Jens Oliver Meiert articles - 24 total
The HTML History and Optimization Cheat Sheet
If you’re interested in HTML history and optimization, then this may be useful to you: Figure: The...
Learn HTML and CSS, the Hard Way (Free Ebook)
If you’re a frontend developer, you’re working with HTML and CSS. And yet, you may not… …have all...
We Need to Talk More About Conformance, If We Want to Stop Fantasy HTML
Conformant and valid HTML is the exception when it comes to HTML used on websites and in apps. This...
14 Tips for Becoming an Indie Author
You’re thinking about writing and publishing a book by yourself? And, you’re wondering about the...
On the Uniting Power of a Commitment to HTML Conformance
HTML is the language of the Web. No matter what other languages are being used, in the end it all...
200 Web-Based, Must-Try Web Design and Development Tools
Let’s get right into it: Here are not 10, not 50, not 100, but—200 web-based and free tools that make...
26 Additional Web Development Terms You May Not Have Heard Of
If you like this, check out WebGlossary.info! The website and its “term of the day” series on...
Challenge Yourself, Even When It’s Art
Art is great, when craft triggers emotion and our sense for aesthetics is stimulated to connect with...
Redo Websites Less Often (to Become a Better Developer)
A typical conversation with a motivated frontend developer running their own website can easily yield...
Minimal Social Markup
Every website and app these days needs so-called “social markup,” metadata for a richer and prettier...
On the Difficulty of Counting the Number of HTML Elements
How many HTML elements are there? What looks like a fairly simple question, isn’t one: Are you...
25 Additional Web Development Terms You May Not Have Heard Of
If you like this, check out WebGlossary.info! The website and its “term of the day” series on...
Reduce the Pressure on Young and Inexperienced Developers
There’s a sad running gag in our industry: “Looking for junior developer with five years of...
Making the Web Developer’s Pilgrimage
Have you read the HTML specification? Have you marked highlights, taken notes, and reviewed what you...
The 3-Second Frontend Developer Test
If you had to hire a frontend developer and had just one question, what would you ask? I recommend...
Thoughts for the Aging Web Developer
If you’re not old, you’ll get old. You know that—nothing new. But if you’re a web developer, and also...
Engineering Management 12
For a large part of my career, I was an individual contributor. That involved project and working gro...
33 Additional Web Development Terms You May Not Have Heard Of
If you like this, check out WebGlossary.info! The website and its “term of the day” series on...
5 Tips for Your Next Promotion or Salary Raise
How do you approach your promotions and salary raises? Are these tied to an annual meeting with your...
In Critical Defense of Frontend Development
Frontend development is a field that’s not unfamiliar with being misunderstood, and its value being...
HTML Document, b. 2020, Looking for HTML Minimalist and Craftsperson
HTML needs more attention. We know that. You know that. What’s there to help with that? I wanted...
33 Web Development Terms You May Not Have Heard Of
If you like this, check out WebGlossary.info! The website and its “term of the day” series on...
5 Tips to Get Your Dev Blog Running
At sum.cumo, the company I worked for before joining Jimdo, I had in 2018 and 2019 built and grown th...
The Web Development Glossary, My New Book Covering About 2,000 Key Terms for Developers
If you want to learn or master Web Development, perhaps you’ll enjoy the most comprehensive glossary...