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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 4h

According to HTTP Archive, Next.js sites see the **worst** Core Web Vitals performance when compared to other popular frameworks

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Screenshot from https://httparchive.org/reports/techreport/tech?tech=ALL,Next.js,Ruby+on+Rails,Astro,SvelteKit,Svelte,React,VitePress&geo=ALL&rank=ALL&page=1

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 16h

I’m working on the sequel to the meiert.com anthology, “On Web Development,” which will feature the best tech articles from 2015 to 2025.

To get notified when the book is available, follow along on @leanpub.bsky.social: leanpub.com/on-web-devel...

I’m not the best at marketing, so yes, that’s it 😉

On Web Development II

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

Researching web dev topics?

@frontenddogma.com now allows to combine multiple tags. With about 18,000 entries and nearly 1,000 tags, this makes finding specific material even easier.

For example, what was going on with CSS hacks in the 2000s? frontenddogma.com/topics/filte...

#webdev #research

Topics Filter/Combinator · Frontend Dogma

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

From the archives:

Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way):

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#html #xhtml

Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way) · Jens Oliver Meiert

You may not use XHTML (anymore), but when you write HTML, you may be more influenced by XHTML than you think. You are very likely writing HTML, the XHTML way.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 5d

“What occurred in Gaza was not merely a humanitarian disaster; it was a deliberate environmental genocide, an intentional effort that destroyed the ecological systems that once sustained its people.”

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#israel #palestine #genocide

When Bombs Fell Silent: Israel’s Hidden War Against Gaza’s Land, Air, and Water - Quds News Network

When the bombing stops, Gaza’s land still dies. Beneath the silence of the ceasefire lies another war, one waged against the soil, the water, and the air that once sustained life.

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

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

On meiert.com, I’m writing about both technical and non-technical topics. If you prefer to stay up-to-date on just either, there are now two RSS sub-feeds available:

meiert.com/feed/tech/ for technical posts—and meiert.com/feed/non-tech/ for the non-technical ones.

Thank you for following!

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 · 7d

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.

www.dw.com/en/dishing-o...

Previous thoughts: meiert.com/blog/substit...

#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 · 8d

“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”:

www.palestinechronicle.com/israels-octo...

#palestine #israel #genocide

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 10d

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 · 12d

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. […]”

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

#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 · 13d

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 · 14d

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 · 14d

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.

meiert.com/blog/optiona...

#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 · 14d

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 · 14d

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 · 15d

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 · 17d

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):

meiert.com/blog/reduce-...

#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 · 19d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 24d

No Islamophobia:

On remaining vigilant against hatred.

No Islamophobia

On remaining vigilant against hatred.

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Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @meiert.com · 27d

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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