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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
Reposted by Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
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
HTML minification:

Extended the HTML Minifier Next benchmarks with @swc/html, and regenerated the data:

github.com/j9t/html-min...

The goal is to deliver the best results, so if you spot an issue with a tool’s settings, please help keep the tests ambitious!

#html #minification #optimization
GitHub - j9t/html-minifier-next: Highly configurable, well-tested, JavaScript-based HTML minifier (maintained and enhanced fork of HTML Minifier)
Highly configurable, well-tested, JavaScript-based HTML minifier (maintained and enhanced fork of HTML Minifier) - j9t/html-minifier-next
github.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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On Trust:

How trust is active, not passive, how it’s connected with truth, and how we’re in trouble.

meiert.com/blog/on-trust/
On Trust · Jens Oliver Meiert
How trust is active, not passive, how it’s connected with truth, and how we’re in trouble.
meiert.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Empathy:

Lack of empathy is not a sign of strength, but a liability for all of us.
Empathy
Lack of empathy is not a sign of strength, but a liability for all of us.
meiert.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Eleventy: How to Set Up Effective HTML Minification (in 24 Seconds):

Install, add import and config, done.
Eleventy: How to Set Up Effective HTML Minification (in 24 Seconds)
Install, add import and config, done.
meiert.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Where to Put a Mouse or Trackpad:

On a setup that is standard on notebooks but that seems unpopular on desktops.
Where to Put a Mouse or Trackpad · Jens Oliver Meiert
On a setup that is standard on notebooks but that seems unpopular on desktops.
meiert.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
HTML Minifier Next (maintained successor of HTML Minifier) now comes with presets, making it easier to get started:

github.com/j9t/html-min...

Simple demo: is.gd/CA2C3v

#html #minification #optimization
GitHub - j9t/html-minifier-next: Highly configurable, well-tested, JavaScript-based HTML minifier (maintained and enhanced fork of HTML Minifier)
Highly configurable, well-tested, JavaScript-based HTML minifier (maintained and enhanced fork of HTML Minifier) - j9t/html-minifier-next
github.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
From the archives:

Notes on HTML 3.2:

meiert.com/blog/notes-o...

#html
Notes on HTML 3.2 · Jens Oliver Meiert
Would it still be useful to read the HTML 3.2 specification—from 1997? A few observations.
meiert.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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.htaccess: A Helper Script to Easily Block Website Traffic by Country:

On making it easy to pull and customize IP ranges from IPdeny.
.htaccess: A Helper Script to Easily Block Website Traffic by Country
On making it easy to pull and customize IP ranges from IPdeny.
meiert.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:00 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
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
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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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
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