Updated May 29, 2025
### 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.
#679 · May 29, 2025 · management
### The Magic of the Most Minimal HTML Possible (and Why We Donât Make Use of It)
On challenging XHTMLâHTML and regular redos, by looking at HTMLâHTML, full separation of concerns, and iterations.
#678 · May 27, 2025 · development, html, minimalism, conformance, maintainability
### The Problems With Being an Influencer With Millions of Followers
When you have 99 problemsâand youâre not unhappy that being an influencer isnât one of them.
#677 · May 25, 2025 · misc, philosophy
### 10 Things I Learned Applying to 200 Positions in 1 Year
One of many stories about a tech market undergoing transformation. (If youâre out there on the market, donât lose sight of your strengths. You are awesome.)
#676 · May 22, 2025 · misc
### 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. Letâs review whatâs going on.
#675 · May 14, 2025 · development, html, conformance
### Website Optimization Measures, Part XXXI
Qodana! html-minifier-terser! Privacy! Git! Automation! Eleventy! GitHub Actions! Cron jobs! Migrations! Maintenance has no limits.
#674 · May 8, 2025 · development, optimization
### Ethics in Tech: On an Issue Particularly Sensitive to Germans
When itâs about learning from your countryâs crimes.
#673 · May 6, 2025 · misc
### Web Development Has a Short-Term Memory
Our field generally likes DRY code, but that doesnât apply to what weâre writing about.
#672 · May 1, 2025 · development
### Jens Oliver Meiert: How WebStorm and AI Assistant Fit Right Into My Workflow
#671 · Apr 29, 2025 · interviews, development
### Connection to the Environment
On that feeling of being one with everyone and everything that weâre all experiencing.
#670 · Apr 26, 2025 · misc
### 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.
#669 · Apr 22, 2025 · development
### How I Run Eleventy (Itâs Complicated?)
Aliases, debug mode, non-versioned builds as part of a centralized, versioned site exports repoâand the thinking behind it all.
#668 · Apr 18, 2025 · development
### 5 Ways to Reduce HTML File Size on Your Website, Step 0
The journey begins with an unpopular step.
#667 · Apr 16, 2025 · development, html, performance, minimalism, optimization
### Empathy
Lack of empathy is not a sign of strength, but a liability for all of us.
#666 · Apr 6, 2025 · misc
### New Book: Tara (A Utopia)
A human-inspired, AI-generated, human-edited story about refusing to live in a dystopiaâand transforming the world instead.
#665 · Apr 3, 2025 · books, misc
### Micro-Scrum
Decide on one thing to ship, then ship (or learn).
#664 · Apr 1, 2025 · management
### Markup Languages
Just something to remember HDML, DHTML, WML, and cHTML.
#663 · Mar 28, 2025 · development
### Where to Put a Mouse or Trackpad
On a setup that is standard on notebooks but that seems unpopular on desktops.
#662 · Mar 23, 2025 · misc
### Where Frontend Dogma Gets Its News From
On sources for news and views that approach 4,000 items per year.
#661 · Mar 20, 2025 · development
### Utilization
Why donât we talk more about queueing theory.
#660 · Mar 18, 2025 · management
### Prisonerâs Dilemma
On âtit for tatâ with about 10% more forgiveness.
#659 · Mar 16, 2025 · philosophy, misc
### Forwarding Appreciated: A WhatsApp \[and Signal and LinkedIn\] Link Sharing Bug That Cannot Be Reported
Thereâs an issue with WhatsApp link sharing that cannot be brought to WhatsAppâs attention. If you know someone at WhatsApp, please help (support appreciated with Signal and LinkedIn, too).
#658 · Mar 12, 2025 · development
### A Moratorium on Men Making Major Decisions
On the many news youâve read today about a woman or a non-binary person invading another country, driving into a crowd, firing workers to maximize profits, raising taxes for low-income people, denying help, cutting benefits, beating someone up, setting a homeless person on fire, raping someone, making the life of a minority hell, endorsing or escalating a genocide, slashing education funding, or doing other WTF.
#657 · Mar 9, 2025 · misc
### DeepSeek and HTML
âWhat is the most minimal valid HTML document?â, DeepSeek-R1 edition.
#656 · Mar 7, 2025 · development, html, minimalism, conformance
### On Ethics in Web Development (With a Brief Overview of Ethical Theories)
When we read and talk about ethics in technology, itâs rare that weâre explicit about the school(s) of thought weâre following. Surprisingly, this lack of clarity often worksâbut itâs relevant, interesting, and useful to be more clear about our ethical theories.
#655 · Mar 6, 2025 · development, philosophy
### Website Optimization Measures, Part XXX
Everybody â„ïž website maintenance. On trimming input, updating WordPress ping services, cleaning up Eleventy architecture, reorganizing redirects, synchronizing server log configs, replacing dependencies by native Node functionality, adding minimal dark mode (HTML edition), and unfancying error pages.
#654 · Mar 3, 2025 · development, optimization
### New to Web Development? Run Your Own Website
On the perhaps shortest advice for anyone entering the field (which is also sound for everyone in it).
#653 · Feb 27, 2025 · development
### On Deciding Who We Are
When a country cannot agree to âadvancing a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace in Ukraineâ (or other countries).
#652 · Feb 25, 2025 · philosophy, misc
### Order Force in HTML?
Do you, too, find certain ways of ordering attributes to be more natural than others?
#651 · Feb 19, 2025 · development, html
### Testing 10 JavaScript Frameworks on Their HTML Defaults
When you validate the demo and starter projects of popular frameworks like React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Astro, &c., what do you find? On challenging the idea that JavaScript frameworks could fuel the HTML crisis.
#650 · Feb 12, 2025 · development, javascript, frameworks, html, conformance
### On Making Sure Everyone Is Taken Care Of
For our own sake.
#649 · Feb 9, 2025 · philosophy, misc
### DORA, SPACE, DevEx, DX Core 4
Key metrics of and casual thoughts on four engineering productivity frameworks.
#648 · Feb 5, 2025 · management
### The Donkey and the Rabbit
A rabbit goes for her daily run. This day, she decides to try a new route. At an intersection she meets a donkey. When the donkey is about to eat a nailâ
#647 · Feb 2, 2025 · philosophy, misc
### On Building AI Understanding and Automation Muscle (With 18 Random Problems Solved With AI)
If youâre like me, youâre also optimizing your use of AI in development, distinguishing your capabilities from AI, and improving your routine to build strong automation muscle. Thoughts and examples.
#646 · Jan 29, 2025 · development
### Private Property
A quote, from Daniel Loick, that isnât new, that isnât all.
#645 · Jan 26, 2025 · philosophy, misc
### Google 2025
There are some things I find weird and disappointing about the Google of today.
#644 · Jan 24, 2025 · misc
### Cool URLs Donât Change, UnlessâŠ
A deferential (though not new) refinement of Tim Berners-Leeâs 1998 classic.
#643 · Jan 23, 2025 · development
### Website Optimization Measures, Part XXIX
From cleaning up behind files and feature policies and Eleventy plugins to fun with CSS selectors and transitions to improving tables of contents to switching to ESM to testing bfcache to refactoring lists to tables.
#642 · Jan 21, 2025 · development, optimization
### My 18-Months Rule for Open-Source Contributions
You make a good-faith contribution to an open-source project. Thereâs never a response. What do you do? On a rule Iâve established for my own open-source work, and the reasons behind it.
#641 · Jan 16, 2025 · development
### An Overview of the 50 Highest-Ranking Web Design and Development Glossaries
If you want to look up terms, there are dozens if not hundreds of tech glossaries. However, a search quickly shows differences in how comprehensive and therefore useful these glossaries areâand doesnât show whether the glossaries are being updated. A view at the glossary landscape.
#640 · Jan 7, 2025 · development, design
### 2024
Professional and personal highlights from the past year. Happy 2025!
#639 · Jan 1, 2025 · misc
### CSS: How to Indicate Container Overflow, When There Is Overflow
You have a block of text that you canât shorten and yet that you donât want to give too much space, so as not to draw attention away from other content. Itâs useful metadata that you like to show. On a stopgap option using scroll-driven animations.
#638 · Dec 28, 2024 · development, css, design
### The CSS Reset Contradiction
Re-publishing my article for SitePoint, discussing what I think we miss in our conversations: Notably, what are the premises for CSS resets? Whatâs the realityâor are the realities? And, how could we also approach resets?
#637 · Dec 19, 2024 · development, css
### HTML Conformance: A Comparison of 6.5 npm Validator Packages (With 1.5 Recommendations)
What do you do if you want to make sure youâre not writing and shipping fantasy HTML, but choose to or have to avoid the web-based W3C HTML validator?
#636 · Dec 17, 2024 · development, html, conformance
### When We Need Systems, Processes, and Conventions
Oh the bore.
#635 · Dec 11, 2024 · development, management
### Genocide Dilemma
On what it means that weâre still committing and accepting genocides.
#634 · Dec 5, 2024 · misc
### What Is HTML Optimization? What Is It Not?
Is HTML optimization as well-defined as we need it to be? A look at whatâs out there and an attempt to be clearer.
#633 · Dec 5, 2024 · development, html, quality, optimization
### How to Add WebGlossary.info as a Search Engine in Your Browser
In short, you can search the glossary via âhttps://webglossary.info/search/%sâ.
#632 · Dec 3, 2024 · development
### Website Optimization Measures, Part XXVIII
What is it this time? Medium links, font smoothing, Eleventy templates, Bluesky handles and support, post automation, front matter quotes, and Twitter/X links. In this order.
#631 · Nov 29, 2024 · development, optimization
### The Image Compression Challenge Results
How many projects cannot losslessly be compressed further, how much would I donate for the challenge I invited to?
#630 · Nov 27, 2024 · development