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.
- I told ye all, When we first put this dangerous stone a-rolling, ’Twould fall upon ourselves.
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- Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
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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”
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- Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!
- 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.
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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
- 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
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- Gecko: Intent to ship: CSS Anchor Positioning
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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...
- The 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
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- I’m often asked for freelance UI/UX designer recommendations, but my list is out of date — most folks I used to refer are now full-time or doing other work.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]
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- Thanks for reading, Mr. President
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- Jocelyn 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) 🧪 🔭 👩🔬 ⚛️
- Igalia 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...
- We 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.
- I 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
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- Important to repost this every time Lizza drops another substack
- CSS 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!
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- Another good reason to avoid being on X is that Isaac Chotiner could start asking you questions there at any time
- This is exactly right
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- Starting 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
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- Valve’s announcements last week about their new hardware were particularly welcome here at Igalia: a lot of our work will be in those machines. From translation layers to better frame rates and longer battery life, we’ve helped @valvesoftware.com push gaming forward. www.igalia.com/2025/11/help...
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