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Where Has All the Valid HTML Gone · Jens Oliver Meiert
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When we look at the state of HTML… how much of it actually <em>is</em> HTML?
on Thu, 9PM
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On Title Case · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Casual thoughts about my experience with title case, a recent switch from AP-inspired to NYT-governed guidelines, and the respective guidelines themselves.
on Jul 28
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What I Learned About That Difficult Childhood · Jens Oliver Meiert
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On a changing—and perhaps transcending—perspective on pain.
on Sun, 6PM
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1 + 2 Engineering Team Priorities · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Are great teams “just doing the work”?
on Nov 14
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8 AI Tips for Web Developers (and Their Careers) · Jens Oliver Meiert
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AI is everywhere and comes with many problems and challenges. Yet as web developers, we need to adapt to a reality with AI. A few ideas on how we can make use of AI to the benefit of our work and our careers.
on Nov 12
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When You Are Rich · Jens Oliver Meiert
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On what you do as a person who is very rich.
on Nov 10
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200 Web-Based, Must-Try Web Design and Development Tools · Jens Oliver Meiert
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A couple of web-based and free tools to test and improve accessibility, performance, security, conformance, colors and images and typography, SEO and SEM and—more. With an opinion about link lists, and appreciation for well-maintained tool collections.
on Nov 7
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3 Things to Note About Democracy · Jens Oliver Meiert
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If we think democracy can do without education, constructive intentions, and quality candidates, I believe we’re not getting democracy—and risk it.
on Nov 6
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Everyone Can Set You Up for Failure, Not Everyone Sets You Up for Success · Jens Oliver Meiert
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On a conscious choice that we can make, and that we best make sure others make.
on Nov 2
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The Image Compression Challenge (Donating Money for Excess-Free Projects) · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Here’s a frontend challenge. Run an image compression tool capable of near-losslessly compressing PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP, and AVIF images over one of your main projects. Share if nothing could be compressed. I donate money for each of such projects.
on Oct 30
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“nofollow” Still Considered Harmful · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Well, <code>nofollow</code> is crap.
on Oct 24
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Website Optimization Measures, Part XXVII · Jens Oliver Meiert
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On improvements involving Eleventy (3), Lightning CSS, Imagemin Guard, early hints, ads, creator metadata, and custom/programmable search engines.
on Oct 24
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Results = ƒ(Competence × Time) · Jens Oliver Meiert
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On a model that can tell us something about how we work, and how we could work.
on Oct 23
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Boring Web Development · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Web development is boring—or should be more boring. On us tending to celebrate the wrong side of web development.
on Oct 17
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HTML/CSS Frameworks, in Their Own Words (by Word Cloud) · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Checking in on Bootstrap, Tailwind, Foundation, Bulma, Milligram, Pure, and UIkit.
on Oct 17
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Comparing Page Language Declaration Setups in Screen Readers · Jens Oliver Meiert
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One best practice in web development is to declare the document language via the <code>lang</code> attribute, on the <code>html</code> start tag. That is useful, but also not the only option. How well are different setups supported in screen readers? A few data points.
on Oct 16
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The Imagemin Guard package was just updated to move away from the unmaintained Imagemin family, and to improve code, tests, documentation, and usability. If you like to avoid unnecessary image payload, even in your repos, especially in environments where not everyone pays attention to it, this...
on Oct 9
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What Germany May Not Have Learned From the Holocaust · Jens Oliver Meiert
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No matter who is being violated, learning from a genocide means fighting against any genocide.
on Oct 8
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On Semantics in HTML · Jens Oliver Meiert
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As web developers we like to talk about “semantic markup,” a somehow inaccurate short form for “markup that is meaningful and used how it’s supposed to be used.” But where is all that meaning coming from? Let’s take a look.
on Oct 1
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Not Knowable · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Casual appreciation about our dealing with knowledge.
on Sep 29
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Untrained Engineering Managers · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Web development has always had a developer training issue, but it also has one on the management and leadership side. On a challenge we’re all familiar with but rarely talk and do something about.
on Sep 27
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2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML · Jens Oliver Meiert
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The annual HTML conformance analysis, validating 200 home pages of the most popular websites. Despite improvements, there is no signal of commitment to valid output as a quality baseline to benefit end users as well as web development as a profession.
on Sep 26
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Website Optimization Measures, Part XXVI · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Optimizations related to the Google docs viewer, dependency management, English terms in German copy, Prettier, AWS, SEO bots, Eleventy, and DreamHost.
on Sep 19
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An HTML Optimizer’s Config for html-minifier · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Jad (Joubran) asked me about my configuration for html-minifier the other week, and in a hurry I pointed him to the config I had worked out for sum.cumo. In my own projects, however, I work with a different, more ambitious setup.
on Sep 18
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On Ticket Management · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Issue tracking tools like Jira, GitHub Issues, or Bugzilla are essential for managing bugs and tasks (that is, issues). However, not everyone finds ticket management convenient or convincing. A perspective on why tickets matter, and how they can be used well.
on Sep 17
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The Assessment Paradox · Jens Oliver Meiert
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For any individual or group we may think that it can assess itself best because it knows itself best. Yet this is not reliable. We may then think it’s other individuals or groups interacting with that first individual or group who may be able to assess it. This is not so, either.
on Sep 14
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The HTML History and Optimization Cheat Sheet · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Compare elements and specifications, check on void elements and optional tags.
on Sep 12
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On Disagreement · Jens Oliver Meiert
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From discomfort that can lead to shortcuts to challenges that may yield transformations.
on Sep 8
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Notes on Setting Up a Static Website With AWS (Route 53, S3, ACM) · Jens Oliver Meiert
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…and whether doing so is worth it. (There are pos and cons, and they all seem pretty dramatic.)
on Sep 4
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Notes on Hooking Up a Website With Cloudflare · Jens Oliver Meiert
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I played around with Cloudflare.
on Sep 3
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Hearing and Imposing · Jens Oliver Meiert
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On the sense that we may be able to defend the least.
on Aug 31
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Why I Don’t Block AI Scrapers · Jens Oliver Meiert
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“The Tortoise and the Hare,” AI edition.
on Aug 30
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We Always Knew Anyone Could Take Our Content · Jens Oliver Meiert
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From “I show your content, but you get the click” to “I show your content” to “here’s other people’s content based on your content.”
on Aug 29
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We Always Knew Anyone Could Take Our Content · Jens Oliver Meiert
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From “I show your content, but you get the click” to “I show your content” to “here’s other people’s content based on your content.”
on Aug 29
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A Problem With Link Relationships · Jens Oliver Meiert
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It’s easy to get excited about link relationships and similar types of metadata. But link relationships are invisible information, and some invisible information is notoriously hard to maintain—especially on things that decay, describing attributes that change.
on Aug 23
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Now Available: “Rote Learning HTML & CSS,” the Most Boring Free Ebook Ever · Jens Oliver Meiert
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The book you never thought you wanted. The rough and raw skeleton of HTML and CSS. Elements, attributes, selectors, properties. No explanations, no examples, no context. Not a New York Times bestseller (it’s free).
on Aug 15
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A Node and Command Line Tool to Find Obsolete HTML · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Ever wondered if and where you have obsolete HTML in your code base? Of course, there’s a tool for that.
on Aug 12
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Feed Sources 2024 · Jens Oliver Meiert
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My current feed subscriptions. (Because, what would we be without syndication on the Web.)
on Aug 7
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Calling Someone “Too Old” Is Ageist · Jens Oliver Meiert
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The “too old” thing needs to stop.
on Aug 4
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Best Practices for ID and Class Names · Jens Oliver Meiert
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I’m working on another article for German Dr. Web mag, this time covering recommendations for IDs and classes, an issue likely as old as the Web itself. Taking a different approach than usual I’m feeling free to publish a “guerrilla sneak preview” in this place.
on Aug 1
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On Mapping the World of Frontend Development · Jens Oliver Meiert
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What if we had easy access to many—thousands—of the most useful, interesting, influential frontend development posts from 2000–2019? If you took care of it, how would you go about it, what challenges would you face, what would excite you? Here are some impressions, doing this work, for Frontend Dogma.
on Jul 30
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Thoughts on CSS in 2024 · Jens Oliver Meiert
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What I appreciate, what I don’t need (so far)—light and casual and certainly subjective notes on contemporary CSS.
on Jul 15
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The Anti-Reset (to Reset to User Agent Styles) · Jens Oliver Meiert
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I advise against resets. You don’t need them. (We don’t need them.) Yet what’s the opposite of a reset? Of all resets? The anti-reset. It looks something like this—
on Jul 13
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Transitive Optimization Considered—Interesting · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Transitive optimization means that if we improve A to optimize B, and optimizations of B also optimize C, then improving A should also lead to an optimization of C. But now what?
on Jul 10
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3 Good Reasons for Vegan and Vegetarian “Substitute” Products · Jens Oliver Meiert
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On acknowledging forms, maintaining connection, and making it easier to live empathically and sustainably.
on Jul 8
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The Essence of Veganism · Jens Oliver Meiert
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On not having anyone suffer or die for us.
on Jun 30
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Two Approaches to Accessibility on the Web · Jens Oliver Meiert
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One can distinguish two approaches to accessibility on the Web: to produce accessible websites and apps (active accessibility), and to produce accessible-making software (passive accessibility). On how largely using one approach would stand in the way of a greater vision for web accessibility.
on Jun 26
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Know the “search” Element · Jens Oliver Meiert
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Let’s talk about element #112.
on Jun 26