Eric Meyer

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.

First day of #TPAC is as overwhelming as expected. (This is my second go at this particular rodeo.) Web testing discussions, CSS/ARIA debates, on to Web DX and then the evening hackathon. And tomorrow night, after another full day, Brian and I will be doing a live @igalia Chats!

⌨️ The Interop 2027 process is moving along, and now is the time for ranking proposals! And blogging about it! https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2026/10/14/my-interop-2027-rankings/

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats Interop 2027: The polls are open! @meyerweb.com and @bkardell.com talk about Interop 2027 - what's been submitted, people's thoughts so far, how to participate, and the difficulty of deciding. www.igalia.com/chats/intero...

What do you want us to work on in 2027? Here's a web app where you can rank the Interop proposals you care about, giving us data we can use to prioritise feature development. interop-rank.fxdx.dev

In memory and honor of Margaret Hamilton (1936–2026), American hero. https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

My left hand was out of place when I started typing a URL and that’s how I discovered 'grrps://' should be a thing.

End of the year is approaching. I should probably start planning the next CSS Selection and not yolo it like I did this year. Does anyone have requests for what we should analyze?

Going over some ideas that @meyerweb.com and @bkardell.com had in the Igalia Chats episode. Brain is humming with ideas. The vibe was so good, I'm even just smiling when reading back the transcript. www.igalia.com/chats/projec...

I may not be at Inbox Zero, but I just managed Matrix Zero and honestly I think that’s a much steeper hill to climb.

Taylor Swift dropping her new song “Cleveland!” on Friday, but still no word on when she plans to release our other 62 service-area cities’ title tracks.

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats Global Privacy Control: You gotta fight for your right... to opt out. @bkardell.com & @meyerweb.com chat w/Nick Doty from the Center for Democracy and Technology, & Justin Brookman from Consumer Reports about the W3C's Global Privacy Control www.igalia.com/chats/gpc

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats: Webhooks @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with @progrium.bsky.social about the history of, naming and thoughts behind the evangelism of Webhooks www.igalia.com/chats/webhooks

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats Join the party and navigate the Origin Trial Google's Johnny Stenback and @rbyers.net join @meyerweb.com and @bkardell.com to chat about Origin Trials www.igalia.com/chats/origin...

5 minutes to explain why the web needs our proposal to enhance spell checking on the web... youtu.be/TfFIC4Ookxo?...

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats State of CSS 2026: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com discuss the results of State of CSS 2026 www.igalia.com/chats/state-...

BIG NEWS: Bocoup is now Igalia! The two worker co-ops have agreed to join forces, with several members of Bocoup coming aboard at Igalia, along with the brand assets and web site. More details in our official announcement: www.igalia.com/2026/Joining...

This is banana republic stuff - we all know that, right?

My newest Citation Needed project made an appearance on @lastweektonight.com! It’s a work in progress, but you can see the new interactive version of my map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures at map.citationneeded.news.

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats Inaccessible Math: Threat Level Midnight @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with Microsoft's Clint Covington and Peter Wu about the many integrations of Math, the role MathML and some amazing statistics. www.igalia.com/chats/mathml...

happy 230th birthday Cleveland, your sewers don't look a day over 153.

Our colleague Nikolas Zimmermann has two interesting posts on the Layer-Based #SVG Engine (LBSE) he’s been writing. Worth your time if you’ve ever used SVG, or are interested in how browsers render things that aren’t HTML and CSS! blogs.igalia.com/nzimmermann/... blogs.igalia.com/nzimmermann/...

To stop my my new test iPhone polluting my office with its anti-Web Walled Garden vibes, I'm storing it in a special tin decorated with portraits of @zeldman.bsky.social and @meyerweb.com, containing garlic, a Ganesh, a chakra-cleansing crystal, a lucky badge and a Turkish talisman.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

“Hey, sorry I’m late; a White-Tailed doe and her playful young fawn were having breakfast in my backyard. They weren’t in any rush, so neither was I.”

🎙️ Igalia Chats: The Adventure of Servo DevTools @meyerweb.com and @ryzokuken.dev chat with colleagues and Servo team members @atbrakhi.bsky.social and Eri www.igalia.com/chats/servo-...

That's a wrap on the 2026 @webengineshackfest.org! 🎉 Three days in A Coruña: 150+ people working on browsers and web standards, 9 talks, and 20+ breakout sessions — from memory safety in WebKit to MathML Core. Recap, with direct links to every talk: www.igalia.com/2026/webengi...

also some of the awesome people i met at #cssday: Dylan Beattie (@dylanbeatt.ie) Kevin Powell (@kevinpowell.co) Eric Meyer (@meyerweb.com) Roma Komarov (@kizu.dev)

“Apotheosis” sounds to me like it means the exact opposite of what it actually means. I don’t even know why, it just does.

Inspired by @meyerweb.com's talk at @cssday.nl I played with offset-path before, but somehow missed that we can use it with border-box and padding-box, making this so incredibly easy. I need to fix up the code a bit as it's kinda messy, but you can see it here: codepen.io/editor/kevin...

I told ye all, When we first put this dangerous stone a-rolling, ’Twould fall upon ourselves.

Huge Servo milestone: thanks to a swift response to a bug I reported, the Servo browser (https://servo.org) can now play Deltarune Dot Com's 404 page correctly.

Today I learned that rich people have no idea how US health insurance and laws like EMTALA actually work. Okay, I didn’t learn that, I already knew. It’s just funny to me that he came right out and said so and doesn’t have the self-respect to delete it.

Far too many men will be unable to figure this logo out.

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Given the extent to which these jabronis and their cultists fetishize Imperial Rome, I’m surprised he didn’t order a switch to Trajan.

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

This is what I’m getting when trying to use Bluesky on desktop, so on the assumption that this will spread to the mobile client, it looks as if my time here will be coming to a close. Ah well. As Kermit the Frog once said, “Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it.”

For *vastly* different reasons, “The Piano” (the soundtrack to which I nevertheless adore) and “Beasts of the Southern Wild”.

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

“We should publicly hang people who are a harm to society”, said the techbro billionaire without even a hint of a shred of self-awareness.

*5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the bunny is racist