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Culture: I’ve always been a fan of the concept of “googliness.” As a former Googler, I’ve shared one the earliest definitions. Although my time at Google ended a decade ago, over the years I’ve amended the definition. I think googliness is a great part of Google’s history still worth aspiring to:

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The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding, by @fredbenenson.com (@[email protected]): https://archive.fo/RuBQu #ai #vibecoding #metrics #economics #tipsandtricks

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Another Look at Productivity and How to Influence It: Ability, Attitude, Tooling: We cannot control all the factors, but it seems particularly instructive to dissect those that contribute to output.

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The Magic of the Most Minimal HTML Possible (and Why We Don’t Make Use of It): On challenging XHTML–HTML and regular redos, by looking at HTML–HTML, full separation of concerns, and iterations.

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If you’re in the mood for web services today, check out @frontenddogma.com’s web services archives! 😬 frontenddogma.com/topics/web-s... #webdev #webservices

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A Brief History of JavaScript, by @[email protected]: https://deno.com/blog/history-of-javascript #history #javascript #ecmascript #typescript #json

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The Problems With Being an Influencer With Millions of Followers: When you have 99 problems—and you’re not unhappy that being an influencer isn’t one of them.

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From the archives: User Agent Style Sheets: Basics and Samples: meiert.com/blog/user-ag... #css #browsers

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10 Things I Learned Applying to 200 Positions in 1 Year: One of many stories about a tech market undergoing transformation. (If you’re out there on the market, don’t lose sight of your strengths. You are awesome.)

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How Often Should We Speak About HTML Conformance?: Our field ships erroneous and fantasy HTML, all the time. When we analyze how often we talk about valid HTML, we obtain varying data. Let’s review what’s going on.

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From the archives: When to Open Links in a New Tab: meiert.com/blog/links-i... #links #usability #hypertext

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Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXI: Qodana! html-minifier-terser! Privacy! Git! Automation! Eleventy! GitHub Actions! Cron Jobs! Migrations! Maintenance has no limits.

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Ethics in Tech: On an Issue Particularly Sensitive to Germans: On learning from your country’s crimes.

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Web Development Has a Short-Term Memory: Our field generally likes DRY code, but that doesn’t apply to what we’re writing about.

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Discover how AI Assistant is taking WebStorm to the next level! ✨ @meiert.com shares his experience after 20+ years with JetBrains tools — and why embracing AI is key to staying effective as a developer. blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/202...

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Connection to the Environment: On that feeling of being one with everyone and everything that we’re all experiencing.

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Mastering HTML: The Art of Minimal and Valid Code in Professional Web Development, by @meiert.com [@frontenddogma.com]: https://frontenddogma.com/posts/2025/mastering-html-the-art-of-minimal-and-valid-code-in-professional-web-development/ #guestposts #html #minimalism #conformance

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Eleventy: A GitHub Workflow to Check if an Automated Dependency Update Would Break Your Site: A little safety measure to prevent updates to package.json, package-lock.json, and .nvmrc (or similar) from causing a hiccup.

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Lost entries: If you’re interested in articles I wasn’t sure about but still decided to publish, then this is the thread I’ll dedicate to such “lost” works. For a start, in 2021, I dusted off 5 articles that I backdated on my site: mirrors.meiert.org/@j9t@twitter... #archives #personal

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Web development term of the day: → Palpable content

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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

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How I Run Eleventy (It’s Complicated?): Aliases, debug mode, non-versioned builds as part of a centralized, versioned site exports repo—and the thinking behind it all.

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5 Ways to Reduce HTML File Size on Your Website, Step 0: The journey begins with an unpopular step.

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From the archives: On the Uniting Power of a Commitment to HTML Conformance: meiert.com/en/blog/comm... #html #conformance #validation

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If you’re in the mood for XHTML today, check out @frontenddogma’s XHTML archives! ❎ frontenddogma.com/topics/xhtml/ #webdev #xhtml

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Empathy: Lack of empathy is not a sign of strength, but a liability for all of us.

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Thanks to Fabien Basmaison (with whom I maintain the CSS Naked Day site), CSS Naked Day has a new home, css-naked-day.org! See your websites CSS-free on April 9! 📺 #css #cssnakedday

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New Book: Tara (A Utopia): A human-inspired, AI-generated, human-edited story about refusing to live in a dystopia—and transforming it.

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CSS: Only one week left until this year’s CSS Naked Day (April 9)!

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Micro-Scrum: Decide on one thing to ship, then ship (or learn).

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From the archives: Choke Web Development Framework 1.0:

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Markup Languages: Just something to remember HDML, DHTML, WML, and cHTML.

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If you haven’t set up dark mode for your site(s) yet, I’ll toot the horn and say this still gives you a fast leg up:

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Where to Put a Mouse or Trackpad: On a setup that is standard on notebooks but that seems unpopular on desktops.

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Where Frontend Dogma Gets Its News From: On sources for news and views that approach 4,000 items per year.

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But How to Get to That European Cloud?, by @[email protected]: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-get-that-european-cloud/ #cloudcomputing #policies #foss

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Utilization: Why don’t we talk more about queueing theory.

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Prisoner’s Dilemma: On “tit for tat” with about 10% more forgiveness: a brief personal response to www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScp.... meiert.com/en/blog/pris...

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Forwarding Appreciated: A WhatsApp Link Sharing Bug That Cannot Be Reported: There’s an issue with WhatsApp link sharing that cannot be brought to WhatsApp’s attention. If you know someone at WhatsApp, please help (support appreciated with Signal and LinkedIn, too).

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From the archives: On Writing Better Markup:

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