Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Old enough for it to hurt when I stand up, not old enough to have stopped noticing. Agnostic in principle, atheist in practice, #CSS guy, mzungu. I’m only here for the food.
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Last Notes npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer “NASA uses Windows? Oh great. If Apollo 13 went off course today the manual would just tell them to open the airlock, flush the astronauts out, and re-install new ones.” —James “Kibo” Parry https://www.wired.com/story/artemis-ii-microsoft-outlook-problems/ npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Hey @nprofile…kkfs, thank you for including my familect in episode 1162! I was sort of hoping it would be part of episode 1161 because @nprofile…6p0k and I go back a ways, but this was a very close second best. Hoppaween! npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer 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*. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer For a brief moment of joy, set your phasers to FUN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj9tVfnzc9E npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Americans will use literally anything but the metric system, part #289,231 npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer When I was a lad, back in the days of Ford and Reagan, Republicans constantly told us that having to carry proof of citizenship was the kind of thing the Nazis and Soviets and other totalitarian regimes did. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Shades of the 1989 attack on Panama to capture Noriega. Only shades, though: pretty sure Bush hadn’t just pardoned another President for the exact same thing he then claimed to be attacking another country over. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer As of today, the North American release of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was closer to the end of World War II than to the present. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…y70r I acknowledge and accept this reality, but I refuse to get used to it. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD AND SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE? In THIS economy? npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer 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. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer 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. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Today I learned that the first known use of the term “brain rot” was in Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” (1854) and I do not know how to process this. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer As of today, Nintendo’s platform game “Super Mario Bros.” was released closer to the end of fighting in World War II than to the present day. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer This is one of the things destroying USAID has wrought. If there were any justice in the world, Musk and his DOGErs (at a bare minimum) would hear these screams every moment of every day for the rest of their lives. https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0 npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer It’s that time of year again: #interop2026 is now open for proposals from one and all! The window closes on the 24th of this month, so if there’s something you want to get in front of browser vendors to consider making more interoperable, now’s the time. More here: https://www.igalia.com/2025/09/04/Call-for-Proposals-Interop-2026.html npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…0zdp Data centers are where all the water is going, apparently, so it makes sense that ducks would head there. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…fynq @nprofile…2uaj Every time I revisit it, I do the Ellie Arroway “should have sent a poet” scene in my head. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…2uaj As far as I know, it wasn’t done on purpose. The author neglected to close their HTML `<h3>` tags, so the text just grows and grows thanks to the power of nested elements multiplying their size by 1.17. The largest text reaches 7999.96px! npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…2uaj Just tell everyone it was a callout to the infamous “Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide” page (if you’ve never seen it, be sure to scroll for the full effect): https://web.archive.org/web/20050213084339/https://www.sewingincanada.com/embtrb.htm npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I have a Sass-driven site I’ve inherited. There’s a `variables.scss` file that defines a bunch of color and media size and other variables; makes sense. But now I want to basically overwrite all those variables with new values for dark-mode purposes. Is there a way to easily do this in Sass? npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…6h3y September npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Resetting the “Days since I have used the word ‘orthogonal’ in a conversation” sign to zero. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…q87c I’m kind of the same, which is why I’m so hot on anchored positioning, which makes the far superior sidenotes easily possible. And coincidentally, I was just now working on a way to blend parentheticals in older browsers with sidenotes in supporting browsers, which I should absolutely write up to explore the pros and cons. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Please ensure both you and your horses are fully thawed before riding. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…6h3y Not Alito? Surprising. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer It’s still a tad lo-fi, but the #CSS `animation-range` exploring I’ve been doing has been turned into an interactive tool that shows where the start and end points of a scroll animation are, positioned for alignment with the leading edge of the thing being animated. https://codepen.io/meyerweb/pen/NPqjgRj. Please let me know if a value combination you throw at it gets something that doesn’t match the actual browser behavior! npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…upxh Unknown (to me). npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Republican Christianity, everybody. Let’s give it a big hand! npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I really appreciate the contrast of them claiming Spotlight is becoming the fastest way to access macOS content when mine is getting so slow (on an M2 Max MBP), I type the beginning of an app name (say, “1pa”) and then wait 5–10 seconds for it to realize I mean and autofill “1Password.app”. #wwdc npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…2uaj That’s the first time I’ve seen a situation where buying a home would cause the seller to take offence. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer My new favorite #CSS thing to do: npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer 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. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…6h3y No thanks! I’m a ditto machine man through and through. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…6h3y Okay, I never tried that with an IBM Selectric as a kid. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…6h3y wat npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Apparently Pope Leo XIV has a degree in mathematics, so we can look forward to hearing his views on sin and cos. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Bravo to the WebKit team! I’ve been coding with web-native color pickers recently for some internal tools I built, and these are exactly the things whose absence has tempted me to chuck the native pickers for JS-library-made pickers. https://webkit.org/blog/16900/p3-and-alpha-color-pickers/ npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer “Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’ npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I know I probably shouldn’t use it, but npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Can’t wait to unwittingly say “My hovercraft is full of eels” in whatever language I’m trying to learn. https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors, the family’s lawyer said.” npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer My mom was a primary school teacher in the latter half of the last century. During book-banning debates at her school system in the 1980s — over Dungeons & Dragons themed books, of course; Satanic Panic was in full swing — a speaker who’d been brought in by the banning side said that schools shouldn’t be allowed to teach critical thinking skills because if you needed a thought, God would give it to you. There was much agreement from the audience, she said. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I’m seeing a lot of people making fun of their incompetence for this, but that’s not what this is. This whole regime is a gang of bullies, headed by a bully, and like all bullies, they’re cowards. Stand up to them, and they whimper away. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer “If you don’t see all of this as one of the darkest days in American history, in which the President is openly embracing disappearing people without due process in the name of “liberty,” you are a part of the problem. Fascism has risen in America, and it is being aided by a foreign dictator whom Trump admires.” npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer This week has really driven home that the word “tariffs” ends with FFS. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Webdev used to be a proper profession. Look at what they took from us. https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/3d_view/index.html npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Earlier today, the #CSS WG resolved to consider a `:heading()` pseudo-class to apply styles to *adjusted* heading levels, contingent on the adoption of `headingoffset` and `headingreset` attributes in HTML (see https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10296). npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…4tpe Tim needs that notification a lot more than any of us anyway. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer American readers: please take a minute or two to go to https://ssa.gov to download the statement of your lifetime contributions and anticipated monthly payments upon retirement. You know, just in case it’s needed later on. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/229/932/158/915/686/original/27a197c9d05609e8.jpg npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Radiohead’s “OK Computer” was released closer to the Apollo 11 moon landing than to today. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I saw someone say that the person who ventilates Musk’s skull won’t be a crazed left-winger, it’ll be an enraged Social Security pensioner who stopped getting their checks. But maybe it will be the father of a dead cancer patient instead. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…5jwt The fediverse’s “Add personal note” feature on other people’s profiles is so incredibly handy for this, too. I can remind Future Me *why* I blocked someone. I love it! npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer We’ve reached the “legal residents with views and opinions the regime doesn’t like are arrested and disappeared” stage. Just in case you were wondering. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I don’t use Chrome a lot—mostly for Google Meets—and it seems like it’s getting jankier and less consistent with each new release. Just me, or is the deterioration real? npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…4tpe Open, Closed, and It’s Complicated npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I just saw a Youtube video titled, and I swear this is exactly as they had it, “Newtons First Law’s of Motion”. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…4tpe ☝️`this` npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Oh, I almost forgot: Happy Felon’s Day (U.S.) npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…5nyj A commercial craft, you mean? I feel like at least a few private planes have been successfully (if not pristinely) landed that way. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I have once more won Wham!ageddon. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer 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. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…6syu Whereas I’m the specific type of developer who speed-runs dismissing new tools by not using them in the first place. It’s efficient! #OldManYellsAtTheCloud npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Of late, Bluesky feels like the blacklights-and-bass opening night party at a trade show, while Mastodon feels like hanging out with colleagues in the hallway track of a smallish tech conference. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Oh hey, today’s the day for my 12 Days of Web entry, a short tidbit on pretty and balanced text wrapping! Thanks to @nprofile…7dpu for letting me be a part of this year’s calendar. https://12daysofweb.dev/2024/css-text-wrap/ npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer This is one of the most surreal Betteridge’s Law examples I’ve ever seen. It also missed being included in my Markov thread by thaaaaat much. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer If you’re writing #SVG and want to put a stroke or halo around your text that doesn’t overwrite the letters: npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer If you want to know how grumpy I’m getting in my old age: I saw a YouTube thumbnail with an egregious it’s-for-its error in an oversized handstroke font, so I told YouTube to never recommend anything from that channel to me again. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…pzw9 I would like to know more! npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…lfe5 I can’t think of a way to do it. I can see the utility, but CSS doesn’t have many visual selectors. ( I want to say not any, but there are a *lot* of selectors now and I may be forgetting something.) This might be a JS-required situation, looking for screen Y positions that equal the Y position of the first element in the list. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Just in case you were missing that end-of-the-millennium Beastie Boys sound, here’s a banger from a couple years back: “Punk Tactics” by Joey Valence & Brae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OklSZmIx9-o npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer 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. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I feel like I’m getting mixed messages here. #CSS #irony npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I’ve read a few articles about the Macy’s expenses ‘scandal’, and I still don’t have an explanation as to why an employee would do this. Annual bonus position, maybe? https://www.npr.org/2024/11/25/nx-s1-5205097/macys-employee-154-million-delivery-expenses npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer 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. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I’m entirely entertained by the fact that I’ve seen lots of social media posts and even a news headline or two about how Netflix failed at streaming the Tyson/Paul match last night, and not a word about who actually won. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…8rcj “ACKshually it’s EBEOPHILIA, only pedophiles would try to equate the two, guess you’re a pedo lib lol pwned” npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @nprofile…sw4g Every Nick Drake album npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer I’d say I’m looking forward to seeing how the Trumpinistas who are convinced The Deep State is riddled with pedophiles plan to square the Gaetz circle, but I’m really not. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Whoever suggested these people to Trump is just straight-up trolling, only with the US government instead of some random subreddit. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Trump names North Dakota governor Kristi Noem as head of Homeland Security; Noem vows to “keep America as safe as I would a family pet”. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @npub1asq…pd3l 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. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Aight, @npub1swy…snpj tossed out a prompt and I feel like playing along on this one even though I’ll be limited. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @npub14my…3wjf “Keeping up with the boneses”, we call it. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer For those of you thinking “twelve HUNDRED WHAAAAT the HELL”, Halloween is a Really Big Deal on our street. Like, there have been local news stories about it. Partly it’s location, but I think mostly it’s that lots and lots of people go all out decorating for Halloween and that draws families. To illustrate: this was the main part of our yard display this year. This would be considered an understated effort by the street’s standards. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Another Halloween night behind us. We had about the usual number of kids (last year it was ~1,200) and went through all 10 gallons of our “special” hot cider for the grown-ups in about 90 minutes. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Billionaire Peter Thiel once wrote that “capitalist democracy” is an “oxymoron”, and as the years go by and my experience of the world continues to grow, I find myself in agreement with him. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer “Scientists have concluded that widespread physical distancing and masking practiced during the early days of COVID-19 appear to have pushed B/Yamagata into oblivion. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @npub1d64…h42w one of us npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Horse’s tails and mackerel scales. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer So… O’Reilly sent me email today hyping up how my books (really, just the one, I assume) is going to be AI-translated into Spanish and German, with other languages to follow. This was probably inevitable, but I still have concerns. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @npub1xxt…f2tp What a Renfield. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @npub1swy…snpj I think they sell these at Costco now. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @npub1eys…6x02 And there’s no way it survives for long outdoors: nature abhors a vacuum. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @npub15tu…f3fg The Free Market Fairy has spoken. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @npub17cs…xjws Can you throw `hanging-punctuation` in there while you’re at it? npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer Second-wave attack targeting Hezbollah, this time detonating walkie-talkies. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-explosives-hezbollahs-taiwan-made-pagers-say-sources-2024-09-18/ npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer @npub1qmc…v6gx Feels like the gap between those two should be wider, some days. npub1dgewglf93wmf9u26ppwmmjmqa5uphv5jrtmtfkc3q7n754z3p8xqyayw0u Eric A. Meyer What the *fuck*. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-when-pagers-exploded-sources-witnesses-2024-09-17/
