ever heard of the central apple intelligence agency
no, I bet not
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ever heard of the central apple intelligence agency
no, I bet not
New proposal for an automatic passthrough file copy feature:
Automatic passthrough copy for files referenced in HTML output files · Issue #3552 · 11ty/eleventy
Use the existing HTML transformer architecture and wire it up to passthrough file copy to move any references to content on the local file system to the output folder automatically. For example: <i...
is there a way to force an unfollow on bluesky?
extremism uses civility as a weapon
Kinda wish I could add other people’s starter packs to the Starter Packs tab on my profile
If you already follow 100% of a starter pack, you know it’s a good starter pack 😍
I created a personal website starter pack!
All the lovely people on this list have ✨fantastic✨ personal #websites or #blogs. 👏 I hope you like it. 🤗
(Feel free to suggest your favorite personal websites as well, of course.)
bluesky RSS feeds be like [contains quote post or other embedded content]
imma gonna need a labeler to show core web vitals pass/fail (or lighthouse scores, whatevs) of their home page on brand accounts 😘
Absolutely INCREDIBLE demonstration of what this platform can do: subscribe to this labeler and see which fancy private school different UK public figures on here went to, and how much those schools cost. bsky.app/profile/dadd...
Experimenting with @11ty.dev’s Import to create a single (eventually searchable) archive for Bluesky and Mastodon (and others, eventually). Super early preview: nexodus.zachleat.dev
Docs for Eleventy Fetch v5.0 have been updated and are live on the web site: www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins...
Release notes: github.com/11ty/elevent...
I definitely prefer error messages over whatever happened on bluesky today—a bunch of likes and boosts just *never happened* which will have me doubting the reliability of every action I do on this site for a day or two
vindicated bsky.app/profile/pfra...
Due to the server issues some of your recent posts may have gotten fewer likes than they deserved
Please accept this coupon to rectify this, which allows you to imagine you got 10 more likes on your post than you did
even our UI has trouble with optimism nowadays
seeing some gnarly optimistic UI eventual consistency problems on this web site today
Help Eleventy by filling out Survey Awesome!
If ever you wanted a say in future priorities in the 11ty Ecosystem, now is the time to weigh in: www.11ty.dev/blog/survey-...
Appreciate you all!
we can at least agree that `<details inert>` is progressive non-disclosure
please sign this document stating that you won’t reveal our use of UX patterns to defer information as needed for advanced or secondary tasks
it’s a progressive disclosure non-disclosure agreement
New release: 🦴🐀 Eleventy Fetch v5.0.0
👑 Using platform `fetch()` (with timeout support!)
🎂 Adds URL, arbitrary function sources
🍣 Adds XML, parsed XML, raw response types
🗄️ Custom cache filename callbacks
Release Eleventy Fetch v5.0.0 · 11ty/eleventy-fetch
npm install @11ty/eleventy-fetch@5.0.0 Breaking: requires Node 18+ Breaking: Use native fetch() and drop node-fetch dependency by @uncenter in #37 Support URL instance target #41 Use AbortSignal ...
anildash.com is #BuiltWithEleventy 🏆
Hi everybody! In anticipation of doing more writing, I’ve brought all 25 years of my blog archives online, cleaned up lots of dead links, and even added a basic search capability. I hope there’s something there you find valuable! www.anildash.com (And let me know what I should write about next.)
Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Introducing 📥 11ty/import: a CLI tool to import content as static files
👋🏻 Easily export all of your WordPress posts
👀 Show recent 🦋 Bluesky posts on your web site without expensive embeds
✅ Make a CMS out of anything on the web using PESOS
Try it out:
GitHub - 11ty/eleventy-import: Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too)
Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too) - 11ty/eleventy-import
The Bluesky Show

rotate your authentication tolkiens
What’s the best method to speedily bulk delete tweets?
time for another round of astrology for web developers—make sure your birth sign aligns with the javascript framework chosen for you by the bizdev team
(proper credit to @darn.es who did this one first: mastodon.design/@DavidDarnes...)
/wp-discontent/
11 year old thread continued from www.zachleat.com/twitter/1483...
in the year of decorative gourds 2024, a mere 25 years after the format’s standardization—the newest version of Mac OS Preview.app (Sequoia 15.1) still cannot open an SVG file 😭
Software developers say “Use the right tool for the job—but wouldn’t it be better if this one tool solved every problem and use case for everyone for the remainder of time as we perceive and understand it”
(recommendations welcome)
well, I know of at least one, now: go.bsky.app/KvgKwov
any good web components starter packs yet?
lost and founder mode
web components are good
Don’t forget to tag @11ty.dev in your Eleventy posts on here, please!
I think a good source for folks that attempted this is from the Tweetback open source project! (Twitter Data Export)
Here’s a starter pack of those folks: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Let’s shout out the folks that left Twitter *years* ago, too.
If I follow you on Mastodon/Fedi and we haven’t yet connected over here, please DM me so I can remedy this!
soft skill issue
apparently the CEO of Vercel is full-on MAGA?? ugh, I had no idea
We need to be thinking ahead to when Musk or a Musk-type buys Bluesky.
babe, you okay? you’ve barely touched your linkedin since bluesky took off
please don’t update your avatar photo when you join a new social network—I use those photos to remember people I know!
reply here if you want to be on my “the absolute worst” starter pack
Healthy (derogatory)
how do you edit posts on this web site
see you in your nightmares

hello to our new bsky friends 🤗
prototype pollution is more tolerable than noise pollution
do you get penalized for linking to things here
Lovely to see another exodus of folks from X/Twitter (whether it be to Bluesky or Mastodon—we’ll take the win)
—gandalf
this too shall pass
for every like I will silently judge your taste in social media posts
started to make a myspace top 8 starter pack for bluesky but it felt too exclusionary so I quit
I’m just posting here so I won’t get fined
bluesky, greenfield, same shit, different day
Put up the slides from my talk at #WebUnleashed last week:
The Best And Worst Parts Of Eleventy (Now In v3)—Web Unleashed 2024—zachleat.com
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Eleventy 3.0.0 is now available!
Over a year of work, 22 pre-releases, so many contributors. Thank you to our entire community—y’all make this project possible. ❤️
📮 Big news today, y’all: 11ty is joining Font Awesome
📮 New blog post:
The Sneaky Costs of Scaling Serverless
https://www.zachleat.com/web/serverless-cost/
Chronicling a migration of the beefy 11ty Screenshots API to a new hosting provider.
📮 A new blog post about how I used the Conditional Exports feature in Node.js to improve the error messaging when someone tries to require("@11ty/eleventy") in Eleventy 3.0 (written in ESM)
I was on @changelog.com’s JS Party #325 to talk about an independent @11ty.dev!
www.zachleat.com/web/jsparty-...
Thank you @jerod.bsky.social and @nicknisi.com!
A blog post about what is likely the biggest @11ty.dev news in our project’s history — and we need your help!
A few samples:
1️⃣ nextjs.org: FID 19ms ✅ is now INP 363ms ⚠️
2️⃣ react.dev: FID 18ms ✅ is now INP 408ms ⚠️
3️⃣ vercel.com: FID 135ms ⚠️ is now INP 975ms ⛔
One human earth week (March 12) until INP becomes a Core Web Vital—with big implications to the JS-heavy React-ecosystem.
Folks hiding bad lab data (Lighthouse) behind field data (Core Web Vitals) are right to be nervous about this! Core Web Vitals affect your Google rank 👀
📮 New post: Elevating Video Transcripts as Searchable Content www.zachleat.com/web/transcri...
The call for talk proposals to the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good is now open!
If you’re interested in speaking at the conference, get your submission(s) in by March 22:
New web component: <hyper-card>
Adds a three-dimensional hover effect to any arbitrary content. (With full credit to Mark Mironyuk’s lovely Codepen!)
📮 Post: www.zachleat.com/web/hypercard/
🖼️ Demo: zachleat.github.io/hypercard/de...
⚙️ Source code: github.com/zachleat/hyp...
New web component: <webcare-webshare>
Uses the Web Share API to share a web site, falling back (on desktop usually) to a copy to clipboard workflow.
📮 Blog post: www.zachleat.com/web/webcare-...
🖼️ Demo: zachleat.github.io/webcare-webs...
⚙️ Source code: github.com/zachleat/web...
Got my ticket to the 11ty Conference! conf.11ty.dev/tickets/876c...
Registration for 11ty Conference (May 9, 2024) is now open—join us!
🪧 New release: Eleventy Image v4.0.0
⚙️ Node.js 18+
🧭 Adds `fixOrientation`
⛰️ Adds `minimumThreshold`
🎨 Fix height on animated GIF sources
🚣 Experimental: new Eleventy Transform plugin for zero-config Image Optimization
Full release notes: github.com/11ty/elevent...
sometimes the best way to follow your dreams is to take a nap
4 out of 5 dentists recommend toothbrush botnet
📮 New post:
Lessons learned moving Eleventy (@11ty.dev) from CommonJS to ESM.
www.zachleat.com/web/eleventy...
New talk video and slides from CFE’s TheJamDev event.
📮 New web component: <carou-scroll>
www.zachleat.com/web/carouscr...
Not quite a carousel, this component allows next/previous buttons to control a horizontal scrollable container.
I use this on my site to render exported Keynote slide decks in blog posts.
📮 New post:
The Good, The Bad, The Web Components
www.zachleat.com/web/good-bad...
A full crash course on the state of web components, where they fit in JavaScript frameworks landscape, and how to make use of them moving forward!
Join us for the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good
(We are running a conference in May 2024!)
The first release of Internet Explorer (1995) is closer in time to the Apollo 11 moon landing (1969) than now.
I tested the new microsoft copilot button and I have bad news: it’s actually a copilot <div>
📮 New on the blog, my 2023 recap post:
“2023 has been one hell-for-leather roller coaster of a year.”
I’ll be speaking at TheJam.dev 2024 at the end of January!
📮 New on the blog:
Netlify’s Disingenuous Survey-based Attack on Next.js (and Eleventy, too)
Breaking news: I have also decided not to buy Figma for $20B today
Going back and forth between Threads and Bluesky, it’s incredible how much more intuitively designed the Bluesky web site is. Everything is labeled here. On Threads everything is an icon—you never know what it does until you click on it 😱
For those brave souls that like to live on the edge: Eleventy v3.0.0-alpha releases have started rolling!
📮 New on the blog:
Calling all courageous canary testers for Eleventy v3.0
…in which we discuss the new v3.0.0-alpha releases!— Build Awesome (11ty) (December 18, 2023 at 2:28:51 PM UTC)
📮 New on the blog:
Calling all courageous canary testers for Eleventy v3.0
…in which we discuss the new v3.0.0-alpha releases!
zachleat.com is now building using the very first alpha release of @11ty.dev v3.0:
You can see my upgrade PR below. It was—well—a pretty straightforward upgrade:
📮 One YouTube Embed weighs almost 1.2 MB
🎥 New video:
Live Editing on an @11ty.dev Web Site in @cloudcannon.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsWt...
My favorite part of this demo is showing live updates on the <browser-window> web component 👀 (~1 minute in)
Was Jamstack a zero interest rate phenomenon?
📮 New post: The Tension and Future of Jamstack
www.zachleat.com/web/jamstack...
The Infinity Hamburger Menu, now in (Shadow DOM 😤) Web Component form