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

@mathowie @anildash @gknauss Exactly this.

First print on the not-P2S — managed to do a quick logistical shuffle and get an X2D instead!

Followup: a whole lot of you recommended the Bambu P2S, so that’s what I went with; it should be here in a week or so. Thank you to everyone who replied! I really appreciate all the help.

Rather unexpectedly, a 3D printer is soon to enter my life (long story). It seems like printers are either entry-level $300-$400, or higher-end $1,000+. Is there anything worthwhile in the $750 area? This will be hobby-use only, not for business purposes or mass production. It cannot be resin for a variety of reasons, and I will not budge on this.

And the second print, which is also the first practical print. We have baby gates that go back to our first child, and when she had a child of her own, we put the gates back up. In short order, the plastic mounting brackets shattered. Those (20+ years old!) parts aren’t made any more, but someone had recreated them and posted a file, so I downloaded and printed two. The make-and-share internet is still there, and it warms my heart to partake of it.

All you fascists bound to lose.

I am “found out I have a six inch (13cm) wide livid but pain-free bruise with no idea how or why I would have a bruise of ANY size there” years old.

Conversation during the 50th Front-End Study Hall (https://indieweb.org/Front_End_Study_Hall) this past Tuesday sparked a goofy idea, so I brought it to life with a quick in-browser mockup and a little @acornapp work.

Texting in 2026.

@blogdiva Kinda already there: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/at-largest-ice-detention-camp-staff-bet-on-detainee-suicides-ap-reports/

As of today, Windows 1.0 was released closer to the end of fighting in World War II than to the present.

I saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some *respect* on its *name*.

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