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New Jan 17, 2026
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...
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New Jan 12, 2026
The Largest Web Development Glossary, Now as a JetBrains IDE Plugin
Thousands of web development terms, at your...
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New Jan 5, 2026
HTML Minifier Next: Even Faster, JavaScript Minification With SWC, SVG Minification
On making HMN better and...
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New Dec 31, 2025
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...
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New Dec 17, 2025
Open-Source Funding: Do We Need a “No Maintenance” Month?
FOSS February, Maintainer May, Hacktoberfest, and—No-Maintainence...
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New Dec 13, 2025
A Secret
10 years...
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New Dec 10, 2025
HTML Minifier Next: Presets, New Config Options, Minification Sharing, and Type Definitions
A quick overview of some recent improvements to one of the oldest and most versatile HTML...
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New Dec 7, 2025
Comparing HTML Minifiers
How do HTML Minifier Next, HTML Minifier Terser, htmlnano, @swc/html, minify-html, minimize, and htmlcompressor.com compare in terms of effectiveness, speed, and...
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New Dec 2, 2025
HTML Semantics: The Short Descriptions of All 113 Elements
A complete overview: How the HTML spec defines the meaning of all current HTML...
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New Nov 27, 2025
Eleventy: How to Set Up Effective HTML Minification (in 24 Seconds)
Install, add import and config,...
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New Nov 24, 2025
A Minimal CSS Starter
What would you include in a CSS starter, as a CSS minimalist? Submitting not a reset—yet perhaps five and a half surgical...
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New Nov 22, 2025
Psychology, Philosophy
On the importance of our views of the...
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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
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: Improved Minification, More Comprehensive CLI, Clearer Docs (and a Switch to Lightning CSS)
On making it easier to minify, optimize, and speed up HTML at...
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New Nov 1, 2025
The Economy Is Important Because
A...
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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...