Jens Oliver Meiert is a web developer, engineering manager, and author. He specializes in minimal, tailored frontend development, contributes to web standards, and writes books like the Upgrade Your HTML series. He also explores philosophy and unifying models of reality.
47 articles from this blog
Explores syntax highlighting using the Custom Highlight API with syntaxp, a minimal script that avoids extra HTML for code blocks.
HTML Minifier Next updates: JSON Schema for config, cache statistics output, and automatic default config file detection.
Introduces CSS Dedup, a tool to automate UDJO optimization for faster, cleaner style sheets.
Part 38 of a series on website optimization, covering code indentation, repo restructuring, and metadata cleanup.
AWAGAM introduces bundles for easier importing and sharing of blocklists in Chromium browsers, with upcoming WebKit and Android support.
Announcing Feed Ghost, a web tool to access and subscribe to RSS/Atom feeds via the Internet Archive for safer feed browsing.
HTML Minifier Next 7 drops CommonJS support, becoming ESM-only, and merges two type attribute removal options.
Explores the challenges of open-source maintenance, balancing maintainer and user needs, and the spectrum of burden sharing.
A new Chromium extension, Middleman Alerter, warns users when websites route traffic through third-party reverse proxies like Cloudflare.
Learn how to add a random post feature to an Eleventy site using PHP for random redirection.
Analysis arguing websites won't die despite AI search changes, emphasizing the enduring value of human-created web content.
Announcing hihtml, a unified tool for HTML validation, link-checking, and minification, simplifying web quality control.
Explains how valid, optional-omitted, and minified HTML reduces LLM token consumption, with tools and arguments for optimization.
A draft for HTML.md proposes three foundational rules for writing semantic, minimal, and valid HTML, emphasizing quality over complexity.
A blog post detailing various website optimization and maintenance tips, including code refactoring, design tweaks, and dependency management.
A list of 26 practical tips for engineering managers covering organization, team events, 1:1s, alignment, and more.
Explores why AI can never be fully ethical or safe due to the fundamental inability to know context and intent.
A management model for addressing low work performance by distinguishing skills vs. motivation issues.
Explores whether CSS can be considered 'wrong', arguing that working code is valid and changeable.
Release of Searcher, a privacy-minded Chromium extension that triggers random searches on Google, Amazon, and other sites to protect user privacy.
