“[…] the U.S. and Israelis are simply toying with the people of Gaza, demonstrating pure sadism. There is no genuine attempt to better their lives. If there were, the U.S. would have put together meaningful plans.” www.palestinechronicle.com/building-dis... #palestine #israel #usa

🇪🇺 Petition for the suspension of the EU–Israel Association Agreement given Israel’s continuous violations of human rights and international law: eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/ #israel #europe #palestine #genocide

Psychology, Philosophy: On the importance of our views of the world.

If you want to avoid accessing or loading anything from a person, organization, or country, I’m feeling free to recommend two homemade Chromium extensions: AWAGAM, to block URLs, domains, and TLDs: meiert.net/awagam Country Highlighter, to spot country mentions on social media: meiert.net/ch

How to Improve Your HTML Game: On moving beyond unsystematic HTML by choosing a deliberate writing style, committing to validation, and regularly consulting the specification.

It took a while, but the State of JS 2025 survey results are now live! 2025.stateofjs.com/en-US Thanks to @danielroe.dev for contributing the conclusion.

Moving Away From U.S. Services: A Few Favorites: On increasing the price for disrespecting international law and the international community, by changing our choices on who gets our attention and our money.

The @frontenddogma.com archives are growing: They now include past articles from @ppkoch.bsky.social (87 entries) and @burningbird.net (35). There’s no direct way to access content from specific individuals and organizations, but many ways to explore: frontenddogma.com/topics/

HTML Minifier Next 5, a Quick Upgrade Guide: A checklist to work through the breaking changes of this major update.

7 Ways to Manage Large-Scale Taxonomies: An experience-based, practical guide to controlling hundreds or thousands of tags.

Introducing ReliCSS: A Tool for Front-End Archaeology, by @[email protected]: https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/introducing-relicss-a-tool-for-front-end-archaeology #introductions #tooling #css #auditing

Into web development, too? I’ve just released updates (and new covers) for nearly all of my books 📚 💶 Celebrate with me and use code “2026” for a limited 50% discount on most titles on Leanpub and Gumroad: Check out leanpub.com/u/j9t and j9t.gumroad.com! #webdev

@frontenddogma.com’s archives now include many old articles from html5doctor.com and digital-web.com (do you remember them?) 🙌 There’s no direct way to access these, but the respective articles are part of the growing archives for the 2000s: frontenddogma.com/topics/2000s/ #webdev #history

I ❤️ Spain. Not perfect, but much rather how we should respond to people joining us. That unempathetic, disrespectful, hateful way of treating migrants elsewhere? It’s that—lack of empathy combined with disrespect and hatred. www.bbc.com/news/article... #migration #spain

On the Need for Neutral Maintained Minifier Metrics: Kirill Maltsev (htmlnano) and I on the usefulness of having an independent home for regularly updated HTML (and other) minifiers. Do you like to help? dev.to/j9t/on-the-n... #html #minifiers #metrics #comparison

Moving Away From U.S. Services: A Few Favorites: On increasing the price for disrespecting international law and the international community, by changing our choices on who gets our attention and our money.

From the archives: On the Deterioration of HTML/CSS Practices: meiert.com/blog/deterio... #webdev #html #css #quality

Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXV: On markup for tags, Basecoat and Tailwind, Eleventy passthroughs, quotes, loops, links, Markdown code blocks, GitHub Actions, and Markdown indentation.

I really like how Sentry has been moving to a more dense design; too few services, maybe Google Cloud Console being another example, embrace information density. For more than a decade, it has felt as if that density was a problem— 1/2

Claude Code: I was a fan. Pro plan. Convinced of the quality. Also didn’t believe they were *so* bad (like OpenAI or Perplexity). But Anthropic did this: Without notice, usage limits were dialed down, and *any* small piece of work now costs extra. (So reports seem true.) 1/2

On Navigating a World That Burns and Suffers: What helps us deal with this spiraling mess out there is understanding something about our model of the world, making conscious decisions about who we are, and being smart about how we bring about change.

I worked through 100,000s of emails in Gmail, and after endlessly searching and checking, I suggest: 👉 If you don’t delete any emails, start today. 👉 Also, if you don’t label pretty much *everything*, start today as well. On the day you pack up, this will come extremely useful. #gmail #email

The 2025 Web Almanac by HTTP Archive has been officially released! 🚀 We would like to thank all of our contributors from around the globe who made this extensive report possible! Check out the full report here: almanac.httparchive.org

If you need more web development tricks up your sleeve 🃏 frontenddogma.com/topics/tips-... #webdev #tipsandtricks

The Largest Web Development Glossary, Now as a JetBrains IDE Plugin: Thousands of web development terms, at your fingertips.

Web development term of the day: → A

From the archives: 14 Tips for Becoming an Indie Author: meiert.com/blog/14-tips... #writing #tips

I’ve been researching and documenting the countries of origin for the products, services and tools I use. This has clearly shown just how dominant the U.S. are, not only in Tech. It has also surfaced a number of Israeli services where not expected.

If you want to dive into or get a historical perspective on CSS, check out @frontenddogma.com’s now 3,700 articles on the subject: frontenddogma.com/topics/css/ Tip: You can narrow this down with other tags, as in frontenddogma.com/topics/filte... for conformance-related articles. #webdev #css

Why RSS Matters, by @werd.io: https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/ #rss #syndication #socialmedia

A note, if you like to support my work for the field and the community, please join one of my tiers on Patreon! (I’ve thought about ways to give something of value to you in return, and am always open to discussing what’s better for everyone!) www.patreon.com/c/j9t

HTML Minifier Next: Even Faster, JavaScript Minification With SWC, SVG Minification: On making HMN better and better.

Started blogging in ’95. Nearly all site’s my content from the past 30 years is still up. Sadly, the same can’t be said for most third-party content I linked to. Happily, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer solves much of this. wordpress.org/plugins/inte...

From the archives: Custom Properties: Questioning “:root”: meiert.com/blog/questio... #css #customproperties #selectors

It’s also Europe’s security interest that California becomes part of the European Union. #usa #europe #greenland

“The European response has been pathetic”—Jeffrey Sachs calling a spade a spade wrt Venezuela: youtu.be/nXKcdHBFqlU #venezuela #europe

Trump voters have turned the most powerful country in the world - the longtime leader of the democratic West - into a violent rogue state. In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order. This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

Only Venezuela should decide about their future. Only Palestine should decide about their future. Only we should decide about our own countries’ futures. www.dailysabah.com/world/americ... #venezuela #palestine #usa #selfdetermination

This isn’t true, is it. One country didn’t just hijack the leader of another country, did they.

So fed up. And no, I don’t believe in mass media journalism, and even less in the international community (cf. Israel). We cannot have hate keep dictating who we are and what we do. www.straitstimes.com/world/column... #venezuela #usa #geopolitics

We condemn grotesque sexual assaults by Israeli forces. We demand accountability amid systemic culture of impunity. freedomflotilla.org/2026/01/02/f...

2025: On an extremely productive year that ended with a significant personal update, and a year that I’ll forever connect with genocidal colonialism, the breakdown of international law, and alienation from my home country.

If there’s just ONE of your 2025 articles or videos people should read or watch, what would it be? I’d select this non-tech one: “3 User-Friendly Technical Ways to Respond to Genocidistan”: meiert.com/blog/genocid... Please respond and ♻️ share! Have a good start into the new year everyone.

Introducing Flint: a fast, friendly linter. Flint is an experimental linter made to validate several hypotheses: hybrid linting, streamlined rich configuration, thorough docs & plugins, and tooling coordination. Expect to hear more about Flint over the next month. ❤️‍🔥 www.flint.fyi/blog/introdu...

Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. Let that sink in. File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"... www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

The Top 5 tech posts on meiert.com in 2025 ⏱ ① meiert.com/blog/minimal... ② meiert.com/blog/html-se... ③ meiert.com/blog/the-ant... ④ meiert.com/blog/minimal... ⑤ meiert.com/blog/compari... (More: meiert.com/en/blog/popu...) Thank you for reading—have a great start into the new year! 🛸

Relatively to itself, HTML Minifier Next is by now 4–6 times faster than when the project started (and, therefore, its predecessors). This comes on top of many improvements. Try it out—and let me know about issues and suggestions! www.npmjs.com/package/html... #html #minification #optimization