No Islamophobia: On remaining vigilant against hatred.

How the Anti-AI Movement Hurts Itself (and What It Could Do Instead): Strong “yes” to AI criticism, strong “no” to anti-AI fanaticism.

If you’re in the mood for how-tos today, check out @frontenddogma.com’s how-to archives! 📚 frontenddogma.com/topics/how-t... #webdev #howto

“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.” www.palestinechronicle.com/israels-geno... #israel #palestine #genocide

Can We Condemn All Acts of Terrorism?: No to all violence—yet what if that ends up supporting oppression or worse? A scenario.

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.

If you’re in the mood for a quiz today, check out @frontenddogma.com’s quiz archives! 🧩 frontenddogma.com/topics/quizz... #webdev #quizzes

From the archives: What We Should Teach Up-and-Coming Developers: meiert.com/blog/teachin... #webdev #career

.htaccess: A Helper Script to Easily Block Website Traffic by Country: On making it easy to pull and customize IP ranges from IPdeny.

There are many reasons against CSS resets, the biggest one being all the websites that do without them. When we look at the situation closely, their continued use becomes almost bizarre. Some food for thought? Last year’s article for SitePoint: www.sitepoint.com/css-reset-co... #css #resets

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/

It’s “World Day for the End of Speciesism” today. end-of-speciesism.org/en/ What is speciesism? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species... Does it have anything to do with other -isms? Well, it’s the same spiel: meiert.com/blog/no-agei... End it. #speciesism

Why You Absolutely Need to Have Automated Dependency Management in Place: Although tooling is abundant, good, and free, many projects still have no system in place to manage software dependencies. This comes with unnecessary risk and leads to unnecessary work.

📢 Calling on Entrepreneurs, Founders, and CEOs worldwide: Sign the pledge and be part of the global movement for a Free Palestine. Link to join: entrepreneursforpalestine.com/pledge

JavaScript Engines Explained—Comparing V8, SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore, and More, by @designerly.bsky.social: https://frontenddogma.com/posts/2025/javascript-engines-explained/ #guestposts #javascript #javascriptengines #v8 #spidermonkey

From the archives: New to Web Development? Run Your Own Website: meiert.com/blog/new-to-... #career #webdev

Web development term of the day: → Cascading HTML Style Sheets

Tech Is Political: Take More Action Against Countries and Organizations Engaged in Wars, Genocides, and Misanthropy: As consumers, social media participants, and website owners, we can do a lot more to protest and increase consequences for crimes against minorities or humanity as a whole.

Should We Never Use Non-Logical Properties?: It turns out that in CSS, it’s extremely hard to argue against the use of anything.

The Great Disappointment: It’s 2025, and web development has never appeared more apolitical. On tech influencers, without a cause.

It’s HTML Day!—and for that reason, all my HTML ebooks are 50% off today on Gumroad, with discount code “htmlday”. j9t.gumroad.com #html #htmlday #gumroad

HTML Day 2025, by @htmlenergy.bsky.social: https://html.energy/html-day/2025/ #awarenessdays #html

From the archives: How to Order CSS Selectors: meiert.com/blog/how-to-... #webdev #css #selectors #sorting

A Chromium Browser Extension to Counter Warmongering, Genocidal, Misanthropic Actors: Block URLs, domains, and entire top-level domains with a user-configurable browser extension.

Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide: On using all of HTML’s features and ensuring that HTML code is error-free—two surprisingly underused and unpopular approaches to writing HTML.

From the archives: Stop Closing Void Elements: meiert.com/blog/stop-cl... #html #minimalism

Naked and Semantic:

“…our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”—Tanya Mukani Join and support this beautiful event that a friend of mine organizes with more friends in South Africa. For the people and nation of Palestine 🇵🇸 www.songsforfreedom.org #palestine

HTML Minifier Next (a Maintained Fork of HTML Minifier): On providing an alternative version of HTML Minifier, critical web tooling that cannot remain unmaintained.

What Counter-Strike Taught Me About A__holes: Sometimes, being who you are requires being who you are not.

From the archives: The 3-Second Frontend Developer Test: meiert.com/blog/the-fro... #html #css #conformance

How to Identify Your Unknown Unknowns in Web Development: You know your knowns, you know some unknowns, but what do you do about your unknown unknowns? On two resources that help.

German Holocaust Remembrance Culture Is Dead Inside: We do not stop genocides by cherry-picking which ones to regret.

'See it. Say it. Censored.’ is an artist-led alternative PSA presented by Kneecap that demands urgent action to stop the genocide unfolding in Gaza. Created by a coalition of artists and powered by the testimony of medics and activists, find out more here: stopthegenocide.info STOP THE GENOCIDE

Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXII: On “internal server error” pages, Eleventy configs and passthroughs, content security policy hardening and sorting, Apple store links, and link checking and trimming.

If you’re in the mood for special-purpose and single-serving websites today, check out @frontenddogma.com’s websites collection! ⛳️ frontenddogma.com/topics/websi... #webdev #websites

My War, Genocide, and Misanthropy Policy: If our countries don’t take meaningful action to put an end to large-scale crimes, it doesn’t mean we have to just watch.

CSS: The Pain Is Real: With presentational HTML, it’s impossible to do a CSS-only redesign. With strict separation of concerns, it’s incredibly rare to observe a CSS-only redesign. On a not-frequently-made observation around maintainability, which is to make changes more predictable.

This Is My Child: It should not be alive and well only because his parents are white people living in a European democracy not governed by fascists.

Speed, Cost, Quality, Choose 2 = Pragmatism, Passion, or Perfectionism: Whenever presented to choose two of speed, cost, or quality, do you tend to have the same preferences? It may be because that choice translates to certain values.

Ethics: On the Suspicion That Utilitarianism Is Failing Us: Utilitarianism isn’t inclusive. Focusing on responsibility, as one option, helps us better connect with everyone around us.

The 2025 State of CSS survey is now open! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

From the archives: Optional HTML: Everything You Need to Know: meiert.com/blog/optiona... #html #minimalism

Lifeform User Story: On sentient beings of all species being dominated and their habitats destroyed.

Culture: I’ve always been a fan of the concept of “googliness.” As a former Googler, I’ve shared one the earliest definitions. Although my time at Google ended a decade ago, over the years I’ve amended the definition. I think googliness is a great part of Google’s history still worth aspiring to:

The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding, by @fredbenenson.com (@[email protected]): https://archive.fo/RuBQu #ai #vibecoding #metrics #economics #tipsandtricks

Another Look at Productivity and How to Influence It: Ability, Attitude, Tooling: We cannot control all the factors, but it seems particularly instructive to dissect those that contribute to output.

The Magic of the Most Minimal HTML Possible (and Why We Don’t Make Use of It): On challenging XHTML–HTML and regular redos, by looking at HTML–HTML, full separation of concerns, and iterations.

If you’re in the mood for web services today, check out @frontenddogma.com’s web services archives! 😬 frontenddogma.com/topics/web-s... #webdev #webservices

A Brief History of JavaScript, by @[email protected]: https://deno.com/blog/history-of-javascript #history #javascript #ecmascript #typescript #json