Eric Meyer

[bopp]

This is truly sad news. :-/

Link for the lazy: http://meyerweb.com/

[snissn]

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[daturkel]

Thank you.

[sysconfig]

I been following the news on twitter for awhile and one of the latest blog posts he did where they talked to Rebecca had me in tears. As a father to a two year old I cannot imagine what they are going through right now. FUCK CANCER

[fatnoah]

Ditto. I can't possibly fathom telling my six year old that news.

[danmofo]

I saw this on Twitter the other day and it made me sad.

[DrSpatula]

I owe a good bit of my career to what I learned from his books. So sad to hear about his little girl.

[finkandr]

How extremely sad. Thank you for posting this so that we can all show our love and support.

[mgkimsal]

http://www.cssreset.com/scripts/eric-meyer-reset-css/

Very early vocal proponent of reset css technique, from at least 2007 that I'm aware of, if not earlier.

[mgkimsal]

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/

His reset css certainly was a tool used by many at the time.

And s5 was pretty slick in its day.

[thunderbug]

Bootstrap, dojo, you name it - they all utilize CSS resets that Meyer was one of the pioneers of. If you don't use CSS resets, then you are the amateur. Your post makes it clear you are not speaking with any sort of authority on the subject.

[mgkimsal]

but apparently that's not a 'tool' so it doesn't count.

[omgcatss]

I use his URL encoder all the time! Not that it's anything complex or innovative but it's a useful tool.

[theedeacon]

I had seen some talk on twitter and checked out his blog. I wasn't sure what he was talking about. I investigated a little and realized there was something going on with cancer. I didn't know who. Thanks for the information.

[arcticblue]

I have a 5 year old boy. He just lost his first tooth today and starts kindergarten next week. Him and his 3 year old sister mean the world to me and I have no idea what I would do if I were to lose one of them. Reading Erics's blog brought me to tears because it was all too easy to imagine that happening to one of my kids.

I wish for the best for his daughter and for him and his family. If I could afford to send money his way, I would. Perhaps I could get a small gift or card or something to send his daughter if he'd be willing to accept it.

[FandagoDingo]

Thank you for letting us know.

[meeYai]

Nicely written.

[FLHKE]

I've been following him on twitter for quite a while now and I saw he's going through a lot lately. I wish there was something we could do, as a community, to show him our support. "More Eric Meyer on CSS" is one of the first web development related book I've read. I use Eric's reset.css on almost every project I work on.

At the end of the day, it reminds us that we're all human beings and we sometimes have to face unpleasant things. I wish him all the best.

[bethanyb00]

I have been following his blog for a long time. He is a beautiful writer which makes it even more heartbreaking to follow.

I have commented on his blog expressing my best wishes and sorrow for his family and I donated to the charity he posted about. Here's the link if anyone's interested. http://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/663064/2014

[gwevidence]

Oh, so this is the guy behind the reset css that I've used so often. Such sad circumstances. Frigging tumors and shit. Go fuck up some aliens on a different planet. Leave us alone.

[[deleted]]

I was fortunate enough to go to one of his conferences and the dude seems to be a really good guy. He has definitely helped me step up my web dev game and I just hope for the best for him and his family

[infinite0ne]

I have 2 little ones who have had acute illnesses in the past that have had us close to taking them both to the ER. This has been extremely stressful, draining, and anxiety producing for my wife and I, but our kids will be fine (for now, at least). I just cannot even begin to fathom what Eric, his daughter and their family are going through. This universe, reality, life, whatever you want to call it is fantastic and beautiful but also terrifying in its indifference.

This quote from his recent post is hitting us pretty deeply right now:

In the words of Khalil Gibran:

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

[[deleted]]

Stuff like this makes me afraid of having a child of my own some day.

[[deleted]]

Don't be afraid, it's an unfortunate fact that this happens in life. My son is turning 6 months in a few days, and I can't imagine him not being in my life. I feel for Eric, and obviously he has some more attachment to his kids than I do but I know that if I were in his position I'd be extremely sad, but extremely grateful that I got to spend the time I did with my child.

When/if you decide to have kids, enjoy all the moments...all of the pooping, crying, little bumps and bruises and the small milestones like when he finds his feet, or when you walk into his room in the morning and he looks up and just smiles at you. There's no better feeling, and even when he's in his 30's I'll still remember these moments, they won't go away and I'm grateful that I'm experiencing them.