Some small scripts and aliases to make firing up the localhost servers for MDN and WPT a little easier. | Continue reading
Today marks one month at Igalia. It’s been a lot, and there’s more to come, but it’s been a really great experience. | Continue reading
The first week on the job at Igalia was… it was good, y’all. | Continue reading
For my 2020 holiday break, I decided to get more serious about supporting the use of alternative text on Twitter. | Continue reading
Making my bash environment a little more polite. | Continue reading
I’ve added a couple of links to the bottom of RSS items here on meyerweb: a link to the commenting form, and a mailto: link to send me an email reply. | Continue reading
Another aspect of the meyerweb redesign I’d like to explore is the way I’m using CSS Grid rows to give myself more layout flexibility. | Continue reading
Sometimes, what is still is the most transient of all. | Continue reading
Let’s talk about image optimization. | Continue reading
On using structural CSS selectors to create the appearance of randomness while remaining usefully predictable. | Continue reading
If you are in charge of a web site that provides even slightly important information, or important services, it’s time to get static. | Continue reading
For the holiday break this year, I decided to finally tackle creating an indoor work space. I’d had my eye on a corner of our basement storage room for a while, and sketched out various rough plans on graph paper over the past couple of years. But this time? This time, I was d … | Continue reading
I’m posting this on the last day of 2019. As I write it, the second post I ever made on meyerweb says that it was published “20 years, 6 days ago”. It was published on the second-to-last day of 1999, which was 20 years and one day ago. | Continue reading
On December 6th, 1999, I published the first blog post on meyerweb.com. | Continue reading
There’s a long history in computer programming of using hexadecimal strings that look like English words to flag errors. Come see how I turned a bunch of them into colors. | Continue reading
If you get reports that a font isn’t doing the variable thing you styled, but it’s working fine for you, keep “check their operating system version” on your list of diagnostic tests. | Continue reading
An update on the :screenshot (formerly screenshot) command in Firefox, which I first wrote about in 2015. | Continue reading