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New Nov 17, 2025
Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXIV
In this action-laden episode, link checks, file renaming, crawl settings, dependency substitutions, Eleventy performance profiling, recommendation handling, general performance optimization, and MCP...
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New Nov 12, 2025
A Suggestion for Your Community Terms and Policies
Protect your community from including anyone realistically linked to war crimes or genocides, including former, current, and reserve members of the armed forces of implicated...
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New Nov 8, 2025
3 User-Friendly Technical Ways to Respond to Genocidistan
Imagine a country that colonizes another nation, attacks and murders their people, attacks other countries around them,—and no one stops them. What would you do? What could you...
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New Nov 5, 2025
Now Available: “On Web Development II”!
A comprehensive ebook marking another 10 years of meiert.com, featuring 180 curated articles on web development from 2015 to...
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New Nov 4, 2025
HTML Minifier Next: Now With Lightning CSS
On replacing clean-css with an effective alternative to handle CSS...
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New Nov 1, 2025
The Economy Is Important Because
A...
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New Oct 28, 2025
HTML Minifier Next: Improved Minification, More Comprehensive CLI, Clearer Docs
On making it easier to minify, optimize, and speed up HTML at...
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New Oct 26, 2025
Nostr: How to Generate Your Keys Locally
You know something isn’t ready for prime time...
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New Oct 25, 2025
Everyone Should Earn the Same
A thought...
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New Oct 18, 2025
Millionaires and Billionaires
On being able to do amazing things for humanity and the planet, and doing the...
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New Oct 8, 2025
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...
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New Oct 4, 2025
The Other Problem With Not Helping an Entire People Being Murdered in a Genocide
On the consistency that seems needed for everyone to be...
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New Sep 30, 2025
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...
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New Sep 23, 2025
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...
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New Sep 20, 2025
No Islamophobia
On remaining vigilant against...
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New Sep 17, 2025
How the Anti-AI Movement Hurts Itself (and What It Could Do Instead)
Strong “yes” to AI criticism, strong “no” to anti-AI...
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New Sep 13, 2025
Can We Condemn All Acts of Terrorism?
“No” to all violence—yet what if that ends up supporting oppression or worse? A...
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New Sep 9, 2025
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...
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New Sep 2, 2025
.htaccess: A Helper Script to Easily Block Website Traffic by Country
On making it easy to pull and customize IP ranges from...
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New Aug 30, 2025
On Trust
How trust is active, not passive, how it’s connected with truth, and how we’re in...
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New Aug 27, 2025
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...
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New Aug 20, 2025
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...
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New Aug 7, 2025
Should We Never Use Non-Logical Properties?
In CSS, it’s extremely hard to argue against the use of...
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New Aug 2, 2025
The Great Disappointment
It’s 2025, and web development has never appeared more apolitical. On tech influencers, without a...
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New Jul 26, 2025
A Chromium Browser Extension to Counter Warmongering, Genocidal, Misanthropic Actors
Block navigating to and loading from URLs, domains, and entire top-level domains with a user-configurable browser...