Tagged: jeremy-keith

  • Adactio: Journal—Mind set

    Ah! Good old Jeremy Keith, insightful and funny.

    If I really want to change someone’s mind, then I need to make the effort to first understand their mind. That’s going to be far more productive than declaring that my own mind is made up. After all, if I show no willingness to consider alternative viewpoints, why should they?

    There’s an old saying that before criticising someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. I’m going to try to put that into practice, and not for the two obvious reasons:

    1. If we still disagree, now we’re a mile away from each other, and
    2. I’ve got their shoes.

  • Adactio: Journal—HTML web components

    Jeremy Keith discusses what makes a custom element an HTML web component.

    If your custom element is empty, it’s not an HTML web component. But if you’re using a custom element to extend existing markup, that’s an HTML web component.

    React encouraged a mindset of replacement: “forgot [sic] what browsers can do; do everything in a React component instead, even if you’re reinventing the wheel.”

    HTML web components encourage a mindset of augmentation instead.