Hyperlinks hand-picked by Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England.
The unveiling ceremony is scheduled for September 29th : The Milestone plaque recognizing Colossus is to be displayed outside Block H at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, England. The plaque is to read: Six Colossus codebreaking computers operated in this building in 1944–1945. Designed by Thomas H. Flowers of the British Post Office, they enabled deciphering of encrypted radio messages…
I m quite touched that I make an appearance in this great talk from Ana. adactio.com/links/22714
Doomerism always feels to me like a psyop designed to keep people dispirited. adactio.com/links/22713
Exactly one of these ridiculously deep holes in the Earth is dug by hand. It s about 2 miles from my house . adactio.com/links/22710
I really, really, really like this proposal! This would absolutely turbo-charge cross-document view transitions with nary a line of JavaScript in sight. adactio.com/links/22686
An excellent interview! From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it. adactio.com/links/22660
This is beautifully written. adactio.com/links/22659
I can’t understand how we got to this place with “app culture”! Software companies are happy to make their lives harder (and more expensive : deploying to the big app stores isn’t free!), in order to deliver HTML content to fewer people and with fewer features than if they just published directly to the Web in the first place! adactio.com/links/22653
So instead of asking why not React? we asked: Which of our actual problems would React solve? We went through the list. There were none. Also, this is good advice when you re about to make a web component: Every component starts with the question does a semantic element already exist for this? , and remarkably often the answer is yes. adactio.com/links/22652
A history of front-end development that culminates here: The frontier of 2026, the stuff the sharpest people are most excited about, is render the HTML on the server, ship almost no JavaScript, and use the web platform instead of fighting it . adactio.com/links/22650
Digital memory is fragile not because bits decay (though they do), but because someone else owns the shelf . adactio.com/links/22649
Alex takes issue with my post giving kudos to Apple for concentrating on bugfixes in the latest version of Safari , and he brings receipts. He makes a very compelling case, backed up with data. But when it comes to Chrome’s shipping of the half-baked prompt API, I’m not sure he gets just how badly it has soured the developer community’s feelings towards Google. This isn’t something to be countered…
I saw Josh give this talk at CSS Day. It s a very useful explanation of the forthcoming text-scale addition to the meta element, and what you can do to prepare your site now. adactio.com/links/22644
Nothing about the current trajectory of AI development is inevitable. It was shaped by the thousands of subjective decisions of a tiny elite, and continues its march based on the active participation and tacit consent of people globally. adactio.com/links/22635
Put the kettle on. Marcin has another magnum opus on interaction design for you to read …and interact with. adactio.com/links/22633
Here’s the talk I gave yesterday at Na Píobairí Uilleann in Dublin all about The Session . True to the title, I played some notes on my mandolin to accompany the narrative. adactio.com/links/22625
This is excellent advice and I m glad to see this getting addressed nice and early in the era of customisable select elements: always provide text content or accessible text attributes for your option elements. adactio.com/links/22620
Storied Colors is a catalogue of named colors — pigments, dyes, lakes, glazes, and a small number of digital hues — each accompanied by the documentary evidence required to call it by its name. The launch corpus opens at two hundred and fifty entries. It is maintained as a single-author project. adactio.com/links/22618
This is a great case study featuring a really useful HTML web component called validation-enhancer . The results? When we launched, the number of people completing the form doubled. The analytics people didn’t even know where these users were coming from. Of course, your javascript-based analytics package doesn’t see the users you are bouncing because of javascript failures. It was a flood!…
This is a very handy playground for exploring the brand new masonry grid lanes layout. adactio.com/links/22606