A Web Development Term a Day…

Published on Aug 19, 2024, filed under development. (Share this post, e.g., on Mastodon.)

…keeps ignorance away, goes an old saying in our field 🙃

Since last year, The Web Development Glossary (with its 3,700+ terms) is not only an irregularly updated ebook, but also a website (WebGlossary.info).

You can now also use the glossary’s information to learn about a new term every day. You can do this by feed (which is there for automation purposes), but I recommend one of the following social media platforms:

(The Twitter/X integration is tentative, but, ~~it’s there~~ it was there.)

If you have any feedback, please email me or share it in the Web Development Glossary forum. Thank you—and happy learning new tech terms!

About Me

I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m an engineering lead, guerrilla philosopher, and indie publisher. I’ve worked as a technical lead and engineering manager at various companies (e.g., Google); I’m an active web and tool developer (code optimization, digital defense), a contributor to web standards (like HTML, CSS, WCAG), and a book author (O’Reilly, Frontend Dogma).

I love trying things—in web development and engineering management, but also in politics and philosophy, where I hold to one idea in particular: that we can only be well if we take good care of everyone. Here on meiert.com I talk about some of my perspectives and experiences. (Interpret charitably but be critical—and share feedback and advice that makes my work better.)