Notices by Eric A. Meyer (meyerweb@mastodon.social), page 3

@molly0xfff It’s… it’s so *beautiful*.

I finally followed a link to Patreon’s new logo explainer. This is the entirety of the page I received. Good work, everyone. No notes.

Exactly 20 years and 20 minutes ago, this happened.

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.

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.

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.

#CSS file: `flex: calc(sin(var(--pageDepth)) * 0.343) 1 auto;`

Me: weird flex but okay

This is full of truth about tech conferences. It lays out why the US independent conference scene has collapsed, and the headwinds anyone thinking of moving into that space will face. I haven’t really said (and may never say) much about the end of AEA, but this is a damned good stand-in. https://remotesynthesis.com/blog/developer-conferences/

I’d been hearing about the coal-mine protests in Germany, but this photo by Sean Gallup is the first that gave me a real sense of the titanic size of the thing and what’s being protested. Just… unreal.

Uh… what happened to https://mastodon.social/@Meyerweb/109430741858138880? I can’t see it, either in threads or by going there directly.

Great, apparently I somehow managed to delete my first-ever viral toot. And people were finding it so useful, too. ?

@cdevroe I suspect they have better and much more pressing things to do right now than look into a single-toot loss, but I appreciate the thought.