Matthew Eernisse

Literal rock star developer. JavaScript, music, Japanese, and serial commas. 日本語でもOKです。

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

This has been a gripe of mine for years about Apple design. Actual, real usability sacrificed in the name of looking "clean."

[balázs @BcZsalba]

@usgraphics Not sure what happened but before like a year ago I never had to think about scrollbars on the web. Since then every website I work on has had to have scrollbar colors & gutters set to not look horrendous. The whole auto hidden scrollbar thing is nasty to design around.

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

@VictoriqueM @IroncladDev JSON is literally JavaScript.

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

@spikebrehm @aarondfrancis I prefer the one that starts with `while`. I like to, you know, make sure beforehand.

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

@ashleymayer Also RIP OSCON and SXSW.

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

I am one of like five people who will notice she didn't play the up-the-toms fill, but she's delivering the goods. They sound great. :)

[Brian Hiatt @hiattb]

Rush miraculously come back to life, opening their tour with “Xanadu”

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

Not that big a deal. Email has been mostly spam for the majority of the life of the Internet, and we adapted.

https://t.co/Z1oIFW6VzB

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

100%. I don't need a humongous phablet. I don't spend all day staring at it.

[htmx.org / CEO of Bad Flags (same thing) @htmx_org]

this was the correct phone size, btw

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

@Angry_Staffer Yeah, crazy they'd hire someone who said they regretted it.

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

@JasnTru Having your tonsils out in the local University Hospital. :D

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

@calcsam @pk_iv I love how half the time Claude is convinced he has no browser tool of his own to use. "You are right to call me out on that," etc.

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

Principle of Least Surprise, or Principle of Most Disappointment?

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

the four horsemen of the apocalypse

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

Best movie in the entire world to watch super baked.

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

@donpark Plus religious-connected. "Holiday" is literally from "holy day."

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

"Fewer." Fewer holidays.

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

@drewdil "Shape," "surface," "load-bearing," "belt-and-suspenders," "honest."

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

I guess they've never seen the 80s "Dune" movie.

[David Hering @hering_david]

Why does Sting look like the head of a planetary council in a science fiction film

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

Had such a crush on her as a kid.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Caroline Munro on how lucky she was to be cast in "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" (1973):

"I had been signed by Hammer, for one year, for a contract, out of which I did two films; one being 'Dracula A.D.' (1972), and the second one being 'Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter' (1974), which kind of would come full circle to Sinbad.

[Captain Kronos] was written and directed by Brian Clemens, who wrote the screenplay for 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad' (1973), so I was lucky enough to have been chosen for 'Captain Kronos', and they were searching for some body to do Sinbad, and they wanted a big name, somebody American or well-known, but Brian said “No.”

He kept lobbying Charles Schneer & Ray Harryhausen, saying, “I think you should come and look at the rushes and see what you think, because I think she’s right.” So they said “No,” but eventually Brian persuaded them to do that, and they saw the rushes, and that was how I got the part. So it was lovely, like work-out-of-work. I was very lucky to have done that.”

("Caroline Munro, First Lady of Fantasy", Robert Michael 'Bobb' Cotter, 2012)

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

Not X, but Y.

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Matthew Eernisse @mde]

https://t.co/Z3FbvJyagE

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

NASA just officially unveiled their master plan for a permanent Moon Base at the lunar South Pole

This is not just about flags and footprints. NASA is moving to establish an enduring, sustained human presence, and they are heavily relying on commercial innovators to build it

The roadmap is highly aggressive:
• Phase 1: Heavy robotic missions and commercial payload deliveries
• Phase 2: Semi-permanent infrastructure, including fission surface power and lunar drones
• Phase 3: A sustained, permanent human outpost

The most important takeaway is NASA explicitly stated this base is the ultimate proving ground to prepare humanity for missions to Mars

While legacy aerospace companies are still struggling to reliably get a small capsule to the ISS, NASA is setting the stage for massive lunar infrastructure....which is exactly the kind of heavy-lift planetary deployment SpaceX’s Starship was designed for

The multi-planetary economy is officially kicking off

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Badger Badger Badger, also known as “The Badger Song,” is a viral internet meme and classic Flash animation from 2003 by Jonti Picking.

The looping animation featured dancing badgers, mushrooms, and a snake, paired with a catchy repetitive song that became one of the most iconic viral videos of the early internet era.

#InternetHistory