@meiert.com
Engineering lead, anti-extractivist, indie publisher—e.g., @frontenddogma.com, @webglossary.info, https://theothermanifesto.org/. More: https://mas.to/@j9t, https://meiert.com/.
@meiert.comReposted by @meiert.comCSS Optimization: Is Using Declarations Just Once (UDJO) Still Effective Today?: On the merit of making use of an old CSS maintainability and performance optimization technique.
@meiert.comhihtml—the combined HTML validator, link checker, and minifier—received some quality-of-life and performance updates.
Get a first taste in your terminal (in a folder containing HTML; no changes made):
`npx hihtml`
@meiert.comTwo Keys for Developing With AI:
A brief note on the importance of tests (effectiveness) and benchmarks (efficiency).
@frontenddogma.comReposted by @meiert.comAn Open Letter to the People Writing Lengthy Posts About “Why I’m Going Back to Twitter”, by @[email protected]:
https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-10-12-open-letter/?ref=frontenddogma.com
@meiert.comNeed data for a web dev topic?
The “metrics” tag on Frontend Dogma is there to indicate data:
frontenddogma.com/topics/metri...
You can combine it with the topics under scrutiny, e.g. frontenddogma.com/topics/filte....
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@meiert.comCSS Optimization: Is Using Declarations Just Once (UDJO) Still Effective Today?: On the merit of making use of an old CSS maintainability and performance optimization technique.
@meiert.comOh performance, the good old days:
* Average total HTML size (including internal frame HTML): 25K
* Average total external script size: 11.2K
* Average total external style size: 17K
2006. (To be fair, the same trend.)
@meiert.comReposted by @meiert.com2026: 2 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML: Among websites, being part of the 1% is a good thing—the latest findings from the annual study about the most important and simultaneously most difficult language in the world.
@frontenddogma.comReposted by @meiert.comA Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics, by (not found or attributed):
@meiert.comReposted by @meiert.comWe Need to Protect Muslims: The West has developed a self-fueling story about Muslims that is used to wage a non-scrutinized forever war on Islam. Both the story and the war need to stop.
@meiert.comA Short Theory of the Political Spectrum: On who votes left, right, and center—and what it means to vote either left or right.
@meiert.com@meiert.comModern day cowardice:
Soldiers killing people who carry no weapon, media reporting what’s safe and convenient as opposed to what’s true and important, and people largely staying quiet—are we living at a time of peak cowardice?
@meiert.com“Israeli campaign to erase Gaza towns exposed by satellite images”:
@meiert.comFrom the archives:
A Word on Contemporary Web Design:
While the situation is better now, I’m not sure we’ve left the valley of shunning information density.
@meiert.comFYI and cheers @nicolas-steenhout.com!
@meiert.comOn the Decision Underlying Decorative Images: What would change the judgment people have to make about images?
@meiert.comThe End-User Manifesto (~2006):
web.archive.org/web/20070103...
(One of a few manifestos of the wider field: frontenddogma.com/topics/manif...)
@meiert.comI also discuss “The CSS Reset Contradiction” in a video:
@frontenddogma.comReposted by @meiert.comState of HTML 2026, by @devographics.com:
https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-html/2026?ref=frontenddogma.com
