Jens Oliver Meiert

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...

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...

Lifeform User Story

On sentient beings of all species being dominated and their habitats...

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...

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...

The Problems With Being an Influencer With Millions of Followers

When you have 99 problems—and you’re not unhappy that being an influencer isn’t one of...

10 Things I Learned Applying to 200 Positions in 1 Year

One of many stories about a tech market undergoing transformation. (If you’re out there on the market, don’t lose sight of your strengths. You are...

How Often Should We Speak About HTML Conformance?

Our field ships erroneous and fantasy HTML, all the time. When we analyze how often we talk about valid HTML, we obtain varying data. Let’s review what’s going...

Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXI

Qodana! html-minifier-terser! Privacy! Git! Automation! Eleventy! GitHub Actions! Cron jobs! Migrations! Maintenance has no...

Ethics in Tech: On an Issue Particularly Sensitive to Germans

When it’s about learning from your country’s...

Web Development Has a Short-Term Memory

Our field generally likes DRY code, but that doesn’t apply to what we’re writing...

Jens Oliver Meiert: How WebStorm and AI Assistant Fit Right Into My Workflow

Connection to the Environment

On that feeling of being one with everyone and everything that we’re all...

Eleventy: A GitHub Workflow to Check if an Automated Dependency Update Would Break Your Site

A little safety measure to prevent updates to package.json, package-lock.json, and .nvmrc (or similar) from causing a...

How I Run Eleventy (It’s Complicated?)

Aliases, debug mode, non-versioned builds as part of a centralized, versioned site exports repo—and the thinking behind it...

5 Ways to Reduce HTML File Size on Your Website, Step 0

The journey begins with an unpopular...

Empathy

Lack of empathy is not a sign of strength, but a liability for all of...

New Book: Tara (A Utopia)

A human-inspired, AI-generated, human-edited story about refusing to live in a dystopia—and transforming the world...

Micro-Scrum

Decide on one thing to ship, then ship (or...

Markup Languages

Just something to remember HDML, DHTML, WML, and...

Where to Put a Mouse or Trackpad

On a setup that is standard on notebooks but that seems unpopular on...

Where Frontend Dogma Gets Its News From

On sources for news and views that approach 4,000 items per...

Utilization

Why don’t we talk more about queueing...

Prisoner’s Dilemma

On “tit for tat” with about 10% more...

Forwarding Appreciated: A WhatsApp [and Signal and LinkedIn] Link Sharing Bug That Cannot Be Reported

There’s an issue with WhatsApp link sharing that cannot be brought to WhatsApp’s attention. If you know someone at WhatsApp, please help (support appreciated with Signal and LinkedIn,...