Eric Meyer
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.
- Reposted by Eric MeyerI told ye all, When we first put this dangerous stone a-rolling, ’Twould fall upon ourselves.
- Reposted by Eric MeyerI 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”
- Reposted by Eric MeyerHappy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!
- Reposted by Eric MeyerHuge 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.
- Reposted by Eric MeyerCan 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.
- 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.
- Far too many men will be unable to figure this logo out.
- Reposted by Eric MeyerI'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
- Reposted by Eric MeyerI 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.
- Given the extent to which these jabronis and their cultists fetishize Imperial Rome, I’m surprised he didn’t order a switch to Trajan.
- Reposted by Eric MeyerGotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
- 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.”
- For *vastly* different reasons, “The Piano” (the soundtrack to which I nevertheless adore) and “Beasts of the Southern Wild”.
- Reposted by Eric MeyerWhen 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
- Reposted by Eric Meyerever 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
- “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...
- *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the bunny is racist
- Thanks a lot, Elon, you sociopathic simpleton.
- The Trump administration is directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children: www.wsj.com/health/for-f...
- Reposted by Eric MeyerThis Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
- Reposted by Eric MeyerThe 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
- 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...
- Reposted by Eric MeyerOn Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
- Reposted by Eric MeyerHey 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.
- Reposted by Eric MeyerGecko: Intent to ship: CSS Anchor Positioning
- Reposted by Eric Meyer🎙️ 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...
- Reposted by Eric MeyerJob posting: Web Administration & Multimedia Technologist @smithsonian American Women's Museum. Closing date: 12/11/2025; GS12: $101,401 to - $131,826/yr. Onsite, Washington, DC. Responsible for web services/operating support for public website & mobile application of media technologies.
- Pete Hegseth, Admiral Mitch Bradley, and an unknown (to me) number of military personnel are either war criminals or mass murderers. There really is no other option. www.forever-wars.com/pete-hegseth...
- Reposted by Eric MeyerThe CSS is Awesome Game on Winging It is coming up soon and we would love your help. We made a 5-question CSS-based survey if you have a minute to spare. We are excited to include more audience participation this year. tally.so/r/QKoaEY
- I have tried a Krispy Kreme sour cream donut and I can report that they are notably less mediocre than the standard Krispy Kreme glazed donut. Still not all that great, mind you, but might be worth trying if you find yourself stuck on a Krispy Kreme run or something.
- Reposted by Eric MeyerI’m often asked for freelance UI/UX designer recommendations, but my list is out of date — most folks I used to refer are now full-time or doing other work. Time to fix that. If you’re an independent UI/UX designer doing hands-on client work, drop your website/portfolio! DM/email fine too. [1/2]
- New reaction pic just dropped
- When Twitter doubled its post length limit, the very first thing I posted was a Tom Stoppard quote. Here’s hoping his exit is an entrance elsewhere. www.npr.org/2025/11/29/1...
- Reposted by Eric MeyerThanks for reading, Mr. President
- Reposted by Eric MeyerI guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video
- Every paragraph of this article is a banger. “We don’t need to reinvent styling. We just need to respect the boundaries that made the web work in the first place. CSS is not broken; our discipline is. The answer isn’t more abstraction—it’s better understanding.” thenewstack.io/css-in-js-th...
- Reposted by Eric MeyerThe guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
- Reposted by Eric MeyerJocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy #OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar. She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. (1/n) 🧪 🔭 👩🔬 ⚛️
- Reposted by Eric MeyerIgalia has been working on MathML interoperability across browser engines & my colleague wrote about what they've been working on so far: conflor.es/blog/2025-11...
- Reposted by Eric MeyerWe are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
- One of the greatest tricks the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world the New York Times is left-leaning.
- “Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
- Okay, I haven’t watched the Macys Parade for quite a few years, and I’m confused. Are the performers these days expected to convincingly lip-sync, or are they expected NOT to?
- Reposted by Eric MeyerUNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
- I grew up Midwest Protestant, I am unable to accept or remember compliments
- Reposted by Eric MeyerI didn't think that this voicemail message for this municipal district a thousand miles away would make me cry, but it did. I'd say these guys need to be running the country but they seem to be exactly where they need to be
- Reposted by Eric MeyerImportant to repost this every time Lizza drops another substack
- Reposted by Eric MeyerCSS is so powerful now, it's amazing looking through older CSS and seeing what can be replaced with a one-liner. I'm on the hunt for snippets that used to be multiple lines of CSS that can now be done in one. Show me what you got!
- You will be visited by three spirits. The three spirits.
- Reposted by Eric MeyerWe’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing
- Reposted by Eric MeyerThis is exactly right
- Reposted by Eric MeyerStarting with Firefox 145, the Trusted Types API, primarily aimed at preventing cross-site scripting attacks, is now enabled in Nightly. Work by my @igalia.com colleague Frédéric Wang
- What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss, Charlie Brown
- You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. THAT’S the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone, Charlie Brown.
- They’re heeere, Charlie Brown.
- Wait. Wait wait wait. Lizza PAYWALLED part 2 of his Temu Penthouse Forum blog? LOL LMAO ROFLMAO LOLOFLCOPTERRRRRR
