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Jens Oliver Meiert · Code Optimization, Digital Defense, World Models

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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.

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59 from 8 May 2024 to 28 Oct 2026
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2026 55

  1. Whether AI Will Be Catastrophic for Software Development Depends on Maintenance—and a Decision
  2. Automatic Internal Linking in WordPress, a Plugin: ntrnllnk
  3. There Is No Elite Unless It Serves the People and the Environment
  4. HTML Minifier Next: Extended Benchmarks, Self-Close Foreign Elements, Fewer Redundant Attributes, JSON Minification Opt-In
  5. 26 Tips to Become a Better Engineering Manager
  6. How to Set Up Web Page Minification With Jekyll
  7. A Decent Person
  8. How to Set Up Web Page Minification With VitePress
  9. Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXVII
  10. On Not Changing as You Grow Older
  11. HTML.md
  12. CSS Optimization: Is Using Declarations Just Once (UDJO) Still Effective Today?
  13. AI and HTML: Validating, Omitting Optional Code, and Minifying as Token Optimization
  14. A Short Theory of the Political Spectrum
  15. Releasing hihtml, a Supertool for HTML Validation, Link-Checking, and Minification
  16. On the Decision Underlying Decorative Images
  17. Slavery
  18. HTML Minifier Next: Exempt CSS, JS, and SVG From Minification, Collapse No-Break Spaces and Empty Attributes, Higher Correctness
  19. Websites Are Not Going to Die
  20. We Need to Protect Muslims
  21. On the Twisted Logic of Labeling Criticism of Israel as “Anti-Semitism”
  22. The AWAGAM Request Blocker, Now Available on Android
  23. How to Provide a “Random Post” Feature With Eleventy and PHP
  24. I’m Giving Up on Outreach to Parties and Governments
  25. Releasing Middleman Alerter, a Chromium Extension to Warn About Third-Party Reverse Proxies
  26. On the Engineering Philosophy for HTML Minifier Next
  27. Beware the “First”
  28. Every Place That Sells Food Should Offer a Vegan Option
  29. On the Two Sides and the Spectrum That Is Open Source Maintenance
  30. On Respect and Gratitude in Open Source
  31. HTML Minifier Next 7 Is ESM-Only
  32. 2026: 2 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML
  33. Anti-Pro-Palestine as Pro-Islamophobia, Pro-Racism, Pro-Genocide
  34. Stop Linking Terrorism With Religion
  35. Releasing Feed Ghost, a Dual-Purpose Web Tool to Access and Subscribe to Feeds via the Internet Archive
  36. HTML Minifier Next: Unused-CSS Removal, Improved Web Demo, and Greater Versatility, Security, and Performance
  37. Israel, the United States, and Their European Clients vs. the European People
  38. The Trolley Problem but Difficult?
  39. AWAGAM: Easier Importing and Sharing of Blocklists With Bundles
  40. Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXIX
  41. Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXVIII
  42. AI-Assisted Development Means Test-First Development
  43. latest optimization tool
  44. How to Kill Fascism
  45. Found a mistake? I donate! Please email info@meiert.com.
  46. HTML Minifier Next: JSON Schema, Cache Statistics, Default Config File
  47. Ethics in Tech Publishing: On Human Rights and the Middle East
  48. Syntax Highlighting: No Extra HTML for Code Blocks via Custom Highlight API and syntaxp
  49. 5 Useful npx Helpers
  50. 14 Tips for Working and Developing With AI
  51. Western Hypocrisy Is Western Supremacism
  52. Sanctions Against Israel and the US—and an International Military Mission to End Israeli Colonization and Warmongering
  53. Maybe the “Webmaster” Isn’t Dead After All
  54. Most popular
  55. latest tech book

2025 2

  1. On Web Development
  2. latest non-tech book

2024 2

  1. Rote Learning HTML & CSS
  2. the Upgrade Your HTML series