About the Author

Jens Oliver Meiert is an engineering lead and author who, after several years as a tech lead at Google, works as an engineering manager at Miro. He’s an expert in web development, specializing in HTML and CSS minimization and optimization. Jens contributes to technical standards and regularly writes about the craft of web development on his website, meiert.com. The reason you’re able to check out this book is that he also loves philosophy and agency.

Other titles by Jens Oliver Meiert:

Tara tells the story of a woman who refuses to live in a dystopia and, with the help of friends and like-minded peers, sets off to transform the world.

This human-inspired, AI-generated, human-edited book is an experimental challenge to the suggestion that we cannot think of and strive for a world where we do not destroy our environment and each other.

Available at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and Leanpub.

How can we learn more effectively? How can we best work on ourselves? How do we grow? That is the subject of this brief book, this short sketch by interim philosopher and world traveler, Jens Oliver Meiert. A light treatise on personal growth, he goes over 20 paths to get to know ourselves, for “we are okay as we are, but we can always improve.”

Available at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and Leanpub.

This is the book that the most boring person would write when they discovered life’s possibilities. Meet Jens, a hectic, neurotic self-proclaimed adventurer, and his very individual account of one hundred different activities he tried over the course of three years (2010–2013). From rafting to security guard certifications to crocheting, everything had a lesson, and these lessons are shared in this book. Look forward to the German answer to Winston Wolfe explaining one way to live life.

Available at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and Leanpub.

This is not a typical poetry book. It is a selection of short poems that originated in a mistaken and later free interpretation of haiku, which then took on a life of its own. It is a selection of 199 short poems about love, romance, joy, drama, despair, and freedom.

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What is a BHO? CQRS? An EMD? What is Goanna? Hooking? Sharding? How about dynamic color, the phoenix server pattern, or the rules of ARIA? Covering more than 3,000 terms and concepts, and including explanations from Wikipedia and MDN Web Docs, The Web Development Glossary 3K provides an overview of web development unlike any other book or site.

Available at Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and Leanpub. (Try the glossary online at WebGlossary.info.)