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New Jun 6, 2026
Beware the “First”
On zero-sum thinking and why “someone first” rhetoric destroys true...
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New Jun 3, 2026
Releasing Middleman Alerter, a Chromium Extension to Warn About Third-Party Reverse Proxies
A mini-tool to make it transparent when another party can potentially access and correlate your online...
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New Jun 1, 2026
How to Provide a “Random Post” Feature With Eleventy and PHP
Try it out:...
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New May 30, 2026
On the Twisted Logic of Labeling Criticism of Israel as “Anti-Semitism”
When defending human rights is framed as prejudice, the public conscience is backed into a...
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New May 27, 2026
Websites Are Not Going to Die
AI search feels like a threat to the open Web, but the future of the Web does not depend on select large...
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New May 23, 2026
Slavery
Chances are, we’re all enslaved, and accept our lot rather than reimagine how we could all live together on this...
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New May 18, 2026
Releasing hihtml, a Supertool for HTML Validation, Link-Checking, and Minification
What if you only needed one tool to handle all the key HTML optimization...
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New May 11, 2026
AI and HTML: Validating, Omitting Optional Code, and Minifying as Token Optimization
Producing valid, minimal, and minified HTML aren’t just frontend development best practices—they’re also a token optimization strategy. On HTML optimization coming with new...
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New May 4, 2026
HTML.md
The briefest guidance for writing...
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New Apr 29, 2026
Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXVII
Refinements in content, design, CSS, JS, and AI—as always, sourced from project maintenance for the possible benefit of...
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New Apr 25, 2026
A Decent Person
Can we be, can we raise decent people if we cannot be against wars and genocides, if our governments prosecute being against wars and...
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New Apr 22, 2026
26 Tips to Become a Better Engineering Manager
Actionable tips for engineering leaders to foster trust, improve team performance, and manage the intricacies of the EM...
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New Apr 18, 2026
There Is No Elite Unless It Serves the People and the Environment
The word “elite” carries positive connotations that are hard to defend. A brief argument for what a true elite would look...
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New Apr 13, 2026
AI Will Never Be Ethical or Safe
On the importance, unknowability, and unignorability of context and...
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New Apr 8, 2026
A Simple Model to Address Work Performance Issues
Too often, we see leaders inadvertently and unnecessarily worsen perceived performance gaps, only to then struggle in turning the situation around. On a basic approach to understand and change what’s...
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New Apr 5, 2026
There Is No “Wrong” in CSS
CSS isn’t about universal “rights” or “wrongs”—a look at why standards aren’t dogmas, and why developer intent and platform responsibility may matter more than age of...
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New Mar 30, 2026
Releasing Searcher, a Configurable, Privacy-Minded Chromium Extension to Trigger Random Searches
A mini-tool to make it costlier to invade your...
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New Mar 28, 2026
“Conflict”
On not playing the modern language game, but calling things what they...
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New Mar 25, 2026
HTML Minifier Next: Zero-Config Mode, SVG Minification With SVGO, Even Faster
An update on recent improvements to the super-configurable web page...
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New Mar 23, 2026
The Web Development Glossary 4K
Introducing the latest edition of The Web Development Glossary, featuring updated definitions and nearly 1,000 additional terms. A must for anyone looking to navigate the web ecosystem and fill in...
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New Mar 18, 2026
Releasing .htaccess Punk—a Quick Helper to Check Redirects in .htaccess Files
Have you checked your .htaccess on broken redirects...
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New Mar 16, 2026
Astro: How to Set Up More Powerful HTML Minification (in 31 Seconds)
On improving HTML as well as CSS, JS, and SVG minification in Astro...
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New Mar 14, 2026
What if They Had Spent It on Peace?
Not only should we fight against civilian infrastructure intentionally being destroyed and entire civilian populations being displaced and killed—we must question the whole bias for...
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New Mar 11, 2026
Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXVI
In this action-packed episode, improvements around GitHub Actions, article headings, CDNs, spellchecking, stale branches, acronym handling, Bing authentication, Eleventy performance, and site...
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New Mar 9, 2026
On AI-Readying Engineering Organizations
What challenges increasing AI quality and proliferation bring for us as engineering...