Eric A. Meyer

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:29:24 +0000

The thing that confuses me most about this [CENSORED] war is that it’s caused the US dollar to _strengthen_ against the Euro.

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:56:15 +0000

I think I finally got some slopspam comments on a meyerweb.com post from (checks again) twenty years and ten months ago. It’s possible they were human-generated, but the cheery tone is just a little too context-blind to believe it. Either way, giving me advice on RAM upgrades for my G4/500 Mac as if I were still using it seems like a red flag.

Anyway, they were held for administrator approval, which I will not be granting.

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:21:34 +0000

The above toot is brought to you by the afternoon I spent trying very hard to make our washing machine work again, followed by a look at the news.

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:21:33 +0000

Everything is breaking and nothing is repairable.

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:36:45 +0000

I’m not sure they’ve understood the concept.

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:18:11 +0000

Rejoice, for the Days of Light are upon us!

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:05:40 +0000

As of today, the Michael Jackson album “Thriller” was released closer to the start of World War II than to the present.

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:02:54 +0000

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

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:21:34 +0000

“How come you’re so dismissive of 10-day weather forecasts, Eric?”

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:45:43 +0000

Hey @grammargirl, thank you for including my familect in episode 1162! I was sort of hoping it would be part of episode 1161 because @glennf and I go back a ways, but this was a very close second best. Hoppaween!

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:17:10 +0000

Anyone here planning to watch the STFU this evening? I ask because I want to know which hashtags to mute.

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:11:31 +0000

For those of you interested in https://design.google’s articles but not in being forced to read them in dark mode, have a Stylus rule:
```
@-moz-document url-prefix("https://design.google/") {
html, picture, img, video, iframe, :fullscreen {
filter: invert(1);
}
}
```
This is for Firefox; on Chrome, just use the inner part, not the outer at-block, when adding site rules.

(Need Stylus? https://github.com/openstyles/stylus has links to browser addon stores. It’s free!)

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:27:00 +0000

Got my colonoscopy results.

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:08:32 +0000

Teen and I have decided that any resignation or forfeit in online chess matches should be recorded as “Kalt-f4”.

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:14:23 +0000

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*.

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:32:45 +0000

(If this doesn’t make any sense to you: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/11/the-anthropic-test-refusal-string-kill-a-claude-session-dead/)

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:29:26 +0000

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:25:46 +0000

As is my tradition, for this year’s Super Bowl I will be rooting for the football, which always scores the most. Go, football, go!

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:23:37 +0000

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

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:06:09 +0000

There’s a lot that’s gone wrong with the web, and a lot of damage still to be corrected, but I still absolutely adore that I can wonder to myself something like “I wonder how many Planck cubes there are in the observable universe?” and get the answer with just a few seconds of typing. https://googology.fandom.com/wiki/Number_of_Planck_volumes_in_the_observable_universe