meiert.com Survey Results

Published on October 13, 2008 (↻ August 6, 2023), filed under (RSS feed for all categories).

This post is partially outdated.

It’s one and a half months since I asked for your feedback about meiert.com, and I’ve 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 doesn’t do harm to keep it live, so feel free to share your thoughts now or later, too, if you haven’t already.

Questions

As of today, the Likert scale questions revealed a great standing of this site, one that I’m quite happy about, and one that makes me work hard to maintain and improve.

Comments and Suggestions

There have been many great comments. Still I’m only publishing four of them which receive three replies:

weblog {
  font-family: ugly;
}

The most vocal comment concerning this site’s 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 you’re very confident about them. I know you’re really a great expert, but from time to time it would be good to say that it’s your well-grounded opinion, so it doesn’t look like the only ultimate solution.

Sometimes, the author seems a little [
] fundamentalist and pedant on some of his articles, specially when he talks against CSS frameworks, or resets, in an extreme position (“this is bad, this is harmful”), 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 “strict.” I hope that recent posts introduced a different style, however I’ll aim for a more moderate tone that provides additional arguments. (I enjoy being strict though, and some things don’t benefit from sugar-coating.)

It’s good to see that there are some people willing to weather the endless storm of web-gimmickry [
].

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 innovation—but quite some of it is no real innovation, and not all of it matters. I’m glad that my readers—you—recognize that I’m 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.

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About Me

Jens Oliver Meiert, on September 30, 2021.

I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m a frontend engineering leader and tech author/publisher. I’ve worked as a technical lead for companies like Google and as an engineering manager for companies like Miro, I’m somewhat close to W3C and WHATWG, and I write and review books for O’Reilly 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 you’d 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)

  1. On October 13, 2008, 19:31 CEST, Louis said:

    I partially agree with what has been said on your “arrogant” tone: while your posts are the work of someone that deeply knows what he’s 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!

  2. 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. It’s not mean to disagree. Feel feel to disagree with me. đŸ˜‰