Zach Leatherman :11ty:

https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat

Follow along to learn about web development news, trends, and best practices that work.

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🎈 Creator/Maintainer of :11ty: Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0-beta.1 (npub1f8f…ed9x) https://www.11ty.dev/
🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software
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Blog: https://www.zachleat.com
Eleventy: https://www.11ty.dev
Eleventy 🐘 Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy

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2024-09-30 13:03:39

[@timmywil](https://hachyderm.io/@timmywil ) I’m curious if jQuery has seen a web component compatibility maintenance burden?

2024-09-20 13:31:12

I can only afford to be chronically online on a maximum of one social network

2024-09-19 19:10:22

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just smoosh it right onto document—what could go wrong
(https://developer.chrome.com/blog/smooshgate/)

2024-09-18 15:41:03

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absolutely, I’m not your boss

2024-09-18 15:32:59

finally adding an Eleventy.__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED property

2024-09-06 18:36:07

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even better if you’re typing a password 👀

2024-08-28 17:37:18

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I’ve seen some things 😅 Extremely lucky to have a good family support structure in my life

2024-08-28 16:50:03

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nodding along to this one—it can be really hard when someone else is having a bad day and comes at you with a wild-ass argumentative reply. Especially true if you’re doing any kind of community building—suddenly the job feels in-part therapist to the world (and that *really* sucks)

2024-08-06 21:00:24

📮 New blog post:
The Sneaky Costs of Scaling Serverless
https://www.zachleat.com/web/serverless-cost/
Chronicling the *wonderful time* I had migrating the beefy 11ty Screenshots API to a new hosting provider.

2024-08-06 14:31:00

Whoa, this is big news: nunjucks4 is a fully-async rewrite/revival of Nunjucks: https://mastodon.social/@jameswragg/112914191470870251
via @npub14sg…zr34

2024-08-05 16:10:26

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inspired by this @npub19vk…kr3e project: https://mastodon.social/@glitchdotcom/112910252389116863

2024-08-05 16:09:34

https://cdn.masto.host/fediversezachleatcom/media_attachments/files/112/910/278/670/274/652/original/ba6d1fbc9ee6b9d9.png

2024-08-02 20:47:49

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our open collective fiscal host is a 501c6:
https://opencollective.com/opensource
https://docs.opencollective.com/help/about/company

2024-08-02 19:32:58

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in the immortal words of steffi graf: have you heard of our sustainability fundraising initiative https://www.11ty.dev/blog/sustainability-fundraising/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqb75RN-9RA

2024-08-02 19:24:22

first marriage proposal because of @npub1f8f…ed9x so you could say things are getting *pretty* serious: https://indieweb.social/@bobmonsour/112893676626086346

2024-07-30 16:36:22

I always lock my computer when I get up from my desk because of the greatest operational security threat facing my workspace: cats walking or sitting on the keyboard

2024-07-25 15:01:42

Some good points about venture capital backed open source from @npub1tns…snct here: https://mastodon.ie/@Colman/112840985325704306
I’d also add that small scale closed source and venture capital backed open source aren’t the only two options.

2024-07-22 18:15:58

Would be nice to have an option in GitHub Issues notification settings to know when a maintainer comments. It would allow subscribing but skip drive-by comments from everyone else.
https://cdn.masto.host/fediversezachleatcom/media_attachments/files/112/831/500/259/428/932/original/aed2b35c968a5c1e.png

2024-07-22 15:03:54

Just stumbled across a 1.2 MB SVG favicon in the wild 😅

2024-07-19 20:57:35

Genuinely upset at the retirement of Google’s URL shortener, goo.gl.
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
Just to be clear, this will break a large portion of the web for what seems to be a marginal cost savings. So many Google decisions—including the recent sale of Google Domains—have us asking why? Who’s making the decisions over there?

2024-07-19 16:33:38

is anyone interested in trying my new C-00000291*.sys plugin for eleventy

2024-07-19 16:29:23

If your GitHub Actions are failing right now (specifically on Node 22), here are the GitHub issues you may be interested in subscribing to:
https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/7672
https://github.com/actions/setup-node/issues/1112
https://github.com/actions/node-versions/pull/182

2024-07-17 14:01:57

There are incredible parallels between the failure modes of smart home technology and modern web site architecture:
When the power goes out 🤝 When JavaScript fails
My smart lock failed and I’m locked out of my house 🤝 This form button doesn’t submit
The company went out of business and now this {smart device 🤝 JavaScript framework} isn’t receiving updates and poses a security risk

2024-07-12 14:17:43

What’s the latest writing/research/best-practices on bundling versus code splitting? Large requests versus splitting into smaller ones?
Hoping for something a bit more nuanced than “reducing download size is good” or “reducing network count is good.”

2024-07-10 15:23:17

Incremental Font Transfer has the potential to change *everything* (for the better) about how we load web fonts: https://typo.social/@pixelambacht/112762627296863187
Been waiting for something like this for about 10 years—exciting news!

2024-07-08 14:43:40

at the library with the kids and found a “high performance react web sites” book in the fiction section

2024-07-01 14:01:53

Hire @npub17z3…j73v.
That’s it—do it.
Have you contacted them yet?
Stop reading this—go!

2024-07-01 13:40:51

Today, the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader eleven short years ago on July 1, 2013.
To honor their memory (and in leiu of flowers) please add an RSS, Atom, JSON or equivalent feed to your web site and keep building towards a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.

2024-06-27 14:36:49

Upgraded @npub1f8f…ed9x from ESLint v8 to v9 in less than 5 minutes using the new `@eslint/migrate-config` package. Was even able to remove a few unused inline directives too 🏆
Thanks @npub1med…v0f7 team!

2024-06-26 16:31:00

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The other lesson here is in the real consequences of maintainers (even those with a small following) airing small dev grievances on Twitter (Svelte/SvelteKit in this case).
The parasitically harmful YouTube JavaScript influencer ecosystem feeds on small drama like this, resulting in elevated abuse toward well-intentioned maintainers—pretty gross all around.

2024-06-26 15:01:36

One lesson I’m taking away from the axobject-query incident: there isn’t a formal agreement about which npm packages are isomorphic JavaScript friendly (intended for both client & server).
Notably the `browser` key in package.json is documented as to be used *instead* of `main` (not both): https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v10/configuring-npm/package-json#browser (and axobject-query does not use `browser`)
Assuming that packages are client bundle friendly without tacit agreement from the maintainers of those packages is perilous!

2024-06-25 20:48:31

incredible news today that googie anaiytics is not a reputable vendor of javascript
https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack

2024-06-24 18:51:37

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haha, I like the idea of negativity budgets 😅
I give myself one negativity token for every two nice things I say

2024-06-24 18:44:24

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appreciate it Sara (it does help!)

2024-06-24 18:22:24

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I really struggle with the tension between healthy criticism and negativity.

2024-06-07 17:20:06

curious what percentage of y’all:

2024-05-30 21:36:26

34 felonies seems like a lot of felonies

2024-05-22 16:52:08

A blog post about what is likely the biggest @npub1f8f…ed9x news in our project’s history — and we need your help!
https://www.zachleat.com/web/independent-sustainable-11ty/
#11ty

2024-05-15 16:26:25

I somehow missed that the @npub133e…rqrd Kickstarter for Web Components launched a few days ago: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified
Surely will be an amazing resource for folks looking to learn more about Web Components! (… and a great use of your employer-sponsored education stipend if you’ve got one!)

2024-05-06 20:13:22

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https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board

2024-05-06 20:11:12

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if anyone has an invite code to the bluesky board of directors my DMs are open

2024-05-06 20:05:23

I too would like to announce that I am not on the bluesky board of directors

2024-03-18 15:04:18

Framing this Twitter exchange on my wall
(sorry for the Twitter link, but it’s worth it https://twitter.com/karrisaarinen/status/1769101933480911033)
https://cdn.masto.host/fediversezachleatcom/media_attachments/files/112/117/369/258/083/310/original/7e5fb69672f7f929.png