Eric Meyer

Most-linked posts?

1. “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful
   56 people · 61 mentions · first linked 2008-06-16
2. “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful
   48 people · 55 mentions · first linked 2017-11-01
3. Rebeccapurple (2014)
   10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2017-06-12
4. Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible
   9 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2018-08-07
5. CSS Tools: Reset CSS
   9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2011-01-26
6. Meyerweb CSS Reset
   9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2019-02-18
7. Blinded by the Light DOM
   6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-11-02
8. URL Decoder/Encoder
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-01
9. Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-08-22
10. Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-12-24

What Hacker News says?

1. mathgorges · 2025-06-09

   (2002) https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

   Comment linking /eric/comment/chech.html

   on “Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube”
2. ZeWaka · 2025-02-14

   Submitted A decade later, a decade lost (2024) as a story · 548 points

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3. pizza · 2015-05-21

   'Considered Harmful Essays' Considered Harmful : http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

   Comment linking /eric/comment/chech.html

   on “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”
4. OuterVale · 2025-08-07

   Submitted Infinite Pixels as a story · 250 points

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5. czhu12 · 2024-11-17Recommends

   Having never had children myself, his writing moved me in a way that I struggle to comprehend. I spent my 2 hour commute reading through all of his writing on his time, and subsequent grief of his daughter, starting here: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/06/18/welcome-2/ I found this piece particularly moving, and brought me to tears: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/10/so-many-nevers...

   Comment linking /eric/thoughts/2014/06/10/so-many-nevers/

   on “CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`”
6. EamonnMR · 2020-03-22

   Submitted Get Static as a story · 238 points

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7. aryonoco · 2024-11-17

   I would say he hasn't, considering a few months ago he wrote "A Decade Later, A Decade Lost" https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/06/07/a-decade-later... And I can't blame him. They say no parent should see their child die, and that's certainly true; but especially no parent should see their 6 year old child die of brain cancer. Humans are not built to withstand that.

   Comment linking /eric/thoughts/2024/06/07/a-decade-later-a-decade-lost/

   on “CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`”
8. 88e282102ae2e5b · 2015-06-19

   Submitted “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful as a story · 233 points

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9. empathy_m · 2024-11-17Recommends

   Eric Meyer's posts about his daughter's illness, and the family's lifelong process of grieving afterward, are heartbreaking. It's arresting, gripping writing. It's wonderful and awful. Hug your loved ones tight. https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/rebecca...

   Comment linking /eric/thoughts/category/personal/rebecca/

   on “CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`”
10. jlbruno · 2011-10-05

    Submitted Searching for Mark Pilgrim as a story · 228 points

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11. leeoniya · 2019-09-20

    nice. i've used this simple one in the past: https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/#FFFF00:0000FF:1...

    Comment linking /eric/tools/color-blend/

    on “ColorBox by Lyft Design”
12. adrian_mrd · 2021-06-02

    Submitted 25 Years of CSS as a story · 189 points

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13. felineflock · 2025-08-13Recommends

    You might like this one: https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

    Comment linking /eric/comment/chech.html

    on “Claude Code is all you need”
14. chx · 2014-06-08

    Submitted In memory of Rebecca Alison Meyer as a story · 141 points

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15. Stratoscope · 2018-11-29Recommends

    And this classic by Scott Meyers of Effective C++ fame: "Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

    Comment linking /eric/comment/chech.html

    on “Go 2, here we come”
16. todsacerdoti · 2022-03-14

    Submitted When or If as a story · 131 points

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17. tyleo · 2024-11-24

    An interesting tradeoff here is that this is less CPU processing but more content to download. The effect is achieved by imposing a blurred image on top of a non-blurred one. Here is the blurred image used in that demo: https://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/glassy-ripp... In many cases this can be the right tradeoff to make. There is also a beauty to its simplicity.

    Comment linking /eric/css/edge/complexspiral/glassy-ripple.jpg

    on “Frosted glass from games to the web”
18. danh · 2011-01-03

    Submitted Eric Meyer's Reset Revisited as a story · 118 points

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19. nedt · 2024-11-24

    Over 20 years ago Eric Meyer had a glass background done with CSS1 with a bit more texture but way less code https://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/glassy.html If for nothing else those old things on css/edge could at least be used as inspiration.

    Comment linking /eric/css/edge/complexspiral/glassy.html

    on “Frosted glass from games to the web”
20. bkardell · 2025-08-22

    Submitted Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT as a story · 103 points

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21. bawolff · 2024-11-24

    Kind of interesting how we've come full circle. One of the original css demos (for css 1) was for a frosted glass effect https://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/glassy.html

    Comment linking /eric/css/edge/complexspiral/glassy.html

    on “Frosted glass from games to the web”
22. davezatch · 2018-08-07

    Submitted Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible as a story · 88 points

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23. semi-extrinsic · 2017-06-12

    There's one colour standing out, where the hex doesn't match the word: Rebeccapurple (#663399) was named in memory of Eric Meyer's daughter. https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/

    Comment linking /eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/

    on “#c0ffee is the color”
24. surprisetalk · 2023-12-24

    Submitted Pixelating Live with SVG as a story · 74 points

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25. slow_typist · 2025-10-07Recommends

    Eric Meyer, the CSS guru of all times I wouldn’t have made any sense of the CSS box model without him back in 2002. https://meyerweb.com/eric/books/

    Comment linking /eric/books/

    on “The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)”
26. robin_reala · 2024-11-27

    Submitted IE7 and IE7 (2005) as a story · 57 points

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27. bix6 · 2025-10-07

    https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ Cash money

    Comment linking /eric/tools/css/reset/

    on “The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)”
28. roosgit · 2025-08-21

    Submitted To Infinity but Not Beyond as a story · 45 points

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29. lelandfe · 2022-11-21

    https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/ Time to resurface the most human side to CSS. She's in this color picker, too.

    Comment linking /eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/

    on “Show HN: A color picker for named web colors”
30. duck · 2011-01-26

    Submitted Reset v2.0 as a story · 44 points

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