Bluesky

errant.quest is #BuiltWithEleventy by @strange.website 🏆

last year i turned my travel diaries for the month i spent in switzerland and italy into a website photo-journal, hope you think it’s nice.

errant.quest

— henry ✷ (January 21, 2025 at 3:41:51 PM UTC)

long pressing on the left side of the screen on bluesky but the skeets aren’t doomscrolling at 2×

I’ll admit I haven’t kept up on the tiktok ban: what specifically about tiktok’s infrastructure is going to be affected? The app in the app store? The web site? Why not just move the TikTok servers overseas?

if there is not yet a product called eye masculiner FOR MEN that comes in a titanium case, capitalism has failed

dear marc zuckemborg what color is the masculine energy card in pokemon card game

Eleventy Ecosystem Small Release Smorgasbord №2

1️⃣ Image https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-img/releases/tag/v6.0.1
2️⃣ PostHTML URLs https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-posthtml-urls/releases/tag/v1.0.1
3️⃣ RSS https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-rss/releases/tag/v2.0.3

New on the 11ty YouTube channel:

Start Your Escape from WordPress Using 11ty (in 3 minutes!):

Start Your Escape from WordPress Using 11ty (in 3 minutes!)
It’s time to think about getting off of WordPress for more stable blogging pastures. In this video we’ll talk about using 11ty to do just that!Read the docs:...

Eleventy Ecosystem Tiny Release Smorgasbord

1️⃣ Dev Server github.com/11ty/elevent...
2️⃣ Import github.com/11ty/elevent...
3️⃣ ESM Dependency Tree github.com/11ty/elevent...
4️⃣ Prelease: Eleventy github.com/11ty/elevent... and github.com/11ty/elevent...

The Eleventy Super Professional Linkedin Certification Program is in full swing: www.11ty.dev/blog/certifi...

*wakes up in hospital*

“we’ve given you a blood transfusion in your left arm and we didn’t even need a blood donor because we used blood that we took out of your right arm”

the irony of a strongly typed superset of JavaScript that doesn’t follow semantic versioning is *wild* — we see that, right?

“tsc does not follow semantic versioning, so even minor updates can introduce changes to type checking that may break existing code.” — @satanacchio.bsky.social

satanacchio.hashnode.dev/everything-y...

10,785 files deployed in 2m 57s
3,935 files deployed in 2m 45s

12 seconds of build time saved, y’all — **incredible** gains 😅

it was this PR — some avatar image optimization tech debt with origins in the long, long ago github.com/11ty/11ty-we...

mistakes were made
mistakes were fixed

look — all I’m saying is that when I type `bs` in the URL bar it should autocomplete to bluesky even if I’ve never used that computer before

New proposal on the issue tracker to add first-party support for TypeScript in Eleventy core (in pairing with Node’s upcoming type stripping feature)

Proposal: Add first-party core support for TypeScript configuration, data, and template files · Issue #3616 · 11ty/eleventy
In preparation for Node.js stable to ship TypeScript stripping as an unflagged feature https://nodejs.org/api/typescript.html We already provide support for TypeScript via tsx, documented here: htt...

react is 4 years older than my old profile pic

my profile picture was from 2017 — it’s time for an update.

New Quick Tip on the YouTube Channel: an Eleventy Image Quickstart!

Learn how to get up and running with Eleventy Image in 2 minutes!

Learn how to Optimize your Web Site’s Images with Eleventy Image (in 2 minutes!)
Eleventy Image documentation: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/image/Eleventy Image v6.0.0 Release Notes: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-img/releases/tag/...

11ty Bundle Issue №64 from @bobmonsour.com

Issue 64 - New eleventy-img plugin, Magnify your images, Free as in 11ty-beer, A new category, The US gov using 11ty, Make a podcast site & feed, Henry's new home, Feed styling...And 3 releases, 15 posts and 22 sites to see
11ty Bundle Issue 64

Eleventy — 2024 in Review: https://www.11ty.dev/blog/review-2024/

How did we do this year?

Eleventy Image v6 is already in use on www.11ty.dev

🖼️ Eleventy Image v6.0.0 has just shipped!

1️⃣ Better p3 color support
2️⃣ Native `fetch()`
3️⃣ `transform` hooks for advanced `sharp` usage
4️⃣ sizes="auto"

Full release notes: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-img/releases/tag/v6.0.0
New, simplified docs:

Image
A docs page for Eleventy, a simpler static site generator.

you know clarence thomas would look absolutely stunning in a baja blast mountain dew robe with a nascar-inspired taco bell logo on the sleeve—c’mon there is more money to be made on the back end of corporate sponsorships

burrito surpreme court™ justices, sponsored by taco bell™

New minor release: 🐶🦴 Fetch v5.0.2

Use this package to add a configurable cache layer around any remote fetch.

Release notes: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-fetch/releases/tag/v5.0.2
Official docs: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/fetch/

subdomains are pronouns for domain names no I will not be taking questions at this time

somewhere in silicon valley there is a developer furiously writing code to implement congestion pricing for news web sites

https://henry.codes/ is gorgeously #BuiltWithEleventy by @strange.website 🏆 (and they are available for hire, too)

trying out a new issue tracker this year

data.gov is #BuiltWithEleventy 🏆

via

GitHub - GSA/datagov-11ty
Contribute to GSA/datagov-11ty development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pre-release testers wanted: Eleventy Image v6

Granular control over transform failures
Keep ICC profiles by default
Transform hook for low-level sharp control (cropping!)
`sizes=auto` support
Option to swap to smallest fallback size

Release Prerelease: Eleventy Image v6.0.0-beta.1 · 11ty/eleventy-img
returnType: "html" option will return the generated HTML directly instead of the metadata object #267 htmlOptions: {} are options passed to the generateHTML function Output format filtering (opt...

Any web property monetized via advertising is *already* primarily computer generated content—it’s been that way for at least 20 years.

They’ve always charged advertisers when bots view an ad—so why not charge for bots to generate the content too?

Meta is testing, or has started to ship, its AI generated profiles, here on Instagram

www.instagram.com/himamaliv

#SocialWeb

— Olivier Simard-Casanova (January 3, 2025 at 9:21:59 AM UTC)

can y’all settle a fashion argument my partner and I are having: is it ok to french tuck my pants into my socks?

there is a parallel here with web sites

the disappointment of first hearing an acoustic version of a really good song and finding out the artist has only officially released a studio-produced pop version

I’m a simple person—if I see you share an end-of-year wrap up post on your personal blog—I boost it

eating in a restaurant with my family and overheard two men aggressively nickname battling

“thanks boss”
“you’re welcome, bud”

verbal violence.

for every boost on this post I promise not to post on bluesky for another 10 minutes

watching kids open presents on christmas morning is genuinely one of the raddest things ever

look—if we’re going to ban the tiktok app in the us—can we at least make it fair and ban all of the apps or no

wordpress.org is #BuiltUsingEleventy with `<is-land>` on *every* page 👀

Get `<is-land>`: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/is-land/
Get `<snow-fall>`: https://github.com/zachleat/snow-fall

New core canary dropped: v3.0.1-alpha.1 https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.0.1-alpha.1 includes Import Attributes support, better support for colocating assets with `html-relative` passthrough copy, improved build performance over v3.0, and many bug fixes!

happy <html>olidays from our dumpster to yours

I could have never predicted how this would end

click this link to see if you should use them caniuse.com/raisins

— Zach Leatherman (December 19, 2024 at 7:20:02 PM UTC)

Great change!

Importantly, in the replies it is noted by @pfrazee.com that the change is not retroactive to folks already verified on a custom domain: bsky.app/profile/pfra...

as of this week, when you verify your account by updating your username from a default like emily.bsky.social to your website @emilyliu.me, your former bsky.social username is reserved for you automatically (and prevents impersonators from claiming it). you can revert back to it at anytime

How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky
Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.

— Emily Liu (December 17, 2024 at 4:34:55 PM UTC)

the twitter takes will get spicier as folks with huge twitter followings see their influence slowly drain away

yes I have seen wicked, I already know fiyero is the straw man

The worst take about the web is that you should not use HTML because Adobe Flash alone is good enough. Can’t believe I have to keep saying this

We can save the optics of using the term “mind virus” for another time (but, gross)

I truly believe that many folks in positions of power in web development don’t understand basic progressive enhancement.

“The worst take about the web is that you should not use JS/React/etc because HTML alone is good enough. It's an 'austerity mind virus' that has captured even some smart engineers.” — @rauchg.blue

Are we gonna organize a Bluesky logout/walkout? What are the next steps here to put pressure on Bluesky leadership?

whew—it’s back. we can all rest easy now

aw they deleted it, here’s a screenshot from @michaelbishop.me: bsky.app/profile/mich...

I had to grab a screenshot it was so perfect.

— Michael Bishop (December 13, 2024 at 5:57:36 PM UTC)

I… worked on this story for a year…and…they just…posted it www.defense.gov/News/News-St...

I’m disappointed to report that the three body problem has very little to do with malformed html documents

Remembering this single <div> 11ty Possum mascot from @lynnandtonic.com (October 2022) today:

A Single Div
A CSS drawing experiment to see what’s possible with a single div.

For those following along, the AutoCopy plugin is now called Html Relative Passthrough Copy and is part of the `addPassthroughCopy` API.

Coming soon to an Eleventy canary release near you:

Adds `html-relative` Passthrough Copy mode for relative asset references in HTML #3552 by zachleat · Pull Request #3573 · 11ty/eleventy
export default async function(eleventyConfig) { // glob here is relative to project root eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy("content/**/*.mp4", { mode: "html-relative" }); }...

made it to month 16 of 1200 before the founder said “it's hard to imagine wanting to continue to (sic) working on WordPress”

reading wordpress.com/100-year/ has an interesting flavor to it today

if hosting providers can’t agree on how to handle trailing slashes it doesn’t bode well for WinterCG and JavaScript server runtime variability

arewebcomponentsathingyet.com

(Yes)

I wrote about trailing slashes here: www.zachleat.com/web/trailing...

Doesn’t seem like things have improved much 😱

Another great resource on trailing slashes from @bluwy.me which continues to be one of the hardest problems in computer science: bjornlu.com/blog/trailin...

Can .astro files be compiled independently yet? How do we get @astro.build working in 11ty?

Fastmail is using Eleventy! 🏆

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/building-a-blog/

Cory Dransfeldt :demi: (@cory@follow.coryd.dev)
Pretty rad to see @fastmail@mastodon.social using @eleventy@fosstodon.org for their blog https://www.fastmail.com/blog/building-a-blog/

we now go live to the louvre

Eleventy is being used by The Louvre (probably right next to the Mona Lisa, nbd)

(via https://mastodon.social/@julientaq/113624811244701658)

https://sinovi.uk/ is #BuiltWithEleventy 🏆

oops *the upcoming AutoCopy plugin—let me just go in and edit this Bluesky post real quick

We’re seeking feedback on upcoming AutoCopy plugin: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/pull/3573

If you’ve ever struggled with Passthrough Copy in Eleventy, the goal here is to make that workflow *much* simpler! It’s like “auto-import” for *any* local file (image/video/text file/CSS/JavaScript/etc).

so is next.js stable already shipping with experimental react 20 or what’s the deal there

time to review my HTML wrapped 2024

Most used: <a>
Doing work to reduce infrastructure bills: <picture>
Underrated: <output>
Misunderstood: <details>
Tame but a small win: <search>
Hope the design never calls for it: <dialog>
Not today Satan: <canvas>
Pure vibes: <noscript>

htmlforpeople.com is #BuiltWithEleventy by @blakewatson.com 🏆

a presidential pardon for people that put milk in the bowl before the cereal

don’t tell anyone that this is a web component—I heard they weren’t the future

A casual reminder that blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/domain-... from @jim-nielsen.com is still great advice (and better than those .netlify.app and .vercel.app subdomains, even)

For folks in the northern hemisphere, it’s <snow-fall> season: www.zachleat.com/web/snow-fall/

If there are other expenses that folks think are good candidates for consolidation—please let us know! Happy to cover these

11ty Meetup followers...

Zach agreed to fund the 11ty meetup within 11ty. I donated our remaining Open Collective balance into the main 11ty one and archived ours.

All recurring donations are now cancelled (thanks Cory D and @bobmonsour.com !)

To donate to us in future, just donate to 11ty!

— Sia Karamalegos (December 2, 2024 at 6:18:21 PM UTC)

uh oh, sounds like somebody’s got a case of the cyber mondays

*Overwhelmingly* CSR in the replies there 👀

What kind of React app do you get paid to work on (not hobby projects)?

- CSR, no SSR
- Isomorphic SSR
- RSC

Again, if you don’t use React at a paid gig, don’t reply. If you maintain multiple, reply with the one that makes the most money (the product, not yourself)

— Tanner Linsley (December 1, 2024 at 4:58:47 PM UTC)

that thing read me for filth 🫣

the UX of passkeys is so good that they *feel* suspiciously insecure 😅

going through the board game collection during the holidays to pick one that pairs nicely with the meal

New `@11ty/import` release: v1.0.4

💅🏻 Cleanup code blocks with Prettier
🎞️ Colocate assets with content files
🐞 Fixes and improvements!

Release Eleventy Import v1.0.4 · 11ty/eleventy-import
Markdown conversion improvements: Use prettier to format code blocks (when language is known) turndown dependency fix: incorrect unescaping of escaped markdown content, thanks @bjones1 for mixmark...

(addendum: more online stuff should cost money)

news web sites are monetizing `overflow: hidden`

whew, this post shows that bad actors are taking advantage of the perceived credibility of custom domain usernames to impersonate very popular accounts using .bsky.social usernames 😭 bsky.app/profile/trik...

.@mantzarlis.com: 44% of the top 100 most followed individuals on BlueSky have a doppelganger account...the verification-by-domain feature is an imperfect solution, with one dupe creating a fake but credible-looking website to support their impersonator account. fakedup.substack.com/p/blueskys-d...

Quoted post

— Tracy Chou (November 27, 2024 at 4:56:58 PM UTC)

it was too soon

addendum: I’m reminded of someone linking to Bluesky on a news chyron—the .bsky.social made it clear it was a Bluesky username without an icon 👍

can we be real about the stigma associated with .bsky.social user names yet or is it too soon

now we’re going to do the technical portion of the job interview—but also we’re planning on live streaming it publicly worldwide and also you’re falling off of a cliff while your teeth are falling out and you’re late for school

I’ll run away from this—does that count

2k follows and I’ll exercise a little bit

— Zach Leatherman (October 30, 2024 at 9:47:59 PM UTC)

the decentralized intelligence agency is p2p