you know bluesky is super secure because it regularly invalidates your session and makes you log in again
the nostaglia of the “remember me” checkbox
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| Since | posts | replies | likes | reposts and quotes | views | |
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| Bluesky | 1,039 | 8,236 | 23,127 | 2,380 | ||
| Mastodon | 2,399 | 29,156 | 55,396 | 16,820 | ||
| GitHub | 179 | 5,777 3,520 | 33,866 | 3,317 | ||
| npm | 139 | 1,546 | 75,991,720 | |||
| YouTube | 30 | 1,203 | 32,713 | |||
| Letterboxd | 55 | |||||
| Blog | 20 | |||||
| Hacker News | 59 | 575 | 802 | |||
| All | 4,807 | 37,967 | 114,394 | 22,517 | 76,024,433 |
you know bluesky is super secure because it regularly invalidates your session and makes you log in again
the nostaglia of the “remember me” checkbox
A new (experimental) technique for image optimization: SVG Short Circuiting
Wishing the best for friends laid off this week. Remember that layoffs are nothing more than evidence of inept leadership.
Even the ability to set up cross-project dependencies to automatically build dependent projects is cool—but with @cloudcannon.bsky.social’s just-shipped Site Mounting feature you can share files, data, and content between those projects too—pre-build or post-build!
before I flush my DNS can anyone tell me if it’s septic-safe
frontend = cheetah
backend = elephant
isomorphic = let’s tie the cheetah and elephant together to improve our velocity
A brand new mascot commissioned from @reverentgeek.com has wandered on to the web site!
If you have a name idea for this critter, please let us know!
I will have a lot of explaining to do when my kids find out that reese‘s cups aren’t loaded with coconut
Am I finally going back and publishing my backlog of web components to my web site? Yes, yes I am. Here’s another:
<squirm-inal>
This one progressively reveals any arbitrary HTML content and includes a lesson on when server rendering is not optimal, actually 😅
I asked for a coke and they asked me if pepsi was okay but I lost touch with pepsi a few years back. are they okay? does anyone know?
Happening today, Friday October 27 (in about 2 hours):
Sure to be a good discussion about possible next steps for the Jamstack Community from @cloudcannon.bsky.social’s @mikeneumegen.bsky.social and @netlify.com’s @biilmann.bsky.social:
New web component dropped: <browser-window>
Fake some Safari-esque browser chrome in a demo or web-based slide deck.
📓 Blog post: www.zachleat.com/web/browser-...
🎪 Demo: zachleat.github.io/browser-wind...
💾 Code: github.com/zachleat/bro...
Arbitrary milestone alert:
Eleventy (core) has hit 7 Million npm Downloads:
“We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”
jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cr...
A Left That Refuses to Condemn Mass Murder Is Doomed:
nymag.com/intelligence...
(via @joel.in)
Shipped: a lightweight structural-only zero-dependency web component wrapper for <table> to render wide tables in small viewports.
Appreciate everyone that watched the Jamstack ZHUZH Panel live last week!
I’ve uploaded an HD version of the stream if you’re still interested in checking it out and stay tuned for more Jamstack revival coming soon.
Can the Jamstack community be saved? Can we reorganize as a community-led effort? Do we want to? What is a Zhuzh? Let’s talk about it!
Join us 🚨 LIVE TOMORROW 🚨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX6U...
With:
• @philhawksworth.bsky.social
• @jaredwhite.bsky.social
• @remotesynthesis.com
• Brittney Postma
A few weeks ago I asked folks on Mastodon what blog posts were most influential to how they build for the web. I had a lot of fun building a little micro-site for these links:
This site makes a great reading list (with an RSS feed too) and uses @cloudcannon.bsky.social with @11ty.dev.
We come to you now with an Officially Big Announcement regarding a new partnership between Eleventy and CloudCannon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nypsmn70ipI
(and hello to Bluesky!)
There will be a Big Eleventy Announcement today! Stay tuned!
“a personality best described as a human modal window”
if bluesky adds DMs they should be called diskreets
anyone need bluesky invites
formal petition to write alf into a gritty reboot of cats the musical
A new blog post with some important news about the future of Eleventy:
https://www.zachleat.com/web/eleventy-side-project/
Appreciate y’all ❤️
does messi know that inter miami is in florida
the bluesky web UI has so many double scrollbars 😬
this is your yearly reminder to test with visible scrollbars, please and thank you!
in some scenarios it can even help reduce your page’s content layout shift, too!

I am so excited to be speaking at Fronteers in September!
They just launched their new web site: https://fronteersconf.org/
looks like the soft-block to force an unfollow doesn’t work on bluesky either, unless it’s an eventual consistency bug
side eye at an account following 90K people, roughly 90% of all accounts on here? platforms have an incentive to allow/encourage growth hacking, I suppose.
yo is it legal to talk about the fediverse on here
if color gamut is a subset of color it’s not really a gamut at all—is it
…is it
Hmm—does Bluesky plan to allow unauthenticated access to content? Why does viewing a profile page require login?
this is the tech content you crave
rihanna’s new single “no one wants to work work work work work anymore”
weeeee I set my blueysky (mom! dad! bingo!) handle to @zachleat.com
Finishing up an energizing week with new and old friends at JSHeroes in Romania 🥰
Incredible conference, lovely people.
