Notices by Eric A. Meyer (meyerweb@mastodon.social)

Can’t be too careful, I guess #wordpress

@nixCraft “Frank quit. Bought a goat farm, moved to Ukiah. Left you this note. He was too broken up to talk about it. Said he knew you'd understand.”

“Every man has a dream to chase. Frank's was that goat farm. Sure, Captain, I understand.”

OpenAI stealing Scarlett’s voice for their new product after being told “no” is so perfectly on-brand, it’s almost painful. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

BRING BACK THE 3D PAGE INSPECTOR YOU COWARDS

I know I have very little ground on which to comment on the beauty of a typeface, but this variable font is *SO GOOD* and I really wish I’d found it before “CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition” published a month back, because it would have been **perfect** for the examples in the Fonts chapter.

Try out all the features and variability of Elstob at https://psb1558.github.io/Elstob-font/, which also links to a Github repository where you can get it.

This is full of truth about tech conferences. It lays out why the US independent conference scene has collapsed, and the headwinds anyone thinking of moving into that space will face. I haven’t really said (and may never say) much about the end of AEA, but this is a damned good stand-in. https://remotesynthesis.com/blog/developer-conferences/

Q: How many web devs does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: None, they insist everything has to be in Dark Mode.

I’d been hearing about the coal-mine protests in Germany, but this photo by Sean Gallup is the first that gave me a real sense of the titanic size of the thing and what’s being protested. Just… unreal.