a dictionary as “cute, a.F” where “a.F” stands for “adjective, Familiar” …but that is *not* how I read it at first!
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21563

2024-11-19 19:25:50 UTC

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@nprofile…xvsw Not any more—I use the Mastodon API to post to Mastodon and the Bluesky API to post to Bluesky. The Bluesky API is a bit more faffy than the Mastodon API.

2024-11-19 16:41:01 UTC

I’ve updated my website’s posting interface to allow me to selectively POSSE to Mastodon and/or Bluesky (previously I was using RSS-to-micro.blog for Bluesky syndication)
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21562
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2024-11-17 19:04:32 UTC

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@nprofile…tn2t This is the most Canadian thing ever said.

2024-11-17 16:41:14 UTC

Sunday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21561
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2024-11-17 12:50:38 UTC

Sitting in the front row at the Duke Of York’s to see Danny Boyle’s Sunshine projected on the big screen.
It’s daylight saving time!
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21560

2024-11-16 08:40:50 UTC

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@nprofile…qnzg Be sure to make your house nice and tidy for burglars too.

2024-11-14 22:40:03 UTC

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@nprofile…sw4g Don’t use those tools?

2024-11-14 15:03:10 UTC

Lunching and talking design with Daniel and Chris.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21559
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2024-11-13 20:13:51 UTC

Wednesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21558
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2024-11-13 14:58:15 UTC

I reckon Musk should’ve been put in charge of mass deportations—I mean, just look at the amount of people he’s already managed to get to leave Twitter.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21556

2024-11-12 21:01:46 UTC

Tuesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21555
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2024-11-12 16:12:29 UTC

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@npub1lyx…m8m6 I know the origin of the term Artificial Intelligence. It was invented as a synonym for cybernetics so that Norbert Wiener wouldn't show up and dominate the discussion at the Dartmouth gathering (like he did every other discussion about cybernetics). Almost like reverse marketing.

2024-11-12 15:17:22 UTC

Journal: The meaing of “AI”
Naming things is hard, and sometimes harmful.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21552

2024-11-12 12:01:27 UTC

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@npub1atk…k3se https://adactio.com/journal/21549

2024-11-11 21:29:24 UTC

Monday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21551
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2024-11-10 16:44:16 UTC

Sunday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21550
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2024-11-10 13:50:57 UTC

Journal: FFConf 2024
I’m very grateful to Julie and Remy for nourishing my soul.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21549

2024-11-10 09:55:51 UTC

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@npub1y4p…vsfq
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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 18:37:02 UTC

Well, #FFConf today was a wonderful balm for the soul.
The talks were excellent, and it was really, really good to see people I hadn’t seen in a while—I needed that.
Thank you, Julie. Thank you, Remy.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21547

2024-11-08 17:16:44 UTC

> I think it is beautiful if people have a purpose. But it should be valid to lead a purposeless life too. … Maybe it is okay to not pursue potential and just be okay with being.
— Winne Lim
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21546

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

2024-11-08 13:38:29 UTC

The Shadow DOM discussion is happening outside #FFconf.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21544

2024-11-08 13:19:04 UTC

All the talks at #FFconf have been top-notch so far, but Pixel is a real highlight!
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21543
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2024-11-07 09:46:31 UTC

“I never thought the face-eating leopards would grab *my* pussy!”
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21538

2024-11-03 08:36:35 UTC

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@npub1frw…rgac I'll be there—looking forward to it!

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

2024-11-01 16:06:35 UTC

I’m at #UXBrighton today, where the theme is UX + AI.
I’ve never seen so many smart people willingly do the hype work for venture capitalists.
No mention of where the training data comes from. No mention of the energy usage.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21524

2024-10-24 14:11:34 UTC

This always feels good!
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21513
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2024-10-24 14:09:51 UTC

Journal: Making the website for Research By The Sea
Having fun with view transitions and scroll-driven animations.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21512

2024-10-16 19:04:05 UTC

Wednesday session
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21500
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2024-10-16 09:50:49 UTC

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@npub14fs…rp2w Yay! See you there …I mean here!