Eric Meyer

@meyerweb

Web standards, HTML/CSS, microformats, writing, and speaking guy. Husband, father, agnostic in principle, atheist in practice. Mzungu.

Cleveland Heights, OH
Joined January 2007

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    27 Jan 2017

    Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn history are doomed to watch it repeated by those who didn’t.

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    “If you’re using blur, remember to fade it out before it gets gross”

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  3. Retweeted
    3 hours ago

    This is how you show respect to people in your industry. is adding to ’s ongoing design system conversation with the amazing and , not mansplaining or overriding or dismissing. (Really digging this conference.)

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    3 hours ago

    Loving the "air time" that accessibility gets from other speakers that aren't specialists or 100% dedicated to accessibility in their work. Accessibility should be part of everything, AND get its own dedicated airtime.

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    4 hours ago

    Friends! Will you be joining me at San Francisco this December? I'll be speaking about one of my very favorite topics: "The Neglected Art of Visual Hierarchy."

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  6. 5 hours ago

    OHIO FOLLOWERS: please check your voter registration status here: Not registered? TODAY is the deadline! Do it online here:

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    Oct 6

    Are you deaf or disabled? Do you want to become a journalist? Apply now for the chance to receive high-quality training and to work on an exciting range of stories! The deadline is on Thursday! BSL version:

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    6 hours ago

    “Experience at scale does change culture. Experience at scale IS culture.” “Don’t give absurdity a chance to scale.” makes some really great points about how technology choices can change culture more than we might initially realize at

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    6 hours ago

    "Experience at scale doesn't just change culture, experience at scale IS culture."

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  10. 6 hours ago

    Update: the font in question is Euclid Flex, using Stylistic Sets 4 and 7 (possibly others).

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    22 hours ago

    Why would we let 13-year-olds vote when we won't even let them date the politicians you endorse

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  12. 22 hours ago

    I really dig the font uses in this talk.

    A screenshot of some text showing unique type treatments like replacing the middle horizontal bar of uppercase “E” or “F” with a small circle, the leftmost ascender of the uppercase “R” missing, and a large dot inside an uppercase “O”.
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  13. Retweeted
    23 hours ago

    "The whole history of CSS feels like we're mostly just struggling with overflow problems." — at

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  14. Retweeted
    Oct 8

    Counting down the minutes to our Rock Block with , & .

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  15. Retweeted
    Oct 8

    Accessibility is a foundational principle of the web. To try to ignore it or overcome it is a lot like trying to paddle upstream. - , from his interview on the podcast

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    What I love about . From the very first second, you know you are among your peers, and you are going to learn A LOT. talking about 'Beyond Engagement' and the .

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    Oct 8

    "The world that can be perceived through the senses exudes an aura that I believe cannot be digitized. We have to be careful now, that we rule over the digital world, and are not ruled by it."

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    Oct 7

    I'm doing a talk tomorrow to teach the cloud to 400 new hires. I'm thinking of starting with "DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY SERVERS INVOLVED JUST SO YOU CAN SAY SOMETHING IS SERVERLESS?!?"

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  19. Oct 7

    A stark example of the power words have to shape our thoughts and instincts.

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  20. Retweeted
    Oct 6

    'We all look at Kavanaugh and we see some similarities to things that happened in our lives.' — This man perfectly described what it means to live in a rape culture

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