Fearing The Cure
I’m afraid there will be a cure for cancer. Except no, that’s not really it. In truth, I’m afraid of what a cure for cancer will do to me, and to Kat. After my mom died of breast cancer in 2003, I...
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Pokéstop and Think
As I write this, Pokémon Go is still huge. One of the latest moments was the stampede that occurred when a rare Pokémon spawned in Central Park. And one of the stories that’s fascinated me the most...
View ArticleResults of the GIF Survey
The GIF Survey is complete. In just under a week, 1,457 people gave their answers on how they pronounce the acronym, and their perceptions of the rightness of that pronunciation. I thought that,...
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Help Insurance
This is my daughter Rebecca in 2013. She was 5¼ years old when I took this picture. Less than three days later, she almost died on an ER bed. She’d been completely fine when we set out for vacation...
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Declining Complexity in CSS
At the end of last week, I posted this picture to Twitter and Facebook, and on Twitter it kind of took off. On the left: the 2nd and 3rd editions of “CSS: The Definitive Guide”. On the right, a single...
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Book Review: “Create with Code: Build Your Own Website”
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View ArticleThe Newwwyear Design
Well, here it is—the first new design for meyerweb since February 2005 (yes, almost 13 years). It isn’t 100% complete, since I still want to tweak the navigation and pieces of the footer, but it’s...
View ArticleIncreasing Accessibility
Thanks to the fantastic comments on my previous post, I’ve made some accessibility improvements. Chief among them: adding WAI-ARIA role values to various parts of the structure. These include:...
View ArticleSecuring Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible
In the middle of last month (July 2018), I found myself staring at a projector screen, waiting once again to see if Wikipedia would load. If I was lucky, the page started rendering 15-20 seconds after...
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The Broken Physics of “The Umbrella Academy” Finale
Not long ago, Kat and I got around to watching The Umbrella Academy’s first season on Netflix. I thought it was pretty good! It was a decent mix of good decisions and bad decisions by people in the...
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Running Code Over Time
I’m posting this on the last day of 2019. As I write it, the second post I ever made on meyerweb says it was published “20 years, 6 days ago”. It was published on the second-to-last day of 1999,...
View ArticleTrying to Work From Home
I’ve been working from home for (checks watch) almost 19 years now, and I’d love to share some tips with you all on how to make it work for you. Except I can’t, because this has been incredibly...
View ArticleGet Static
If you are in charge of a web site that provides even slightly important information, or important services, it’s time to get static. I’m thinking here of sites for places like health departments (and...
View ArticleNo, Apple Did Not Crowdfund :focus-visible in Safari
It’s not every week the release notes for a preview build of a web browser ignite Yet Another Twitter Teacup Storm (YATTS™), but that’s what happened when Safari Technology Preview 138 dropped late...
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Ventura Vexations
I’ve been a bit over a month now on my new 14” MacBook Pro, and I have complaints. Not about the hardware, which is solid yet lightweight, super-quiet yet incredibly fast and powerful, long-lived on...
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