meiert.com Survey Results
Published on October 13, 2008 (⻠August 6, 2023), filed under Everything Else (RSS feed for all categories).
This post is partially outdated.
Itâs one and a half months since I asked for your feedback about meiert.com, and Iâve finally decided to publish some of the results. I also wanted to specifically reply to some comments and suggestions. And I wanted to thank everyone who participated!
The survey will still stay up and running until the end of time. I figured that it doesnât do harm to keep it live, so feel free to share your thoughts now or later, too, if you havenât already.
Questions
As of today, the Likert scale questions revealed a great standing of this site, one that Iâm quite happy about, and one that makes me work hard to maintain and improve.
- When it comes to quality of content, 97.92% chose âgoodâ or âexcellent,â scoring a pleasing 4.562 on a 1-5 scale.
- The design of this site has been rated âgoodâ or âexcellentâ by 71.88% (3.896), the most important question for me being if the design works though.
- 79.79% of all participants rated posting frequency âaverageâ or âgood,â and 13.83% even thought itâs âexcellentâ (3.809).
- Technical quality has been considered âgoodâ or âexcellentâ by 97.92% (4.552).
- Overall, 94.79% rated meiert.com âgoodâ and âexcellentâ (4.354).
Comments and Suggestions
There have been many great comments. Still Iâm only publishing four of them which receive three replies:
weblog { font-family: ugly; }
The most vocal comment concerning this siteâs font choice. I suspect this to be related to display problems with Cambria as the primary font, or different fallbacks on Linux distributions, respectively, however I ask for more details if there are issues, and otherwise patience since I regularly test and adjust.
Sometimes your statements seem a bit arrogant, because youâre very confident about them. I know youâre really a great expert, but from time to time it would be good to say that itâs your well-grounded opinion, so it doesnât look like the only ultimate solution.
Sometimes, the author seems a little
[âŠ]fundamentalist and pedant on some of his articles, specially when he talks against CSS frameworks, or resets, in an extreme position (âthis is bad, this is harmfulâ), and sometime it looks like his ego is deeply involved.
While I try to stress that opinions can be dangerous and to go for arguments most of the time, I understand that my communication style can be a little âstrict.â I hope that recent posts introduced a different style, however Iâll aim for a more moderate tone that provides additional arguments. (I enjoy being strict though, and some things donât benefit from sugar-coating.)
Itâs good to see that there are some people willing to weather the endless storm of web-gimmickry
[âŠ].
I considered quoting other compliments, but I like this comment most as I think it reflects a good observation. Our industry and our profession are in constant motion and face a lot of innovationâbut quite some of it is no real innovation, and not all of it matters. Iâm glad that my readersâyouârecognize that Iâm not a party pooper but genuinely concerned, and that I do share experience just as much as I encourage other people to share theirs.
Thank you all.
About Me
Iâm Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and Iâm a frontend engineering leader and tech author/publisher. Iâve worked as a technical lead for companies like Google and as an engineering manager for companies like Miro, Iâm somewhat close to W3C and WHATWG, and I write and review books for OâReilly and Frontend Dogma.
I love trying things, not only in web development (and engineering management), but also in other areas like philosophy. Here on meiert.com I share some of my views and experiences.
If youâd like to do me a favor, interpret charitably (I speak three languages, and they do collide), yet be critical and give feedback, so that I can make improvements. Thank you!
Comments (Closed)
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On October 13, 2008, 19:31 CEST, Louis said:
I partially agree with what has been said on your âarrogantâ tone: while your posts are the work of someone that deeply knows what heâs talking about, it would be more interesting to put the reflexion into the form of an open discussion.
I think that being elitist is important in order to get excelence, but even a master can discover other viewpoints while discuting a point with other people.
Very impressive results by the way!
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On October 13, 2008, 20:13 CEST, Duluoz said:
I think you have every right to be quite proud of this site.
I also like your tone and confidence when replying to comments. You are more than respectful and quite direct and to the point, which I find refreshing in the PC world being shoved down our throats. Itâs not mean to disagree. Feel feel to disagree with me. đ
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