Ethics in Tech Publishing: On Human Rights and the Middle East
On tech publishers platforming individuals tied to military institutions under investigation for war crimes, implicating the wider developer community and normalizing atrocities.
Jens Oliver Meiert · On Craft and Responsibility
I’m Jens Oliver Meiert, and I’m an engineering lead, guerrilla philosopher, and indie publisher. I specialize in the craft of frontend development, write tech and non-tech books, and love trying things out. Follow my work on meiert.com.
Latest posts
5 Useful npx Helpers
Joy on the command line.
Western Hypocrisy Is Western Supremacism
An argument against double standards, separation, and a hierarchy of worth.
Maybe the “Webmaster” Isn’t Dead After All
On AI and an all-encompassing role in modern web development.
Sanctions Against Israel and the US—and an International Military Mission to End Israeli Colonization and Warmongering
Or, why the West needs help.
14 Tips for Working and Developing With AI
From guarding our professional expertise to rethinking processes, some advice for using LLMs effectively and responsibly.
Syntax Highlighting: No Extra HTML for Code Blocks via Custom Highlight API and syntaxp
Keeping it simple where it affects your code and your users.
HTML Minifier Next: JSON Schema, Cache Statistics, Default Config File
An update on the latest changes on the super-configurable web page minifier.
CSS: Deduplicate and Speed Up Your Style Sheets With CSS Dedup
On an old CSS optimization technique that is non-trivial to automate but for which there’s a new tool.
Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXVIII
On indentation, repo architecture, Twitter/X support, llms.txt, email address escaping, GitHub workflows, Dependabot configs, and test triggers.
AWAGAM: Easier Importing and Sharing of Blocklists With Bundles
Extending the TLD, domain, and URL blocker.
Israel, the United States, and Their European Clients vs. the European People
European leadership continues to back the violence against Palestinians (and other Muslim people), ignoring the clear and documented opposition of its own citizens.
Releasing Feed Ghost, a Dual-Purpose Web Tool to Access and Subscribe to Feeds via the Internet Archive
Are there RSS/Atom feeds of sources you mistrust but need to check or follow?
Anti-Pro-Palestine as Pro-Islamophobia, Pro-Racism, Pro-Genocide
On the weaponization of political discourse—and the necessity of enforcing values.
HTML Minifier Next 7 Is ESM-Only
The next major version of the super-configurable web page minifier is there.
On the Two Sides and the Spectrum That Is Open Source Maintenance
Open-source bureaucracy shifts the burden of issue reporting from maintainers to users. A look at the maintenance spectrum—and the risks of asking too much.
Beware the “First”
On zero-sum thinking and why “someone first” rhetoric destroys true leadership.
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 activity.
How to Provide a “Random Post” Feature With Eleventy and PHP
Try it out: webglossary.info/random.
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 corner.
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 players.
Slavery
Chances are, we’re all enslaved, and accept our lot rather than reimagine how we could all live together on this planet.
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 tasks?
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 incentives.
HTML.md
The briefest guidance for writing HTML.