j9t

j9t, 10 hours ago to webdev

All titles of the “Upgrade Your #HTML” ebook series are now available at a lower price! 🔻

(The previous price had essentially been dictated by one of the books’ platforms, which is now being worked around by donating the difference.)

If you purchased the latest title and find the new price fairer, reach out so that I can offer you another book, free of charge!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4SD84B2/

j9t, 3 days ago to random

On frontenddogma.com, I had a “soft block” in place that I used not to attribute people I mistrust.

I’ve dropped that block.

It’s not that the mistrust went away, but I don’t feel like I need to “retaliate.” I much rather like to acknowledge that I could err in my judgment. I also believe that nothing improves if we all think “eye for an eye.”

To keep it short, the spirit matches what I wrote in “Reasons to Listen to Whom You Don’t Agree With”:

https://meiert.com/en/blog/listen/

#cancelculture #trust

j9t, 4 days ago to tech

The Great Tech and People Hypocrisy:

When we value people so much that we “rif” them even with cash in the bank, maybe we don’t value them as much as we say we do. On a two-faced industry that needs firing standards as much as it needs hiring standards.

https://meiert.com/en/blog/tech-and-people/

#tech #people #standards

j9t, 5 days ago to CSS

From the archives:

The CSS Art Paradox:

https://meiert.com/en/blog/the-css-art-paradox/

#css #cssart #craft #paradox

j9t, 10 days ago to webdev

It’s out: “Upgrade Your HTML V” is available now! 👏

Thanks and kudos @5t3ph (foreword and review), Simon Pieters (reviews), and Martha Martins (editing) for their help making this a worthy new part of the HTML craft and minimalism ebook series!

HTML forever ✌️

https://meiert.com/en/blog/upgrade-your-html-5/

#html #craft #minimalism

j9t, 11 days ago to webdev

It’s very close… but you can preorder “Upgrade Your HTML V” on Kobo and Google Play Books!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/upgrade-your-html-v × https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Jens_Oliver_Meiert_Upgrade_Your_HTML_V?id=sywGEQAAQBAJ

#html #craft #minimalism

j9t, 12 days ago to Kurzgesagt

The Web Development Glossary books and website just received a facelift and additional content!

If you purchased the book and don’t get updates automatically, the new version (1.1.118) should be worth a manual re-download. For website users, the site just caught up with the book again:

https://webglossary.info

#webdevglossary #learning #concepts #terminology

j9t, 13 days ago to til

Today I learned that when you move countries, you cannot access any videos you purchased through Amazon anymore. It’s like you were expropriated.

It seems my dilemma is this: I have 1,500 Kindle ebooks in the USA region, and a few dozen Prime videos in the Germany region. To keep my books, I’ll need to keep my USA region (which always worked). To get access to my videos, I’d need to switch to Germany, even though I live in—Spain.

Sure, just keep the library, but what a mess.

#til #amazon

j9t, 14 days ago to random

Waste resources and pollute the environment to produce a substitute for something that is good for the environment? That is the environment?

Mankind: Why don’t you buy this plastic plant.

j9t, 16 days ago to Worldbuidling

Critical Feedback: Four Approaches and One Twist:

Feedback is important so that we can learn and improve. Critical feedback is important to expose, validate, and address areas of growth and development. I believe that fundamentally, there are four approaches to critical feedback.

https://meiert.com/en/blog/critical-feedback/

#feedback #culture

j9t, 19 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random

You have left a position because of your manager:

#career

j9t, 24 days ago to web

When I launched @frontenddogma, I deliberately limited article coverage to 2020 and later.

I’ve just started to feature material from the 90s as well. Please tell me how you like it—and if you have useful (and reliably dated) references to add!

https://frontenddogma.com/topics/1990s/

#web #webdev #history

j9t, 25 days ago to accessibility

From the archives:

Accessibility Heuristics:

https://meiert.com/en/blog/accessibility-heuristics/

#accessibility

j9t, 26 days ago to webdev

When you search for web design and development glossaries you find a huge amount of pages covering, say, 10 (!) to 100 terms: https://www.google.com/search?q=web+development+glossary

Continuously working on a glossary book and site, I don’t feel like the 3,800+ terms currently covered are even close.

Try the site and I’m sure you still find something that’s missing (please tell me!):

https://webglossary.info/

#webdev #terminology #webdevglossary

j9t, 27 days ago to javascript

April 24 Is JS Naked Day:

Every year on April 9 we, a part of our field, do without CSS; from this year on, on April 24, there’s an opportunity to temporarily swear off JavaScript.

https://meiert.com/en/blog/april-24-is-js-naked-day/

#javascript #jsnakedday #separationofconcerns

j9t, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to random

My partner is from the Canary Islands and I can attest that the way tourism is done there, it is a problem.

Although no one will like to hear that, tourism should probably generally be considered luxury and be limited in ways that allow people to travel, yes, but not harm locals or nature.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/thousands-protest-canary-islands-unsustainable-tourism

#tourism #canaries #canariastieneunlimite

j9t, 1 month ago to CSS

Fonts in CSS: Reviewing an upcoming O’Reilly book, I ran again into the idea that font family names were case-sensitive.

I recall that the spec (at some point?) said so, but in practice, user agents have always—and I think without exception—treated font names case-insensitively.

What fuels this myth (at least from a support perspective)? My hunch is that it may not be many who say so, but those are popular?

#css #fonts

kosmar, 1 month ago to random German

https://quorablog.quora.com/Multi-bot-chat-on-Poe

der nächste Schritt ist getan, danach redet die KI nur mehr untereinander.

j9t, 1 month ago to webdev

In anticipation and celebration of the upcoming release of “Upgrade Your HTML V” (including a foreword by @5t3ph!)…

…I made the source of the first “Upgrade Your HTML” book publicly accessible 📖

https://github.com/frontenddogma/upgrade-your-html

#html #craft #minimalism

j9t, 1 month ago to CSS

Today I learned about the table column combinator ||: https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-4/#the-column-combinator

—and also that it’s (still?) at risk: https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-4/#:~:text=The%20following%20features%20are%20at%2Drisk

#css #til

collinsworth, 1 month ago to random

I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.

We should be looking at what tech works when you don't have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale without paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.

There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.