Eric A. Meyer·Jan 1, 2020CWRU2KBefore I tell you this story of January 1st, 2000, I need to back things up a few months into mid-1999. I was working at Case Western…
Eric A. Meyer·Mar 18, 2019Legend of the Stalwart Mouse: Return of the MX518I’ve relied on a mouse for about a decade and a half. I don’t mean “relied on a mouse” in the generic sense, but rather in the sense that…A response icon1A response icon1
Eric A. Meyer·Aug 7, 2018Securing Web Sites Made Them Less AccessibleIn the middle of last month (July 2018), I found myself staring at a projector screen, waiting once again to see if Wikipedia would load…A response icon2A response icon2
Eric A. Meyer·Jul 19, 2018The China AnniversaryIt was twenty years ago today, under the wide-spreading boughs of a tree in the front yard of a house on Long Island, that Kat and I…A response icon1A response icon1
Eric A. Meyer·Jun 28, 2018What is the CSS ‘ch’ Unit?I keep seeing authors and speakers refer to the ch unit as meaning “character width”. This leads to claims that you can “make your content…A response icon3A response icon3
Eric A. Meyer·Jun 7, 2018DecimatedIn another timeline, an early alarm woke Kat and me this morning so we could sneak into Rebecca’s room with her siblings and wish her a…
Eric A. Meyer·Feb 15, 2018“CSS Pocket Reference, 5th Edition” to ProductionJust over an hour before I started writing this post, I handed off CSS Pocket Reference, 5th Edition to the Production department at…
Eric A. Meyer·Jan 25, 2018My Contribution to “Modern Loss”My wife Kat and I tell ourselves we’d love another child for who they are, not for who they replace. We even believe it. But we can’t be…
Eric A. Meyer·Dec 3, 2017Book Review: “Create with Code: Build Your Own Website”A thing people ask me with some regularity is, “What’s a good book for someone who wants to get started in web design?” I’m here to review…
Eric A. Meyer·Nov 27, 2017Generating Wireframe Boxes with CSS and HTML5I was recently noodling around with some new layout ideas for An Event Apart’s speaker pages (e.g., Chris Coyier’s or Jen Simmons’) and…
