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An update on the latest changes on the super-configurable web page minifier.
On an old CSS optimization technique that is non-trivial to automate but for which there’s a new tool.
On indentation, repo architecture, Twitter/X support, llms.txt, email address escaping, GitHub workflows, Dependabot configs, and test triggers.
Extending the TLD, domain, and URL blocker.
European leadership continues to back the violence against Palestinians (and other Muslim people), ignoring the clear and documented opposition of its own citizens.
Are there RSS/Atom feeds of sources you mistrust but need to check or follow?
On the weaponization of political discourse—and the necessity of enforcing values.
The next major version of the super-configurable web page minifier is there.
Open-source bureaucracy shifts the burden of issue reporting from maintainers to users. A look at the maintenance spectrum—and the risks of asking too much.
On zero-sum thinking and why “someone first” rhetoric destroys true leadership.
A mini-tool to make it transparent when another party can potentially access and correlate your online activity.
Try it out: webglossary.info/random.
When defending human rights is framed as prejudice, the public conscience is backed into a corner.
AI search feels like a threat to the open Web, but the future of the Web does not depend on select large players.
Chances are, we’re all enslaved, and accept our lot rather than reimagine how we could all live together on this planet.
What if you only needed one tool to handle all the key HTML optimization tasks?
Producing valid, minimal, and minified HTML aren’t just frontend development best practices—they’re also a token optimization strategy. On HTML optimization coming with new incentives.
The briefest guidance for writing HTML.
Refinements in content, design, CSS, JS, and AI—as always, sourced from project maintenance for the possible benefit of yours.
Can we be, can we raise decent people if we cannot be against wars and genocides, if our governments prosecute being against wars and genocides?
Actionable tips for engineering leaders to foster trust, improve team performance, and manage the intricacies of the EM role.
The word “elite” carries positive connotations that are hard to defend. A brief argument for what a true elite would look like.
On the importance, unknowability, and unignorability of context and intent.
Too often, we see leaders inadvertently and unnecessarily worsen perceived performance gaps, only to then struggle in turning the situation around. On a basic approach to understand and change what’s going on.
CSS isn’t about universal “rights” or “wrongs”—a look at why standards aren’t dogmas, and why developer intent and platform responsibility can matter more than syntax.
A mini-tool to make it costlier to invade your privacy.
On not playing the “modern language game,” but calling things what they are.
An update on recent improvements to the super-configurable web page minifier.
Introducing the latest edition of The Web Development Glossary, featuring updated definitions and nearly 1,000 additional terms. A must for anyone looking to navigate the web ecosystem and fill in gaps they never knew existed.
Have you checked your .htaccess on broken redirects today?
