Design for Real Life is now available, for free, in its entirety, at dfrlbook.com. And is also for sale!
Design for Real Life’s rights have been returned to Sara and me, and we’ve cut the price by about half (or more in some regions).
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/07/22/design-for-real-life-news/
I woke up this morning about an hour ahead of my alarm, the sky already light, birds calling.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/06/07/a-decade-later-a-decade-lost/
I am pleased to inform you that I’m back on my generative art BS again.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/01/02/once-upon-a-browser/
That was the year that was… and it had three big turning points.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/12/31/2023-in-brief-review/
A few days ago was the 30th anniversary of the first time I wrote an HTML document.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/12/06/three-decades-of-html/
The Web is a little bit darker today, a fair bit poorer.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/09/06/memories-of-molly/
Last week, I designed a logo for the podcast I do at Igalia.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/08/22/igalia-chats-logo/
A year or so ago, I set about listening through my entire music library alphabetically by song title.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/04/10/from-abcs-to-9999999/
I ran OpenAI’s Whisper on my laptop to transcribe some videos, and it did an astonishingly good job.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/03/23/peerless-whisper/
One of the more interesting design challenges of “The Effects of Nuclear Weapons” was the fact that it has footnotes.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/09/12/nuclear-footnotes/
In which a colleague and I took the complete text of a 1977 book and recreated it online as faithfully and accessibly as we could.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/08/09/recreating-the-effects-of-nuclear-weapons-for-the-web/
She would have become a teenager this morning, but she didn’t.
After my post the other day, I found myself reflecting on just how far CSS itself has come in the last 25 years.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/06/02/ancestors-and-descendants/
It was the morning of Tuesday, May 7th, 1996 and I was sitting in the Ambroisie conference room of the CNIT in Paris, France having my mind repeatedly blown.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/05/25/25-years-of-css/