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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 4h

Oh, just to clarify—I didn’t mean “as a professional” in your or anyone’s direction, just as an important qualifier. My conviction is that we need a bar, such as error-free output, for both the development of individuals and the field. Validation is a low bar, but better than the nothing we have.

Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 17h

Are you referring to hyper-optimized HTML? Because that argument would be really interesting—it just seems so hard to do right that I’m not sure anyone sustained writing HTML like this in practice.

If not hyper-optimized, why accept errors (as a professional)?

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The 6 Ways of Writing HTML (and Their Combinations) · Jens Oliver Meiert

There are 6 general ways of writing HTML: unsystematic, valid, semantic, accessible, required-only, and hyper-optimized. These types make for 19 combinations—the ways we write HTML.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 23h

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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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 1d

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Web Development × Engineering Management × Philosophy · Jens Oliver Meiert

I’m Jens Oliver Meiert, and I’m a web developer, manager, and author. I invest in the craft of frontend development, have written 23 books and booklets, and love trying things out. Follow my work on m...

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 1d

I suppose this is good news, because it makes it clear that steaks, burgers, sausages, &c. all consist of animal parts and represent nothing but suffering and death.

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#animals #sustainability #ethics #veganism

Plant-based 'burger' label grilled in EU parliament – DW – 10/08/2025

Can a veggie schnitzel legally be called a schnitzel even if it contains no meat? Some have argued such names are confusing consumers. The European Parliament seems to agree.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 2d

“Despite the world watching this live-streamed genocide, day in and day out, Gaza Holocaust Deniers and sympathizers continue to hide behind ‘October 7’ propaganda to justify the slaughter”:

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#palestine #israel #genocide

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 4d

The Other Problem With Not Helping an Entire People Being Murdered in a Genocide:

On the consistency that seems needed for everyone to be safe.

The Other Problem With Not Helping an Entire People Being Murdered in a Genocide

On the consistency that seems needed for everyone to be safe.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 6d

Zionizing, v.: “Gaslight an individual or group of people with such shameless narcissistic psychopathic audacity by denying reality to said individual/group while simultaneously playing the victim. […]”

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#israel #zionism #media

Urban Dictionary: Zionizing

zionizing: a verb which means to gaslight someone with such shameless narcissistic psychopathic audacity that you deny reality to their faces while...

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 7d

If you want to learn more about accessibility, check out @frontenddogma.com’s more than 2,000 articles on the topic. 📚

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#webdev #accessibility

“accessibility” News Archive · Frontend Dogma

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Yolanda Díaz @yolandadiaz.bsky.social · 8d

El ataque de Israel contra la Flotilla Global Sumud es un crimen contra el derecho internacional.

Exijimos a Israel la liberación inmediata de cualquier detenido.

La UE debe romper relaciones con Israel ya.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 8d

One frequently missed HTML optimization opportunity are attribute value defaults.

I maintain a list of these defaults that was just updated.

HTML Minifier Next is likely to get an option to auto-strip these from HTML code.

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#html #performance #optimization

Optional HTML: Everything You Need to Know · Jens Oliver Meiert

Optional HTML can be left out to improve performance, to guide code comprehension, and to hone the craft. An overview over all optional tags, rules around quotes for attribute values, and omissible at...

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 8d

Ours is a species that leaves it to unarmed civilians to deliver aid into a war zone to a people being exterminated and then watches as the civilians are being kidnapped.

But ours is also a species that destroys their own habitat, so it probably makes sense.

#unitednations #mankind #sumudflotilla

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 8d

Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXIII:

On updating links, creating subagents, working through to-dos, blocking extremists, reviewing configs, uninstalling shell plugins, re-configuring Git, optimizing rsync, and cleaning up Node.js installs.

Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXIII

On updating links, creating subagents, working through to-dos, blocking extremists, reviewing configs, uninstalling shell plugins, re-configuring Git, optimizing rsync, and cleaning up Node.js installs.

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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 9d

npm Security Best Practices, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://github.com/bodadotsh/npm-security-best-practices

#npm #security #provenance #bestpractices

GitHub - bodadotsh/npm-security-best-practices: How to stay safe from NPM supply chain attacks

How to stay safe from NPM supply chain attacks. Contribute to bodadotsh/npm-security-best-practices development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 11d

Given how prevalent invalid, fantasy HTML has become, HTML validation has actually become a performance optimization vector.

A footnote from my article on the first step of reducing HTML file size (omitting optional markup):

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#html #performance #conformance

5 Ways to Reduce HTML File Size on Your Website, Step 0 · Jens Oliver Meiert

The journey begins with an unpopular step.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 13d

Dock workers are the new heads of state 🫡

www.politico.eu/article/putt...

#palestine #israel #genocide

Dockworkers from across Europe gather to plan trade squeeze on Israel

Dockworker unions are fast becoming an important factor in exerting pressure over the war in Gaza.

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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 15d

State of JavaScript 2025, by @[email protected] (@devographics.com):

https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-js/2025

#surveys #javascript

State of JavaScript 2025

Take the State of JavaScript survey

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 15d

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.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 18d

No Islamophobia:

On remaining vigilant against hatred.

No Islamophobia

On remaining vigilant against hatred.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 21d

How the Anti-AI Movement Hurts Itself (and What It Could Do Instead):

Strong “yes” to AI criticism, strong “no” to anti-AI fanaticism.

How the Anti-AI Movement Hurts Itself (and What It Could Do Instead)

Strong “yes” to AI criticism, strong “no” to anti-AI fanaticism.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 22d

If you’re in the mood for how-tos today, check out @frontenddogma.com’s how-to archives! 📚

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#webdev #howto

“how-tos” News Archive · Frontend Dogma

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 23d

“The media tells us who the terrorists are, not, as we might think: the politicians, military commanders and ordinary soldiers responsible for this slaughter, but their victims.”

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#israel #palestine #genocide

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 25d

Can We Condemn All Acts of Terrorism?:

No to all violence—yet what if that ends up supporting oppression or worse? A scenario.

Can We Condemn All Acts of Terrorism?

No to all violence—yet what if that ends up supporting oppression or worse? A scenario.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 29d

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.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · Sep 7

If you’re in the mood for a quiz today, check out @frontenddogma.com’s quiz archives! 🧩

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#webdev #quizzes

“quizzes” News Archive · Frontend Dogma

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