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Jeremy Keith
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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.

https://adactio.com
Journal: Installing web apps

Here’s an HTML web component you can use if you’re participating in the origin trial for the Web Install API.

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22278
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Belfast TradFest back in July.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22275
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Reposted by Jeremy Keith
Come on, tell me you don't want a day of listening to these brilliant people (and me) talk about what we can do in browsers nowadays‽

webdayout.com/agenda/#sche...

You won't be learning any of it from ChatGTP any time soon!

10% off code: JOIN_RICH

#css #javascript #html
Web Day Out Agenda
The agenda for this one-day event in Brighton on March 12th, 2026.
webdayout.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Today was my last working day for 2025. I’m off until January. Christmas starts now!

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22273
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Journal: The schedule for Web Day Out

Eight fantastic talks in one day! You’ll want to be in Brighton on 12 March 2026.

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22272
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Reposted by Jeremy Keith
Why use React?

This isn’t a rhetorical question... Jeremy Keith genuinely wants to know why developers choose to build websites using React...

clearleft.com/thinking/why...
Why use React?
This isn’t a rhetorical question. I genuinely want to know why developers choose to build websites using React.
clearleft.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Wednesday session

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22269
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Reposted by Jeremy Keith
I wanted to write about this for a long time, but @adactio.com did it first and definitely better. Web frameworks should be invisible to the user, they serve us developers. Users don't care, and shouldn't pay the price neither.
Why use React?
Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?
adactio.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by Jeremy Keith
AI won't replace you. An executive who doesn't understand AI or your job will.
June 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Journal: Why use React?

Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22265
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Reposted by Jeremy Keith
I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick.

It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Journal: A child’s Halloween in Ireland

Barmbrack, apples, and monkey-nuts.

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22263
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Thursday session

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22262
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Journal: Manuel Matuzovič is speaking at Web Day Out

The line-up is now complete and you don’t want to miss this!

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22261
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Wednesday session

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22260
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Reposted by Jeremy Keith
“I think that most developers have the mental model of JavaScript frameworks completely backwards. They believe that the framework saves them time and effort …. Instead these frameworks are simply limiting the possibility space of what you can do in web browsers today.”

adactio.com/journal/22235
Providers
Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that?
adactio.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Never mind Cloudflare; the electricity has gone out in our street.

It’s actually kinda nice, playing mandolin by candlelight.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22257
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Journal: The premature sheen

Brian Eno on prototyping and fidelity.

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22256
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Front page of the BBC right now.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22255
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Closing out #ffconf with Erika’s chickens.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22253
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Kicking off #ffconf!

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22251
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I’m definitely going to be sent on a side quest.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22250
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
> Technology isn’t destiny, no matter how inexorable its evolution may seem; the way its capabilities are used is as much a matter of cultural choice and historical accident as politics is, or fashion.

— M. Mitchell Waldrop

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22249
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Hanging out with Coco.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22245
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM