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

From the archives: Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way): meiert.com/blog/write-h... #html #xhtml

“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.” is.gd/T0u1er #israel #palestine #genocide

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.

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!

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

“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

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.

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

If you want to learn more about accessibility, check out @frontenddogma.com’s more than 2,000 articles on the topic. 📚 frontenddogma.com/topics/acces... #webdev #accessibility

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.

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

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

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.

npm Security Best Practices, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky): https://github.com/bodadotsh/npm-security-best-practices #npm #security #provenance #bestpractices

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

Dock workers are the new heads of state 🫡 www.politico.eu/article/putt... #palestine #israel #genocide

State of JavaScript 2025, by @[email protected] (@devographics.com): https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-js/2025 #surveys #javascript

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.

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