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