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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
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Web developer, manager, author. HTML optimization (“Upgrade Your HTML”), web dev news (@frontenddogma.com), web dev terminology (@webglossary.info). More: https://mas.to/@j9t, https://meiert.com/.
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Now Available: “On Web Development II”!:

A comprehensive ebook marking another 10 years of meiert.com, featuring 180 curated articles on web development from 2015 to 2025.
Now Available: “On Web Development II”!
A comprehensive ebook marking another 10 years of meiert.com, featuring 180 curated articles on web development from 2015 to 2025.
meiert.com
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HTML—the Most Difficult Programming Language in the World:

Where we seem to stand after declaring that HTML is a programming language and finding that most HTML documents contain errors.
HTML—the Most Difficult Programming Language in the World
Where we seem to stand after declaring that HTML is a programming language and finding that most HTML documents contain errors.
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October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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A Minimal CSS Starter:

What would you include in a CSS starter, as a CSS minimalist? Not a reset—yet perhaps five and a half surgical tweaks.
A Minimal CSS Starter
What would you include in a CSS starter, as a CSS minimalist? Not a reset—yet perhaps five and a half surgical tweaks.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A Minimal CSS Starter:

What would you include in a CSS starter, as a CSS minimalist? Not a reset—yet perhaps five and a half surgical tweaks.
A Minimal CSS Starter
What would you include in a CSS starter, as a CSS minimalist? Not a reset—yet perhaps five and a half surgical tweaks.
meiert.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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An Overview of the 50 Highest-Ranking Web Design and Development Glossaries:

There are dozens if not hundreds of tech glossaries. However, there are differences in how comprehensive and therefore useful these glossaries are—and if they are being updated.
An Overview of the 50 Highest-Ranking Web Design and Development Glossaries · Jens Oliver Meiert
If you want to learn about or look up terms, there are dozens if not hundreds of tech glossaries. However, a search quickly shows differences in how comprehensive and therefore useful these glossaries...
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January 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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If you want to add randomness to your new tabs and your traffic, the New Tab Traffic Randomizer Chromium extension was significantly improved:

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/new-t...

#privacy #traffic #chromium #browserextensions
New Tab Traffic Randomizer - Chrome Web Store
Requests a random URL every time a new tab is opened, for extra <del>privacy</del> <ins>obscurity</ins>.
chromewebstore.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you want to add randomness to your new tabs and your traffic, the New Tab Traffic Randomizer Chromium extension was significantly improved:

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/new-t...

#privacy #traffic #chromium #browserextensions
New Tab Traffic Randomizer - Chrome Web Store
Requests a random URL every time a new tab is opened, for extra <del>privacy</del> <ins>obscurity</ins>.
chromewebstore.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The Magic of the Most Minimal HTML Possible (and Why We Don’t Make Use of It):

On challenging XHTML–HTML and regular redos, by looking at HTML–HTML, full separation of concerns, and iterations.
The Magic of the Most Minimal HTML Possible (and Why We Don’t Make Use of It)
On challenging XHTML–HTML and regular redos, by looking at HTML–HTML, full separation of concerns, and iterations.
meiert.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Psychology, Philosophy:

On the importance of our views of the world.
Psychology, Philosophy
On the importance of our views of the world.
meiert.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A (continuous) thread collecting coverage on the Israeli war on Palestine and the Israeli genocide on the Palestinian people.

#israel #palestine
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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3 User-Friendly Technical Ways to Respond to Genocidistan:

Imagine a country that colonizes another nation, attacks and murders their people, attacks other countries around them,—and no one stops them. What would you do? What could you do?
3 User-Friendly Technical Ways to Respond to Genocidistan
Imagine a country that colonizes another nation, attacks and murders their people, attacks other countries around them,—and no one stops them. What would you do? What could you do?
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November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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AI: The Real Problem Engineering Leaders Need to Have a Solution For:

The greatest challenge of today is not how our Engineering organizations should use AI, or what our Product organizations could accomplish with AI.
AI: The Real Problem Engineering Leaders Need to Have a Solution For
The greatest challenge of today is not how our Engineering organizations should use AI, or what our Product organizations could accomplish with AI.
meiert.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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HTML Minifier Next (maintained and enhanced successor of HTML Minifier) now allows to save and bookmark settings and (small) samples.

See e.g. is.gd/yXn4EX (too long to share without shortening) for a quick example.

#html #minification #htmlminifier #optimization
HTML Minifier Next
is.gd
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
HTML Minifier Next (maintained and enhanced successor of HTML Minifier) now allows to save and bookmark settings and (small) samples.

See e.g. is.gd/yXn4EX (too long to share without shortening) for a quick example.

#html #minification #htmlminifier #optimization
HTML Minifier Next
is.gd
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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« Cloudflare is the world's leading global MitM agency » https://www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare #privacy #cloudFlare
November 23, 2024 at 10:25 AM
A Suggestion for Your Community Terms and Policies:

Protect your community from including anyone realistically linked to war crimes or genocides, including former, current, and reserve members of the armed forces of implicated countries.
A Suggestion for Your Community Terms and Policies
Protect your community from including anyone realistically linked to war crimes or genocides, including former, current, and reserve members of the armed forces of implicated countries.
meiert.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXIV:

In this action-laden episode, link checks, file renaming, crawl settings, dependency substitutions, Eleventy performance profiling, recommendation handling, general performance optimization, and MCP servers.
Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXIV
In this action-laden episode, link checks, file renaming, crawl settings, dependency substitutions, Eleventy performance profiling, recommendation handling, general performance optimization, and MCP servers.
meiert.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXIV:

In this action-laden episode, link checks, file renaming, crawl settings, dependency substitutions, Eleventy performance profiling, recommendation handling, general performance optimization, and MCP servers.
Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXIV
In this action-laden episode, link checks, file renaming, crawl settings, dependency substitutions, Eleventy performance profiling, recommendation handling, general performance optimization, and MCP servers.
meiert.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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2025: 0 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML:

With the latest results from the annual HTML conformance analysis, the legend of what may be the most difficult language in the world continues to grow.
2025: 0 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML
With the latest results from the annual HTML conformance analysis, the legend of what may be the most difficult language in the world continues to grow.
meiert.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Everyone Should Earn the Same:

A thought experiment.
Everyone Should Earn the Same
A thought experiment.
meiert.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A Suggestion for Your Community Terms and Policies:

Protect your community from including anyone realistically linked to war crimes or genocides, including former, current, and reserve members of the armed forces of implicated countries.
A Suggestion for Your Community Terms and Policies
Protect your community from including anyone realistically linked to war crimes or genocides, including former, current, and reserve members of the armed forces of implicated countries.
meiert.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
From the archives:

The HTML History and Optimization Cheat Sheet:

meiert.com/blog/html-ch...

#html #optimization #cheatsheets
The HTML History and Optimization Cheat Sheet · Jens Oliver Meiert
Compare elements and specifications, check on void elements and optional tags.
meiert.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
@frontenddogma.com now features a good part—20%?—of @almaer.com’s and @octo.dad’s Ajaxian!

That means, many important articles from Ajaxian are now tagged and accessible through Frontend Dogma’s archives.

Ajaxian’s legacy lives on! 🙂 🥂

frontenddogma.com/topics/

#ajaxian #frontenddogma #webdev
Web Development Topics (987) · Frontend Dogma
frontenddogma.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
3 User-Friendly Technical Ways to Respond to Genocidistan:

Imagine a country that colonizes another nation, attacks and murders their people, attacks other countries around them,—and no one stops them. What would you do? What could you do?
3 User-Friendly Technical Ways to Respond to Genocidistan
Imagine a country that colonizes another nation, attacks and murders their people, attacks other countries around them,—and no one stops them. What would you do? What could you do?
meiert.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Now Available: “On Web Development II”!:

A comprehensive ebook marking another 10 years of meiert.com, featuring 180 curated articles on web development from 2015 to 2025.
Now Available: “On Web Development II”!
A comprehensive ebook marking another 10 years of meiert.com, featuring 180 curated articles on web development from 2015 to 2025.
meiert.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM