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  HTML Minifier Next: Extended Benchmarks, Self-Close Foreign Elements, Fewer Redundant Attributes, JSON Minification Opt-In: On the most recent changes to the super-configurable web page minifier. https://meiert.com/blog/html-minifier-next-updates-8/ #tools #webdev #html #performance #optimization #htmlminifier

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  “There is nothing more powerful than shared madness. When the fanatic wins, any genocide becomes civilization. Plunder becomes the free market. Attacks are self-defense. Great Britain did not impose opium: It opened markets. The United States did not invade: It liberated. Israel does not massacre children: It defends itself. Narrative is not merely an embellishment of power; it is one of its most effective weapons, because it convinces even its own victims.” Jorge Mafjud, “We Are on a Path to a...

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  Imagine your people were under sanctions for 50 years, because you took back control of your government after it had been turned over by a foreign adversary. Then those who led that prior coup and who put sanctions on you, the ones against you stood up, say they will “liberate” you. And when that fails, they say they will annihilate you, possibly using nuclear weapons. (How authentic that desire for liberation, no?) What the West keeps doing to Iran is criminal. Even if Iran wasn’t one of th...

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  Cancel culture in the West: Apparently, in Norway (!) there’s a campaign running against Glenn Diesen. If you don’t know Glenn Diesen, I believe you’re missing out and should subscribe to his YouTube channel right away—you barely find more level-headed political reporting than with him: https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1 But in Norway, they mark him as “controversial” and “pro-Russian” and—cancel him: https://braveneweurope.com/geopolitics/glenn-diesen-the-ongoing-cancellation-campaign-again...

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  We Need to Protect Muslims: The West has developed a self-fueling story about Muslims that is used to wage a non-scrutinized forever war on Islam. Both the story and the war need to stop. https://meiert.com/blog/protect-muslims/ #politics #islam #islamophobia #racism #west

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  Automatic Internal Linking in WordPress, a Plugin: ntrnllnk: To automatically improve internal links on your WordPress site, consider ntrnllnk to manage in-content links and related posts. https://meiert.com/blog/ntrnllnk-wordpress-linking/ #tools #wordpress #linking #links #seo

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  From the archives: HTML Concepts: Focusable Areas: https://meiert.com/blog/html-focusable-areas/ #html

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  Pedro Sánchez’ speech at the United Nations (16 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpIuu1_8WxY Of course, there are people who mistrust and dislike him (yet for every human you find a hater), but I very much appreciate Sánchez—and I much more hope that Spaniards appreciate him, or keep appreciating him. He seems to be one of few leaders the world has right now who speaks out and acts against some of the greatest injustices. #spain #unitednations #law

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  Stop. This is such an increasingly unpleasant and disruptive anti-pattern. #web #ux

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  On Israel’s colonization of Syria: https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/israeli-settler-groups-infiltrate-syria-to-grab-land-for-jewish-outpost When does this stop. #israel #syria #colonization

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  The ICC, Israel, and the US: “[…] there was no evidence to suggest any kind of misconduct by Khan, sexual or otherwise.” “[…] we need an answer to an equally political, and far more troubling, question. ‘Cui bono?’ Or ‘Who benefits?’” “Shortly before Khan made that announcement, 12 senior US Senators had sent a threatening letter to the ICC: ‘Target Israel and we will target you.’ The letter ended: ‘You have been warned.’” The entire story is unbelievable. https://braveneweurope.com/geopoli...

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  Imagine back in, say, 1942, the international community had asked Jews to “disarm” and the US or Russia had proposed partnering with the Germans for business development of concentration camps—something Israel and the US-led “Board of Peace” are doing to Palestinians. Imagine, too, that the Nazis had spun the Holocaust so that any Nazi criticism was anti-German and had to be prosecuted around the world—as with the Israeli pressuring of foreign politicians, their lobbying groups (like AIPAC), an...

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  Releasing Feed Ghost, a Dual-Purpose Web Tool to Access and Subscribe to Feeds via the Internet Archive: Are there RSS/Atom feeds of sources you mistrust but need to check or follow? https://meiert.com/blog/feed-ghost/ #tools #feeds #syndication #rss #atom #privacy

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  “Now that the genocide has run its course and the Strip has been destroyed almost completely, Israel is advancing confidently toward the next phase of the plan: making the entire population of Gaza permanently disabled, injured, sick, hungry, homeless and unemployed.” And still, people keep watching, as if this couldn’t be us, in the Strip. https://braveneweurope.com/gideon-levy-israels-solution-to-the-gaza-problem-is-well-underway #israel #palestine

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  “The Resistance Movement against Zionist Nazi genocide is spreading across Europe”: https://blisty.cz/art/132419-elbit-systems-critical-czech-site-burned-down-by-underground-group.html #israel #zionism #genocide

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  #FollowFriday! I think you’ll enjoy: * @akmur * @Digital_Coolie * @reiayanami * @saneef * @riverbirchtree * @GRA3432 * @me

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  When will the @EUCommission and the EU pressure Israel and the US to stop the war on Iran? When will the EU then also, finally pressure Israel to retreat from Lebanon, Syria, and occupied Palestine? When will the EU cancel the EU–Israel association agreement and, to mitigate direct and indirect threats, start sanctioning and banning certain US products and tech? That is, when will the EU stand up for human rights and international law—because what we see isn’t it? #eu #israel #usa #iran

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  In another world, an intl military mission just completed disarmament of Israel, reestablishing 1967 borders, with ICC trials starting against Netanyahu and other officials, and a UN mission securing peace along Israel’s borders. The US Senate removed Trump from office, after which trials led to a conviction in a number of criminal and civil cases. He is ultimately sentenced to life in prison. Several other US officials are likewise removed and put on trial. #usa #israel #alternatives #utopia

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  Do you know what the Nakba is? (Just an—anonymous—question, though I’m particularly curious about fellow Germans answering this—personally, I learned about the Nakba only late, for neither in school nor in German media. If you didn’t know about it, please look it up.) #nakba

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  Like the Gaza part of occupied Palestine, you can tell how Israel is only targeting terrorists in Lebanon: * Most people killed are civilians * Destruction of civil and critical infrastructure * Invasion of territory These are “counter-terrorism operations” only for those who don’t want to see. Israel will not stop in Palestine, Lebanon, or Iran—so when are *we* stopping this crusade? #israel #lebanon #palestine #iran

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  Do you use and pay companies on the BDS boycott priority list? * Airbnb * Amazon * AXA * Booking.com * Burger King * Caltex * Carrefour * Chevron * Coca-Cola * Dell * Disney * Expedia Group * Google * HP * Intel * McDonald’s * Palantir * Papa John’s * Pizza Hut * Remax * Siemens * SodaStream * Spotify * Teva * Texaco * Wix * ZARA https://www.is-boycott.com/en/lists/bds #bds #israel #palestine #boycott

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  From the archives: The Reverse Asshole Rule of Social Media: https://meiert.com/blog/reverse-asshole-rule/ #socialmedia #twitter

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  There Is No “Wrong” in CSS: CSS isn’t about universal “rights” or “wrongs”—a look at why standards aren’t dogmas, and why developer intent and platform responsibility may matter more than age of technique. https://meiert.com/blog/wrong-css/ #webdev #css

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  Only one more week until CSS Naked Day 2026 (April 9)! 👹 https://css-naked-day.org/ #css #cssnakedday #webstandards

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  CSS: Only one week left until this year’s CSS Naked Day (April 9)! https://css-naked-day.org/ #css #cssnakedday

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  There is much to learn about the Middle East, but once you dive into the history, you see the patterns. Yet people who don’t inform themselves are a massive challenge: A family member of mine (German) was seriously suggesting Iran should be destroyed (!) as it was about to destroy Israel, a statement that makes you wonder where it’s coming from—and is clear whom it serves. But it’s three things the public in the west are dealing with: ignorance, hasbara, and—racism. #middleeast #israel #iran

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  “Palestinians owe us nothing, we owe Palestine an infinite unpayable debt that continues to rack up every single moment of every single day.” https://agelender.substack.com/p/yes-all-jews #israel #palestine

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  “Conflict”: On not playing the “modern language game,” but calling things what they are. https://meiert.com/blog/conflict/ #politics #genocide #language

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  “Some people believe that if code is written well, it is so obvious that no comments are needed. This is a delicious myth, like a rumor that ice cream is good for your health: we’d really like to believe it! Unfortunately, it’s simply not true.” Itself a delicious quote from John K. Ousterhout, taken from “A Philosophy of Software Design”! (One of my favorite engineering books, if you’re interested:) https://meiert.com/blog/3-books-to-become-a-better-developer/ #programming #softwaredesign #...

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  Releasing Searcher, a Configurable, Privacy-Minded Chromium Extension to Trigger Random Searches: A mini-tool to make it costlier to invade your privacy. https://meiert.com/blog/searcher/ #tools #misc #browserextensions #chromium #search #privacy