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

⌨️ I blogged about what I’d like to see come to #CSS in 2025. Some of my wishes are repeats from past years, but it was nice to see how many past wishes have (or are about to) come true! https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/01/08/css-wish-list-2025/

“Ultimately, even as HTML has become the province of professionals, it cannot be gatekept. This is what makes so many programmers so anxious about the web, and sometimes pathetically desperate to maintain the all-too-real walls they’ve erected between software engineers and web developers. But people who write HTML know that hierarchies were made to be blown up. All it takes is a tag that doesn’t close where you’d expect it to.”

–@tim, in https://www.wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/

Addendum: I do not wish for flying cars. I’ve seen how people pilot non-flying cars.

Every year since about 2007 has felt like a it’s year from out of the future, but somehow “2025” feels way more future-y than the others. It’s an affront that the actual reality of 2025 is so retrograde.

As much as I sneer at the way trailers have pre-trailer trailers now, I’m dreading the day someone decides to give the pre-trailer trailer its own trailer and thereby accelerate our descent into unhinged insanity.

Reality is being written by a malfunctioning Markov chain generator.

(Hat tip: @cstross)

Reality continues to be written by a malfunctioning Markov chain generator.

Reality continues to be written by a malfunctioning Markov chain generator.

@cstross Reality continues to be written by a malfunctioning Markov chain generator.

Reality continues to be written by a malfunctioning Markov chain generator. (hat tip: @estelle)

Reality continues to be written by a malfunctioning Markov chain generator.

@nina_kali_nina Fear not, @zachleat is here to help! https://www.zachleat.com/web/snow-fall/

’Tis once again the season to hold this timeless holiday message close to our hearts.

If you’re writing #SVG and want to put a stroke or halo around your text that doesn’t overwrite the letters:

`svg text {paint-order: stroke fill;}`

You’re welcome. #CSS

This afternoon, while hanging out with my ~14 month old granddaughter, I figured out how to play “Baby Shark” on her toy xylophone. So I went with it, because it’s one of her favorite songs.

On the third or fourth repeat, she turned to me, gave me just the kindest smile, and took the mallet away from me.

Remember: if you see somebody shoot a health insurance CEO, no you didn’t.

In every relationship there is one person who loads the grocery belt like a Scandinavian architect, and one who loads it like a racoon on crystal meth.

It’s really uncanny how much Nancy Mace sounds like Nancy Grace.

@brad_frost This is how meyerweb.com is run; my way to do that is everything outside WP is static files with SSIs for header/footer inclusion, plus the occasional PHP page where I need some kind of local computation. It’s kind of soothing to open up an SFTP client (Transmit for me) and just edit stuff directly, honestly.

News today that in his will, Henry Kissinger directed funds should be spent to erect a monument to him in Arlington National Cemetery.

Entire sections of Arlington already stand as a monument to your work, Henry. That will have to suffice.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/05/henry-kissingers-final-monumental-request-00187290