Notices by Eric A. Meyer (meyerweb@mastodon.social)

I sequenced my hand and discovered this is what I had been dealt. I fib you not, G! #uno #math

Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231

Happy arbitrary Gregorian boundary condition.

Nearly every paragraph of this article is a certified 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.” https://thenewstack.io/css-in-js-the-great-betrayal-of-frontend-sanity/

Apparently the aurora is really popping off right now, but the northeast US is covered in clouds so womp womp.

If you’re in an unclouded area, though, get out there and look up. Yes, even down south.

Thinking about making a T-shirt that says “Web design is my passion” but it’s completely surrounded and partly obscured by popup video ads, sponsorship messages, cookie banners, and paywall login banners.

Me: Right, so it’s set in a world where the President is taking huge bribes while ignoring the law and sending troops into US cities.

Studio exec: …uh huh

Me: As “No Kings” protests erupt, the President broadcasts a faked video of himself flying a jet and dumping liquid shit all over the protesters while wearing a crown!

SE: what

Me: And then a couple days later, without any warning, he has part of the White House torn down by a demolition crew!

SE: Get the *fuck* out of my office, you hack

“I think the main thing that’s caused so much confusion is that he was always generally apolitical for the most part,” the friend told me. “That's the big thing, he just never really talked politics which is why it's so frustrating.” https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-leaked-messages-from-charlie

I don’t know a lot about software patterns, so I turn to the collective for help. I have three values. At any given time, one of them is frozen. When one of the unfrozen ones is changed, it changes the other unfrozen value in some way. Is there a known pattern for this that is efficient and doesn’t rely on a bunch of if/then or case statements, and if so, can someone point me at it?

The first episode of “South Park” aired closer to the Apollo 11 Moon landing than to today.

How is it halfway through the Year of Our Horde 2025 and there’s STILL no dedicated fist-bump emoji? I keep having to fake it with a 🤜🤛 two-step and frankly this is not the future I was promised.

@thomasfuchs Oh, CAMERA storage. I completely misread the context.

@thomasfuchs No Zip drive, no tag.

@bencurthoys @TheDefiant604 @Unixbigot The thing is, Temporal is time-zone aware and can do all kinds of conversions between them… which is probably why the programmer girls were so desperately needed, because Temporal can’t work without the time zone data files!

Please ensure both you and your horses are fully thawed before riding.

To all the mothers who have lost a child or children, whether before they were born or hours or days or years after, you are seen today and every day. I am so, so sorry for what you have had to suffer.

Apparently Pope Leo XIV has a degree in mathematics, so we can look forward to hearing his views on the nature of sin and cos.

I was today years old when I learned Major Eaton (“Top. Men.”) and Jek Porkins (”I can hold it!”) were the same guy. https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Eaton#Behind_the_scenes

“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin’
Four dead in Ohio…”

Fifty-five years ago today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

#MayThe4th

HEY LEICESTER (UK)! Go see the art show I wish I could be there to see, “Paint By Style Sheet”, an exhibition of pieces created with #HTML and #CSS, at Phoenix Leicester. https://www.phoenix.org.uk/events/paint-by-style-sheet/