Eric A. Meyer

Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Old enough for it to hurt when I stand up, not old enough to have stopped noticing. Agnostic in principle, atheist in practice, #CSS guy, mzungu. I’m only here for the food.

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2025-12-24 17:12:14 UTC

As of today, the North American release of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was closer to the end of World War II than to the present. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System

2025-06-09 18:02:35 UTC

I really appreciate the contrast of them claiming Spotlight is becoming the fastest way to access macOS content when mine is getting so slow (on an M2 Max MBP), I type the beginning of an app name (say, “1pa”) and then wait 5–10 seconds for it to realize I mean and autofill “1Password.app”. #wwdc

2025-04-15 01:44:50 UTC

“If you don’t see all of this as one of the darkest days in American history, in which the President is openly embracing disappearing people without due process in the name of “liberty,” you are a part of the problem. Fascism has risen in America, and it is being aided by a foreign dictator whom Trump admires.”
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/trump-bukele-plot-us-citizen-detention-in-salvadoran-torture-camps-while-defying-supreme-court-via-gibberish-responses-to-reporters/

2024-06-01 22:33:29 UTC

There was way less marijuana smoke at Cleveland Pride than I was expecting.

2024-05-07 02:27:55 UTC

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And no, I haven’t written an AI excluder into my `robots.txt` because I decided that would merely reward the AI firms who lack the ethics to honor it.
(What percentage of AI firms that would be, I leave as an exercise for the reader. You are neither required to show your work nor share your conclusions.)