Tag: jeremy-keith
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Does my blog need to support ActivityPub?
I have my reservations about whether or not blogs (specifically my blog) should federate content via ActivityPub. Isn’t RSS enough?
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Using static websites as personal archives
Over coffee this morning, browsing my unreads in NetNewsWire, I stumbled on Simon Willison’s mention of Alex Chan’s “Using static websites as tiny archives” post. And then I saw Jeremy Keith also mention it. So I thought I’d mention it to! There’s no web server, no build system, no dependencies, and no JavaScript frameworks. I’m…
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Will my next Mac be my last Mac?
Perhaps you’ve had this experience… you walk into a place of business and see the computer and software they use to do their scheduling, billing, and ordering and you notice they are decades old. But, have you seen how productive they are? More often than not they are so fast that the computer has a…
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Disbanding the POSSE
For the past several years I’ve been POSSE-ing. In Indieweb terms that means to publish content on my own site and syndicate it to other platforms. I’ve decided I’m going to discontinue using automation in favor of manually writing posts for each of the platforms I want to post to. I’m doing this for 3…
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safari.requestMIDIAccess()
Jeremy Keith recently wrote about Bugblogging: Bugblogging doesn’t need to involve a solution. Just documenting a bug is a good thing to do. I wonder what Germanic compound word Jeremy would come up with to describe blogging about a web API that your favorite browser doesn’t support? Safari does not support navigator.requestMIDIAccess. I dug around…
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Jeremy Keith’s blog turns 20
Happy belated Anniversary to Jeremy Keith’s blog. Jeremy Keith: 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…
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Unmark listed on Awesome Self-Hosted Software list
Awesome-Selfhosted on GitHub: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers Glad to see Unmark listed there. Via this article on Vice via Jeremy Keith. In the 90s and early 2000s I ran everything on my own hardware in my apartment and eventually co-located. This…
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My current opinion of crypto
If you believe crypto is the future, or if you believe it is a pyramid scheme, please read this entire post so that you understand my current opinion on crypto. I hope I articulate it well enough. Also, I want to state at the outset, almost every blog post or tweet about crypto ends up…
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Robin Rendle on blog post titles
Robin Rendle: I love it when blog post titles are indecipherable to search engines. There are exceptions, like when you want to document a technical thing and so you should have a blog post title describe that but the majority of the time I feel like blog post titles should sound like the chapters of…
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Lucy Bellwood on blogging
Lucy Bellwood: Some of it is using an RSS reader to change the cadence and depth of my consumption—pulling away from the quick-hit likes of social media in favor of a space where I can run my thoughts to their logical conclusion (and then sit on them long enough to consider whether or not they’re…
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Jeremy Keith’s typical day
Jeremy Keith, whom I tagged: Y’know, in the Before Times I think this would’ve been trickier. What with travelling and speaking, I didn’t really have a “typical” day …and I liked it that way. Now, thanks to The Situation, my days are all pretty similar. Waking up at 8:30 seems like such a luxury! I…
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My typical day
Here is a general overview of a typical day for me. Routine makes me happy but it also lends to my productivity. The more each day is the same the more I can accomplish. I’m sharing it because I would like to see other people post their typical days – as mundane as they may…
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Tim Bray on blogging
Tim Bray: But aren’t blogs dead? · Um, nope. Also, this bit: Since most of us don’t even try to monetize ’em, they’re pretty ad-free and thus a snappy reading experience. I’ve successfully monetized niche blogs in the past that made enough for a few incomes. I’ve only tried to monetize my personal blog a…
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Another bad reason not to blog \”I’m not a web developer\”
Jamie Tanna, in a post about why everyone should have a web site, and it isn’t that you have to be a web developer: Having a website and/or blog is not about being a web developer, nor about being a celebrity of sorts, but is about being a citizen of the Web. Read the entire…
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Another bad reason not to blog \”I’m not a web developer\”
Jamie Tanna, in a post about why everyone should have a web site, and it isn’t that you have to be a web developer: Having a website and/or blog is not about being a web developer, nor about being a celebrity of sorts, but is about being a citizen of the Web. Read the entire…
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Another bad reason not to blog \”I’m not a web developer\”
Jamie Tanna, in a post about why everyone should have a web site, and it isn’t that you have to be a web developer: Having a website and/or blog is not about being a web developer, nor about being a celebrity of sorts, but is about being a citizen of the Web. Read the entire…
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Another bad reason not to blog \”I’m not a web developer\”
Jamie Tanna, in a post about why everyone should have a web site, and it isn’t that you have to be a web developer: Having a website and/or blog is not about being a web developer, nor about being a celebrity of sorts, but is about being a citizen of the Web. Read the entire…
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Another bad reason not to blog \”I’m not a web developer\”
Jamie Tanna, in a post about why everyone should have a web site, and it isn’t that you have to be a web developer: Having a website and/or blog is not about being a web developer, nor about being a celebrity of sorts, but is about being a citizen of the Web. Read the entire…
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Another bad reason not to blog \”I’m not a web developer\”
Jamie Tanna, in a post about why everyone should have a web site, and it isn’t that you have to be a web developer: Having a website and/or blog is not about being a web developer, nor about being a celebrity of sorts, but is about being a citizen of the Web. Read the entire…
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Another bad reason not to blog \”I’m not a web developer\”
Jamie Tanna, in a post about why everyone should have a web site, and it isn’t that you have to be a web developer: Having a website and/or blog is not about being a web developer, nor about being a celebrity of sorts, but is about being a citizen of the Web. Read the entire…
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Brendan Dawes on Adobe
Brendan Dawes: After twenty three years of using Adobe products in a professional capacity, I’ve now moved away from them as a company as I find there subscription model not something I can partake in, especially when they can suddenly decide to switch off older versions of the CS suite, making those programs you might…
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Best of 2018
This year I’m taking a slightly more comprehensive approach to my “best of” list. I’ve taken a look at previous year’s lists: 2008, 2009, 2017 and comprised a slightly more complete set. Again, this is only the things I came across this year and can remember. I don’t keep a list throughout the year but…
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Jeremy Keith on Edge switching to Chromium
Jeremy Keith: There’s just no sugar-coating this. I’m sure the decision makes sound business sense for Microsoft, but it’s not good for the health of the web. His reaction is very similar to mine. His call to action is too.
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Want something? Write it down
Mark Boulton, on asking people to formally write down their requests: Next time someone asks you to do something, try it. I bet 3 times out of 10, they say ‘oh it doesn’t matter’. You’ll have that time back. They’ll be a little wiser and have a lower heart rate. Good post. Jump over to…
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Austin Kleon on daily blogging
Austin Kleon: Also, quite frankly, Twitter turned into a cesspool almost overnight. My friend Alan Jacobs was very vocal about his split from Twitter, and after reading his vibrant blog and new book, How To Think, I just decided to give daily blogging a go again, and this time, to do it on my URL, on my old-school WordPress blog,…
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The Apple Watch is less obtrusive than a phone
Jeremy Keith: I’m always shocked when I’m out and about with someone who has their phone set up to notify them of any activity—a mention on Twitter, a comment on Instagram, or worst of all, an email. The thought of receiving a notification upon receipt of an email gives me the shivers. Me too. I…
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Colin Walker on the IndieWeb
Colin Walker: Yet there is still a problem, and that is the apparent insistence on the implementation of specific technologies as implied by the guides and documentation. Go read his entire post. There are all sorts of "problems" with the IndieWeb and Walker lays some of them out nicely. (Remember, I told you to subscribe…
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Jeremy Keith on JSON Feed
Jeremy Keith: I don’t know if syndication feeds have yet taken on their final form, but they’re the canonical example of 927ing. 🙂 See also.
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Tim Bray on blogging in 2017
Tim Bray: On a blog, I can write about blogging and whimsically toss in self-indulgent pictures of May’s budding azaleas. OK, Tim. I see your azaleas and raise you these springtails. Tim’s post via Jason Kottke and Jeremy Keith. See also.
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Looking beyond launch
Jeremy Keith regarding Clearleft’s upcoming rebrand: I think it’s good to remember that this is the web. I keep telling myself that we’re not unveiling something carved in stone. Even after the launch we can keep making the site better. In fact, if we wait until everything is perfect before we launch, we’ll probably never…
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Resilient Web Design
Jeremy Keith: Resilient Web Design is a short book. It’s between sixteen and seventeen megawords long. You could read the whole thing in a couple of hours. Or—because the book has seven chapters—you could take fifteen to twenty minutes out of a day to read one chapter and you’d have read the whole thing done…
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Google’s AMP is a gilded cage
Terence Eden: If, like me, you made the mistake of trying out AMP on your website – you’re in a tricky position if you try to remove it. Google doesn’t like anything leaving its clutches. I appreciate nothing about AMP. In fact, I don’t click any links that use it in protest. /via Jeremy Keith.
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Tweeting for 10 years
Last week Jeremy Keith reminded me, yet again, of an anniversary I share with him. That is, we’ve now both been tweeting for 10 years. Here is my first tweet. Jeremy beat me by 6 days and only 5,000 tweets. Can you believe that back then only 5,000 tweets were sent in 6 days? These…
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Eleven and six and twenty
Thanks to Jeremy for remarking how he forgot his blog’s 15th anniversary (congrats Jeremy!) it reminded me to check and, well, I missed my blog’s anniversary by nearly the same number of days as he did. On Saturday October 1 this blog, my personal blog on my own domain name but not my first ever personal blog,…
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My #FollowFriday recommendations
Today I decided to go through the list of accounts that I follow on Twitter and cherry-pick those I think others should consider following and why. I’ve tweeted all of the suggestions but I also wanted to catalog them here on my blog. @jensimmons – Jen is writing tons of CSS tests so you don’t have to.…
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Owning my words and photos and audio bits
Jeremy Keith wrote on his blog about owning his words, or, being willing to publish his words (snarky or otherwise) on his own site under his own name. I recommend you read his entire post. But this bit stood out: I wish I could articulate how much better it feels to only use Twitter (or…
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Idle Words
I had no idea that Maciej Cegłowski, operator of Pinboard, had a personal blog chocked full of great writing. Did you? How did I miss this? I’m only now aware of this due to Jeremy Keith’s writing about Maciej’s Kickstarter. He’s looking to travel to Antarctica and write about the experience. At first I thought……
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Jeremy Keith wrote 100 words for 100 days
What an amazing feat by Jeremy Keith: I missed the daily deadline once. I could make the excuse that it was a really late night of carousing, but I knew in advance that I was going to be out so I could’ve written my 100 words ahead of time—I didn’t. I didn’t go twelve days…
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Two needs for deep linking
What are Deep Links? Scott Rosenberg recently wrote a piece on Backchannel on Medium about Deep Links. He wrote: Deep linking means to bore a wormhole-tunnel that hops you directly from a specific spot in one app to a spot in another, no side trip to a browser or a home screen needed. You get…
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100words by Jeremy Keith
I’m loving this series of posts by Jeremy Keith tagged 100words.
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HTML 5 is now a W3C Recommendation
This was slated for 2022 at one point. I’m very happy to see things leveling off with this recommendation by the W3C. As Jeremy Keith said in his comments about this event on HTML5 Doctor: On the one hand, it doesn’t really matter whether HTML5 is W3C recommendation or not. After all, what really matters…
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The future of blogging
I don’t know what the future of blogging is. I go back and forth between feeling that the glory days are long over to feeling that the best is yet to come. Some think that today’s social web, while it has stifled blogging tremendously, will still end up providing some value to independent blogs in…
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Move the web forward
Jeremy Keith, on his personal blog: It is entirely possible—nay, desirable—to use features long before they are supported in every browser. That’s how we move the web forward. If we waited until there was universal support for a feature before we used it, we’d still be using CSS 1.0 and HTML 2.0. We agree. For…
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Communication for America
Jeremy’s title. Not mine. Jeremy Keith chimes in about remote work (see last post) and the advantages the “time shift” can have when working on large client projects: As it turned out, it wasn’t a problem at all. In fact, it worked out nicely. At the end of every day, we had a quick conference call,…