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Eric Meyer
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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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Eric Meyer @meyerweb.com · Jan 22
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.
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Today at #TPAC, a talk asked the audience: whenever human DX (developer experience) and agentic DX conflict, how should the solution be weighted? This was my answer, basically word for word:

“You weight the solution 100% in favor of humans, every time, no exceptions.”

Said it with my whole chest.
October 28, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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sarasoueidan.com
I just added links to @adactio.com 's and @meyerweb.com 's Interop 2027 rankings in my post.

Jeremy's: adactio.com/journal/22805
Eric's: meyerweb.com/eric/thought...

#CSS #HTML
October 27, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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webengineshackfest.org
📅 Save the date! The Web Engines Hackfest 2027 will take place in A Coruña from Monday 7th to Wednesday 9th of June. webengineshackfest.org
2027 Web Engines Hackfest
Web Platform community event for people working on the different engines (Chromium/Blink/V8, Safari/WebKit/JSC, Firefox/Gecko/SpiderMonkey, Servo, Ladybird), on the testing side (WPT, Test262), on spe...
webengineshackfest.org
October 28, 2026 at 4:49 PM
meyerweb.com
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!
October 26, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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⌨️ 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/
My Interop 2027 Rankings
In which I explore why I ranked what I did for Interop 2027.
meyerweb.com
October 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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igalia.com
🎙️ 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...
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October 14, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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webdevs.firefox.com
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
Interop Feature Ranking
Rank the web platform features you care most about
interop-rank.fxdx.dev
October 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
meyerweb.com
In memory and honor of Margaret Hamilton (1936–2026), American hero. https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
The “Hamilton” musical banner ad, except instead of Lin Manuel-Miranda’s silhouette for the top of the star, it’s a silhouette of Margaret Hamilton with the stack Apollo guidance software printouts.
October 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
meyerweb.com
My left hand was out of place when I started typing a URL and that’s how I discovered 'grrps://' should be a thing.
September 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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veneman.dev
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?
September 23, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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veneman.dev
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...
veneman.dev Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · Sep 23
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?
September 24, 2026 at 7:49 PM
meyerweb.com
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.
September 24, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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neorsd.org
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.
September 23, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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igalia.com
🎙️ 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
September 23, 2026 at 2:25 PM
meyerweb.com
I made this floating-scrollbar #CSS demo as the result of a discussion we had in today’s Front-End Study Hall: https://codepen.io/editor/meyerweb/pen/01a0b0bd-0100-750d-8c24-745f6318896d
September 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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igalia.com
🎙️ 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
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September 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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igalia.com
🎙️ 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...
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September 8, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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bkardell.com
5 minutes to explain why the web needs our proposal to enhance spell checking on the web...

youtu.be/TfFIC4Ookxo?...
Enhanced Spell Checking on the Web
YouTube video by Igalia
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August 18, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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igalia.com
🎙️ 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-...
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August 14, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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igalia.com
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...
Igalia + Bocoup
August 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
This is banana republic stuff - we all know that, right?
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Aug 3
FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche.

The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
August 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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molly.wiki
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.
John Oliver speaking on Last Week Tonight, gesturing to an overlay of my web of the Trump family’s crypto businesses. The subtitles say “keeping track of them have wound up making diagrams like this”.
July 27, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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igalia.com
🎙️ 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...
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July 23, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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neorsd.org
happy 230th birthday Cleveland, your sewers don't look a day over 153.
July 22, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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igalia.com
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/...
Reducing layer overhead in LBSE
Conditional layer creation in the layer based SVG engine
blogs.igalia.com
July 22, 2026 at 1:04 PM