Meyerweb

Meyerweb, 9 months ago to random

Exactly 20 years and 20 minutes ago, this happened.

A clip of the classic “Badgers Badgers” meme.

Meyerweb, 5 months ago to random

'tis the season for us to hold this timeless message close to our hearts.

Meyerweb, 5 months ago to random

BRING BACK THE 3D PAGE INSPECTOR YOU COWARDS

Meyerweb, 22 days ago to random

OpenAI stealing Scarlett’s voice for their new product after being told “no” is so perfectly on-brand, it’s almost painful. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

Meyerweb, 11 months ago to random

Twitter learned, and Reddit is fast learning, that people are not addicted to the platform, they’re addicted to the community they found there. Ruin the community, and people will leave the platform. It really is that simple.

Meyerweb, 9 months ago to random

📝🫗 I wrote about #mollyholzschlag and a very, very few of the stories from our shared history. And I included some photos of her from years past. https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/09/06/memories-of-molly/

Meyerweb, 9 months ago to random

A groundbreaker, a force of nature, a pioneer, a friend. We could make each other laugh and cry and laugh until we cried. Once we randomly met Little Richard in a hotel lobby. She shaped more of today’s web than you can imagine, unless you were there. There were none like her, and never will be again. Godspeed, Mols.

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090523_molly_holzschlag/

Meyerweb, 9 months ago to random

Phil Connors (Bill Murray) from ‘Groundhog Day’, holding a microphone as he looks into the camera, saying “Well, it’s Indictment Day… again.”

Meyerweb, 10 months ago to random

I know I have very little ground on which to comment on the beauty of a typeface, but this variable font is SO GOOD and I really wish I’d found it before “CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition” published a month back, because it would have been perfect for the examples in the Fonts chapter.

Try out all the features and variability of Elstob at https://psb1558.github.io/Elstob-font/, which also links to a Github repository where you can get it.

Meyerweb, 9 months ago to random

Clearly this is what the Shapiros and Rowlings of the world and their associated lampreys mean by “go woke, go broke”.

Meyerweb, 4 months ago to random

If Apple sticks to their declared intentions, web devs outside the EU won’t be able to test their sites/webapps/whatever against the non-WebKit iOS browsers that will exist in the EU.

So, get ready for aggressive browser sniffing and “best viewed in/please switch to” badges making a comeback, because those are easy responses to this. Not good responses, at all, but humans are nothing if not lazy.

Meyerweb, 1 year ago to random

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.

Meyerweb, 11 months ago to SpaceX

BREAKING: Elon Musk announces #SpaceX will refuse all Moon missions because they require performing a translunar injection burn in order to cross cislunar space

Meyerweb, 8 months ago to random

god: i have made a Single page webapp

angels: you fucked up a perfectly good website is what you did. look at it. it’s got dependency injections

Meyerweb, 7 months ago to random

🖨️ I just published ~3500 words on my journey to understanding and appreciating web components. It has lots of example code more or less straight from production, interactive CodePen embeds, Shadow DOM shade, an <aside> that’s actually an aside, the works. Share and enjoy! https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/11/01/blinded-by-the-light-dom/

Meyerweb, 6 months ago to random

It’s been 30 years since I typed my first HTML tags. Sometimes I wonder how many more years of that I have before me, but I do kind of hope I at least make it another 20. Anyway, here’s a two-minute read about that night and what, exactly, I was marking up — including a link to a copy of that very first page.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/12/06/three-decades-of-html/

Meyerweb, 10 months ago to random

Phil Connors (Bill Murray) from “Groundhog Day”, looking directly into a camera while holding a news microphone and saying, “Well, it’s indictment day… again.”

Meyerweb, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

It was 50 years ago on a night just like tonight… Why, tonight's the anniversary! Worst accident I ever seen.

Meyerweb, 1 month ago to random

Google Vault out here reminding people to destroy evidence of their crimes, just in case they forgot.

Meyerweb, 6 months ago to random

I know a couple who met in front-end coding bootcamp and ran off to get married without telling anyone beforehand. And that was the day they truly became web dev elopers.

Meyerweb, 5 months ago to random

"In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70… weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1."

Okay, sure, but Cray came with a built-in couch to sit on. Checkmate, Raspberries.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/31/0017205/how-a-cray-1-supercomputer-compares-to-a-raspberry-pi

Meyerweb, 2 months ago to random

Every time I see a reference to Hugging Face, this is what I envision.

Meyerweb, 2 months ago to random

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and the time an online recipe promises it will take to prepare a meal.

Meyerweb, 5 months ago to random

This is exactly the kind of detailed, in-the-weeds, nerdy post I love and wish I had written myself. It’s also supported by some really nice figures that clearly convey what’s being investigated, which makes me triply envious. And to top it all off, it’s a nicely short post with potentially useful information, which at this point is really just showing off. https://bjango.com/articles/blurradiuscomparison/

Meyerweb, 1 month ago to random

‘"We thought the best way to sustainably deescalate the situation was to actually talk with our students," Northwestern President Michael Schill told WBUR's Here and Now.’

Amazing. Who could have guessed, what were the odds, etc., etc.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/07/1249368151/gaza-college-protest-deal-brown-rutgers