Jens Oliver Meiert
Jens Oliver Meiert — Engineering lead and indie publisher
Intersection of frontend development craft, engineering leadership, and philosophical inquiry.
meiert.comIt's the beautiful Web because it's driven by passion.
A long-running blog at the intersection of frontend craft and philosophy. Jens writes about HTML optimization, CSS maintainability, and web standards with the precision of someone who's been doing it for decades — but he also weaves in broader questions about responsibility and what it means to build for the web. His posts range from practical tooling guides to reflections on the state of the open web.
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