Jeremy Keith
@adactio.com
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
I play traditional Irish music on mandolin and I play slide bouzouki in the band Salter Cane.
https://adactio.com
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
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.
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
AI won't replace you. An executive who doesn't understand AI or your job will.
Journal: Why use React?
Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22265
Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22265
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Journal: Why use React?
Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22265
Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22265
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"
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
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"
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"
Journal: A child’s Halloween in Ireland
Barmbrack, apples, and monkey-nuts.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22263
Barmbrack, apples, and monkey-nuts.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22263
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Journal: A child’s Halloween in Ireland
Barmbrack, apples, and monkey-nuts.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22263
Barmbrack, apples, and monkey-nuts.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22263
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
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
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
The line-up is now complete and you don’t want to miss this!
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22261
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
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
“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
adactio.com/journal/22235
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
It’s actually kinda nice, playing mandolin by candlelight.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22257
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 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
It’s actually kinda nice, playing mandolin by candlelight.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22257
Journal: The premature sheen
Brian Eno on prototyping and fidelity.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22256
Brian Eno on prototyping and fidelity.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22256
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Journal: The premature sheen
Brian Eno on prototyping and fidelity.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22256
Brian Eno on prototyping and fidelity.
🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22256
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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
— M. Mitchell Waldrop
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22249
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 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
— M. Mitchell Waldrop
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22249
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Reposted by Jeremy Keith
Reposted by Jeremy Keith
“When you use a JavaScript framework, that isn’t the end of your work, it’s just the beginning. You still have to write your own code that makes use of that framework. Except now your code is restricted to only what the framework can do.”
I’d even drop “JavaScript” from that sentence 😉
I’d even drop “JavaScript” from that sentence 😉
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
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
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“When you use a JavaScript framework, that isn’t the end of your work, it’s just the beginning. You still have to write your own code that makes use of that framework. Except now your code is restricted to only what the framework can do.”
I’d even drop “JavaScript” from that sentence 😉
I’d even drop “JavaScript” from that sentence 😉
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM