Eric Meyer
meyerweb.com
Eric Meyer
@meyerweb.com
Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Old enough for it to hurt when I stand up, not old enough to have stopped noticing. Agnostic in principle, atheist in practice, #CSS guy, mzungu. I’m only here for the food.
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Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch it repeated by those who didn’t.
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I told ye all,
When we first put this dangerous stone a-rolling,
’Twould fall upon ourselves.
December 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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I just read the new SPINAL TAP book and there’s a moment where Rob Reiner and the rest of the cast ask each other which projects will lead their obituary. Rob was sure “Meathead” was going to be the first line of his.

Tonight, everyone’s teeing off with “one of the greatest directing runs ever”
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!
December 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Huge Servo milestone: thanks to a swift response to a bug I reported, the Servo browser (https://servo.org) can now play Deltarune Dot Com's 404 page correctly.
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Can anyone point me towards resources/people in the Twin Cities who could help someone rid their PC, Android device, etc of surveillance software installed by an abusive partner? She's getting a burner phone tomorrow but her whole digital life and business has been corrupted.
December 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Today I learned that rich people have no idea how US health insurance and laws like EMTALA actually work.

Okay, I didn’t learn that, I already knew. It’s just funny to me that he came right out and said so and doesn’t have the self-respect to delete it.
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.

What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?

Who in the USA gov runs the program?

R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Far too many men will be unable to figure this logo out.
Anthropic has chosen a perhaps unfortunate banner image for its AI for Nonprofits course
December 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I'm hiring a Director of Product Engineering for our product team at @propublica.org. If you're an engineering leader in the US who wants to truly make a difference, we're a nonprofit newsroom investigating abuses of trust in the public interest. Please consider joining us. #amhiring
Director, Product Engineering
New York City, United States; Remote, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
December 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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I remember doing the deal for Epic Mickey, and Bob Iger shooting laser beams out his eyes at me in the Disney dining room. “Don’t let this video game fuck up Mickey.”

Oh well. That’s over.
BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Given the extent to which these jabronis and their cultists fetishize Imperial Rome, I’m surprised he didn’t order a switch to Trajan.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is what I’m getting when trying to use Bluesky on desktop, so on the assumption that this will spread to the mobile client, it looks as if my time here will be coming to a close. Ah well. As Kermit the Frog once said, “Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it.”
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
For *vastly* different reasons, “The Piano” (the soundtrack to which I nevertheless adore) and “Beasts of the Southern Wild”.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point
nah dawg this is petty as shit

these people got brainwashed with propaganda and fearmongering

wanting only people who didn't vote for Trump to survive is misanthropic and gross
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go
May 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
“We should publicly hang people who are a harm to society”, said the techbro billionaire without even a hint of a shred of self-awareness.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
*5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the bunny is racist
jaysus... now insta appears to generate titles/ headlines via AI for stuff I post... to create click bait for google wtf do not like
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Thanks a lot, Elon, you sociopathic simpleton.
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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The CSS is Awesome Game is coming up on Winging It and our first special guest joining @miriam.codes and me is @chriscoyier.net

Join us Thursday, December 18 at 1:00PM ET:
www.youtube.com/live/xcEnjGP...

We'd love your help by filling out our 5-question CSS survey! tally.so/r/QKoaEY
CSS Is Awesome Game - 2
A few of our CSS friends will join us for our second annual "CSS Is Awesome Game" on Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 1pm Eastern. If you love CSS as much as we do, then we hope you will watch and play ...
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is very much the cyberpunk future I was promised, more’s the pity.
Guys… it looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets. @evystadium.bsky.social gets into it.

Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:

www.404media.co/unauthorized...
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Hey all,

The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.

Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.

You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Gecko: Intent to ship: CSS Anchor Positioning
Gecko: Intent to ship: CSS Anchor Positioning
Gecko: Intent to ship: CSS Anchor Positioning
groups.google.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats - Web Backstories: Shadow DOM

@meyerweb.com and @bkardell.com chat with @jayhoffmann.bsky.social and @adactio.com about Shadow DOM's backstory and long origins

www.igalia.com/chats/shadow...
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM