John Mueller

@johnmu
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he/him - Search Advocate / Developer Relations at #Google in #Switzerland. Personal account, posts are my own. Likes search engines, #SEO, #coffee, #cheese, #microcontrollers, #electronics, #cycling, and #Zwift.

Sometimes annoyed, sometimes annoying.

For Google official guidance, check out https://developers.google.com/search/ & https://goo.gle/seo-oh - my team does awesome stuff over there.

Websitehttps://johnmu.com
Googlehttps://developers.google.com/search/blog/authors/john-mueller
Githubhttps://github.com/softplus
John MuellerOct 10, 2024
Jens Oliver MeiertOct 10, 2024

8 AI Tips for Web Developers (and Their Careers):

I’ve shared a few thoughts on how we could or should use AI in our work and our career, over at SitePoint. (As I state in the article, there are many problems with AI, problems we should still address.)

https://www.sitepoint.com/ai-tips-for-web-developers-and-their-careers/

#ai #webdev

8 AI Tips for Web Developers (and Their Careers) — SitePoint

Read 8 AI Tips for Web Developers (and Their Careers) and learn AI with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

John MuellerJun 17, 2024
World Wide Web ConsortiumJun 14, 2024

W3C offers tools and validators including:

Nu HTML Checker: Checks HTML documents.
Link Checker: Checks web pages for broken links.
Internationalization Checker: Checks level of internationalization
EPUBCheck: Conformance checker for EPUB publications.
CSS Validator: Checks your CSS.
RDF Validator: Checks and visualizes RDF documents.
RSS Feed Validator: Validator for syndicated feeds (RSS and Atom feeds).
#aboutW3C
https://www.w3.org/developers/tools/

Validators and tools

 This page lists the validators and web developer tools.

W3C
John MuellerJun 2, 2024
Show threadProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Jun 2, 2024

Here's my answer to the question WTF is AI?

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/opening-remarks-on-ai-in-the-workplace-new-crisis-or-longstanding-challenge-eb81d1bee9f

Opening remarks on “AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstanding Challenge”

On Thursday 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Bobby Scott on “AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstanding Challenge?”. The roundtable was a…

Medium
John MuellerMay 19, 2024
CSS CaféMay 14, 2024
display: nun #btconf #btconf24
John MuellerApr 29, 2024
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉Apr 29, 2024
Who called it “search engine optimization” instead of adversarial attacks on ranking algorithms? #SEO
John MuellerMar 18, 2024
Riddles 😎🏳️‍🌈😂Mar 15, 2024
@RIDDLES
John MuellerMar 15, 2024
dannysullivanMar 15, 2024
The G in "Bene Gesserit" is pronounced like the G in "gif." Glad I could clear this up. #Dune #Dune2
John MuellerMar 6, 2024
Barry PollardMar 6, 2024

File more bugs people!

It won't mean it WILL get fixed, but it gives it MUCH higher chance! A good bug with a minimal repro has an EVEN bigger chance.

"It doesn't work" or "here's my entire codebase/website, you go find the bug in amongst all that" reduces the chance.

Good read on the subject from @nolan :
https://nolanlawson.com/2024/03/03/bugs-ive-filed-on-browsers/

Bugs I’ve filed on browsers

I think filing bugs on browsers is one of the most useful things a web developer can do. When faced with a cross-browser compatibility problem, a lot of us are conditioned to just search for some q…

Read the Tea Leaves
John MuellerFeb 20, 2024
Peter KrönerFeb 20, 2024
John MuellerFeb 12, 2024
Tim BrayFeb 12, 2024
The Mastodon instance “queer.af” has been shut down… by the Taliban. No, not a joke, what country do you think “.af” is? Be careful with your cc TLD's, folks.