Bluesky

Out now: Eleventy (core) v3.1.5, solely an update to our downstream dependencies.

github.com/11ty/elevent...

css masonry deprivation tank

is… is this good? is this software good? is this an example of good software?

moving forward I will only accept corporate transparency reports in GIF89a format

The 49MB Web Page thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...

we have two black cats named hex and jinx but when they are in trouble their names become hexadecimal and jinxadecimal

ooh, looks like a big win in dependency reduction shipped for folks using the new v5 of `ejs`: github.com/mde/ejs/issu...

I’m really curious what’s above this store

Pretty good sticker haul from @londonwebstandards.org State of the Browser last week! #SotB #SotB26

New on the Blog: Eleventy is now Build Awesome www.11ty.dev/blog/build-a...

Just a little update in video form too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWqP...

Whew. What a week. We have some hard but important news to share about the Kickstarter: blog.fontawesome.com/pausing-kick...

We’ll be back soon!

The ’possum is running wild: Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome.

Same open source core, a much bigger future. Watch our video and support us on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...

Coming soon: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...

it would be an understatement to say that tomorrow will be a very big day

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...

My kryptonite is that I typically am not online when I’m out at events in an attempt to be as present as possible — but I’ll go through all of the feedback now that I’m back home!

Returned from @londonwebstandards.org’ State of the Browser #SotB26 feeling incredibly grateful. An urgent & evergreen reminder that building a community around inclusion, diversity, and the safety to speak hard truths even when they aren’t popular is so important — good people of the web, unite!

Looking forward to seeing everyone at @londonwebstandards.org #SotB today!

Watching the inimitable Brandi Carlile stream a fundraiser concert for Minneapolis live right now.

veeps.com/brandicarlil...

My personal blog turns 19 years old today

×466 blog posts
×3 tech stacks
×4 different web hosts
×3,991,865 pageviews

www.zachleat.com/uses/#site-h...

A blog post means it’s real:

An official* logo for HTML (from Sam Stephenson)

www.zachleat.com/web/html-logo/

does HTML have a logo yet

it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built

“Dad, have you heard of the Expiration of Independence?”

“Hm… do you mean the Declaration of Independence?”

“Yeah, that one.”

PRs… not welcome? 😅

github.blog/changelog/20...

gushing over the maintainability and simplicity of @jim-nielsen.com’s menu as a whole dang separate-standalone-HTML-page: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/lots-of...

(via @dbushell.com)

If you have Bluetooth headphones and haven’t updated the firmware in awhile, it’s probably a good idea to do so as the headphones themselves can be compromised (unless you live in a Faraday cage or remote work from Iowa):

insinuator.net/2025/06/airo...

has anyone made a <sup>erscript bowl joke yet

Just shipped a major version bump to my meta package `zachleat@43` github.com/zachleat/pac...

JavaScript’s `using` variable declaration is *almost* ready for primetime.

✅ Now available in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Node 24, Deno
❌ Not yet in Safari 🥹

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

it’s a good day to have a static site

I think cydstumpel.nl from @cydstumpel.nl has one of the first examples of <video> using transparency that I’ve noticed in the wild!

Read more in this post from @jakearchibald.com: jakearchibald.com/2024/video-w...

the worst parts of open source funding reflect a gig economy

The marketing strategy is: Hyperbole™

jQuery 4.0 is ESM at the source 🏆

blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/j...

“…he stole my frog that I had for the frog jumping competition” is wild new lore that my partner (18 years in, btw) just casually and unironically dropped on me today

in the hacker news comments section, please send help

always bet on CSS.

the rapture happened in 2016 but no one made the cut

I think I found a Node.js bug! github.com/nodejs/node/...

if you want stable and reliable software, give developers stable and reliable employment

a reliable source has relayed that perhaps the flight attendant in fact said “infant life vests” which, in fairness to my ego, seems equally implausible

look, as my own internal dialogue has surmised: no aircraft can contain an infinite number of life vests. that would be silly. anyone would be silly to think that. the flight attendants did not announce that as part of the safety briefing…

when VC funded projects quiet-quit

A look back at the year of 11ty, 2025 edition (№8):

+73% releases (×177)
+15% issues closed (×804)
+51% downloads (4.7M)
-28% dependencies (×134)
-22% size (21 MB)

www.11ty.dev/blog/review-...

it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership failure, full stop.

just to be clear the pluribus hive mind is the borg with a smile

happy holidays

with a *huge* assist from @svelte.dev’s www.npmjs.com/package/@sve... here

first draft of zero configuration typescript (with dependency mapping) in @11ty.dev is working — weeeeeeeeeeee

software complexity sells via developer ego

happy holidays!

Just deleted a bunch of testing boilerplate in this repo after @vitest.dev added `import.meta.resolve` support 🏆

github.com/vitest-dev/v...

I think github.com/zachleat/imp... is one of the best things I’ve built this year (even if no one else does 😅)

Writing database queries is too close to the metal. Best practices don’t work! It’s time to make SQL enterprise-scale with utility classes.

tailwindsql.xyz

Curious how to use Node.js’s new Type Stripping feature for TypeScript compatibility with Eleventy? We have you covered: www.11ty.dev/docs/languag...

a one-way street can also be a two-way street with the right attitude

“a one-way mirror, also called two-way mirror…” — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way...

CommonJS? ESM? TypeScript? Wait, even CommonJS TypeScript?? Eleventy can run them all.

www.11ty.dev/docs/cjs-esm/

Which should you choose? It depends! The social-media sized answer is: ESM 😅

leadership wants an everything app
users want an everything bagel

Tiny bug fix release of `<table-saw>`: github.com/zachleat/tab...

👍✅ Runtimes supporting CommonJS and ESM
👎❌ Modules dual publishing CommonJS and ESM

Well, wait — @deno.land both supports and absolutely does not support CommonJS 😅

1️⃣ docs.deno.com/examples/cjs...
2️⃣ deno.com/blog/commonj...
3️⃣ docs.deno.com/runtime/fund...

a dad hat that says “corny on main”

Currently wondering what it feels like to work so hard on a typeface only to have it co-opted by very terrible and very famous people as part of their core brand identity.

Thankful to Jack Lo Russo for their 11ty docs contribution detailing how to use @deno.land’s new `dx` command with Eleventy: www.11ty.dev/docs/javascr...

Coming to a canary near you: support for Node’s Module Compile Cache (existing Node 20+ minimum is unchanged but this is featured tested and available in Node 22.8+ only).

github.com/11ty/elevent...

one of the 5 stages of grief is denial of service

ok fine but can react server components show emotional vulnerability too

Eleventy Core Dependency Watch (2025 Edition)

www.11ty.dev/blog/depende...

v4.0.0.alpha.6 (compared with v3) reduces:

1️⃣ dependencies 21.6%
2️⃣ 3rd-party dependencies 27.6%
3️⃣ node_modules weight 33.3%

is software getting better?

New core pre-release: v4.0.0-alpha.6

github.com/11ty/elevent...

Note: this includes a new `@​11ty/nunjucks` package.

my hot take is that I think every VC-funded software project should report how much runway they have left every month

TIL about Carlito, a typeface (derived from Lato) made by Łukasz Dziedzic — the same type designer that made Lato!

github.com/googlefonts/...

Take my npm tokens, take my land,
Take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.