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Election week always unlocks a special pattern of unhinged “Midwest is a monolith” political commentary from otherwise reasonable East/West coast pundits.

the implied existence of Nightlight Saving Time

if you wait long enough a github star turns into a github black hole

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Thankful to see that 11ty was removed from the next State of JS survey (per my request): https://github.com/Devographics/surveys/issues/252#issuecomment-2443276622

I maintain that the State of JS is mostly a popularity contest, highly correlated to marketing budgets and VC investment.

TIL stock WordPress only supports a single author for a blog post. Huh.

A fascinating look at Google Fonts from @stoyan shows the median size for variable (Latin-extended) web font on the service is 34744 bytes.

Hefty!

https://www.phpied.com/web-font-file-size-study-a-variable-font-addition/

you can see this on the CommonMark interactive dingus https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/

TIL Markdown hyperlink and image syntax doesn’t support whitespace in targets (`href` or `src` HTML attributes, respectively).


is rendered as:

<p></p>

😭

We did it, Joe.

why did it take an hour for someone to tell me I forgot the URL 😅🫠

“Platform Strategy and Its Discontents” from @slightlyoff

Yet another treatise on conflicting incentives hurting the web. Make sure to read the footnotes…

https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/

Closely watching Croissant 👀 https://mastodon.social/@BenRiceM/113385700599364899

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/croissant-cross-posting/id6670288979

(via @janl)

The tragedy of cross posting across multiple social networks is that most don’t bother to give proper attribution to the appropriate accounts on each network.

It’s nice to use “Real Name” but it’s so much better and valuable to the author to use @​RealName.

Put our Harris/Walz sign up in the yard ✅

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24279020/browser-company-ai-browser-arc

(via @cassidoo)

this is validating and also what my therapist would call “negative reinforcement”—thank you @eric

Absolutely LOVE to see the new `fediverse:creator` tags showing up on shared URLs, providing automated attribution controlled by the source!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/

Incredible feature.

they said it better: https://floss.social/@be/113363249093358608

`alt="No alt text provided for this image"`

all accessibility audits passed ✅ good job everyone 🫠😬😭

we must *measure* web performance and not rely on how things *feel*—what are we even doing, y’all

this feels like the silliest most mundane thing to say

every time someone says that a web site “feels fast” you must append “on my device” to the statement and a dollar must be placed in the works-on-my-machine jar

Looks like it’s React Native’s StyleSheet: https://reactnative.dev/docs/stylesheet

(thank you @konnorrogers @jakelazaroff 🙌🏻)

Genuine question: does anyone know what CSS tool might be generating markup like this? A curious mixture of generated classes and inline styles.

fascinating that https://www.solidjs.com/ is *entirely* client-side rendered

developers say “the complexity of this task is out of scope” when they really mean “I don’t wanna”

someone filed an issue on an 11ty repo to get help with their slow astro build 😅

OSS is *wild* y’all

A great post from @avidlarge on the @cloudcannon blog—having revisions in your git history is a technically superior solution: more powerful, robust, and insulated from unnecessary drama.

https://cloudcannon.com/blog/content-is-sacred-so-own-your-revision-history/

we must unite, good and kindhearted developerspeople, against the balrog of corporate hackathons once more

we fought hard to vanquish the corporate hackathon in ages past but as prophecy has foretold they have returned—clawing back up from the depths of hell to claim many an unpaid hour of labor in service of insatiable marketing KPIs

Reading breaking changes in a JavaScript framework’s release notes and thinking about all of the web components I published that will just keep working without any upstream third-party maintenance burden.

Web components pay dividends.

if you aren’t involved in how it works, you’ll never truly appreciate it when it does

replaced the broken handle on my screen door yesterday and now I get good feels every time it smoothly latches shut

there is a larger lesson here, I think 😅

“aWesome Possum Engine”

I will never use the term “raw dogging” earnestly

web development is better than it’s ever been and browsing the web (with a stock web browser) is worse than it’s ever been

@lynnandtonic I need more No Thank You stickers but I don’t see them on your store—is there a universe where we can make some kind of deal here? it’s my favorite laptop sticker 😅

someone told me that nothing could have prepared me for this @cabel talk and I was still WHOLLY unprepared for this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df_K7pIsfvg

node can strip typescript types now—next step is to add support for stripping jsx—then maybe removing react and react-dom? what’s the ideal roadmap here

Put up the slides from my #WebUnleashed talk last week: https://www.zachleat.com/web/best-and-worst-of-eleventy/

when wordpress loses its sheen it speedruns a matte finish

me on your shoulder telling you to use web components 👼😈
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fitc/54064357173/in/album-72177720321189329

#WebUnleashed #FITC

Has anyone made a disclosure/content-warning/spoilers web component?

here, let me sum up the web components discussion for you

Reasonable people can agree that “trust your eyes” is not a robust nor repeatable nor scalable real-world method of measuring web performance, right?

…right?

The harmful anti-Web Components rhetoric from JavaScript framework authors is out of control. I almost prefer the React team’s tact of largely ignoring Web Components over this current environment of framework authors saying they “hate web components” and claiming that web components are a “danger to the future of the web.”

Had a ton of fun speaking and watching https://fitc.ca/event/webu24_inperson/ #WebUnleashed today—thank you for having me! I’ll post my slides when I get some time!

I’m at #WebUnleashed today! I have a few original @eleventy stickers with me, if you can find me

UUP Engine (pronounced double-U-P-Engine)

karaoke with the @FontAwesome team goes *hard*

After a bit of time on Vercel one of my favorite things is such a small improvement: zero-configuration `.cache` folder persistence between builds.

So nice not to have to set that up every time.

Related: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/deployment/#persisting-cache

me in ur replies

feels like we watched The Great Divide grow even bigger this past week, in real time

Who are some great people to follow if you’re looking to keep up-to-date on web components news and spec discussions?

I have a quick short-list so far but I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of great folks:

@nolan
@knowler
@westbrook
@claviska@mastodon.social
@leaverou
@konnorrogers
@justinfagnani
@keithamus
@scottjehl
@davatron5000

Just a casual reminder that Web Components are here to stay.

@timmywil I’m curious if jQuery has seen a web component compatibility maintenance burden?

🚾 Engine

has matt mullenweg weighed in on web components though

@developit blink twice if you think web component interop is problematic for preact 🫣🫠

if consensus was so easy, we’d all be using React

…wait

Just to be clear, a web standard for authoring components would not exist if it required consensus from popular JavaScript framework authors (and they probably wouldn’t be bothered by that that outcome either). The discussion needs to acknowledge that bias up-front.

JSX: yes
TypeScript: sure
CommonJS & ESM: no problem
Decorators: yeehaw
Web Components: how dare you, this is too much tooling overhead and complexity

some toots are just for me

one thing people don’t know about these don quixote windmill pinball machines is that they don’t even *have* a tilt sensor

you can tilt at those things *all day*

If your JavaScript framework doesn’t support web components, it doesn’t support the web platform.

“I have only suffered 999 cuts—I am fine”

`npm init -y; npm pkg set type="module";` works well enough—thank you @chrisw_b!

via https://social.chriswb.dev/@chrisw_b/statuses/01J8QQEH8DT5EWSYY3ZMJPGZ0G

Is there an easy way to make `npm init -y` add `"type": "module"` to the newly created package.json?

I’ll be at Web Unleashed in Toronto in just a few short weeks (Oct 10–11)!

(code `SPEAKERVIP` will snag you a discount to stream or an in-person ticket)

#WebUnleashed #fitc

https://webunleashed.ca/

this v3 docs PR is growing in both breadth and power

Shockwaves are hitting developers now as Matt appears to have disabled WP Engine’s access to the WordPress plugin repository https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fpeqn2/plugin_repository_inaccessible_to_wp_engine/

(via @collinsworth)

It’s a Node.js renaissance—seeing so many amazing contributions from @joyeecheung 🙌🙌🙌

With Automattic weaponizing their WordPress trademark against WP Engine, it’s a good day to challenge Oracle’s JavaScript trademark.

https://javascript.tm/

It’s giving late-stage silicon valley when the cease and desists are flying back and forth

PDF Link: https://automattic.com/2024/wp-engine-cease-and-desist.pdf

Slogging through the @eleventy docs to add ESM examples today 😫

via @andybaio https://bsky.app/profile/andy.baio.net/post/3l4ud6hswgk22

Wow, that WP Engine cease and desist is *next level* drama. Looks like Matt Mullenweg texted them to negotiate a fee or he would blow up their spot in his talk at WordCamp. WordPress community, fasten your seatbealts.

PDF Link: https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-Desist-Letter-to-Automattic-and-Request-to-Preserve-Documents-Sent.pdf

thus, pixel perfect ⇔ pixel evil

Q.E.D.

pixel perfect is the enemy of pixel good

the great thing about light and dark modes on web sites is that developers can apply poor color contrast in even more places

web hosts are like underwear, it’s good to change them every once in awhile

@jacob not sure if @jmhobbs does eggs or meat but might be able to help? (my partner has done eggs but not meat)

Doing some research into non-eval methods to dynamically execute JavaScript code in Node.js:

https://github.com/zachleat/node-eval-modules

Any other approaches? Caveats?

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

sure—I could make it a #private property but then it will have no power

finally adding an Eleventy.__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED property

Correction: “Amazon tells employees to return to office *at minimum* five days a week”

“I got into comedy to do comedy, which is weird I know.”

“But when you’re in Hollywood and you’re a comedian everybody wants you to do other things besides comedy.”

“They say ‘Alright you’re a stand-up comedian: Can you act? Can you write? Write us a script.’”

“They want me to do things related to comedy but not comedy. That’s not fair.”

“It’s as though I was a cook and I worked my ass off to become a good cook and they said: ‘Alright, you’re a cook—can you farm?’”

—Mitch Hedberg

📮 New post: Open Source Needs to be Financially Symbiotic

https://www.zachleat.com/web/symbiotic-open-source/

still thinking about this still from Snack Shack (2024) from yesterday

—it was *wild* to watch a movie set in Nebraska City, NE

A year later, Astro is sunsetting their Studio product https://astro.build/blog/goodbye-astro-studio/

Monetization is hard.
VC-funded monetization is much harder!

Republican lawmakers resoundingly call for the new acting director of the Secret Service to resign after Donald Trump absolutely bodied by Kamala Harris on the debate stage last night.

that JPEG-XL would work in macOS Preview before SVG is *wild*

(re: @stoyan’s post https://indieweb.social/@stoyan/113114635800850403)

I’ve only been following SVG support in macOS Preview for 11 years now https://www.zachleat.com/twitter/1483457650239102980/

my javascript analytics tells me that 100% of my visitors have javascript

@macdonst did https://js-naked-day.org/ die? 😭

why is it called JPEG XL if the images are smaller

“I’d agree with your point if you delivered it in a nicer way” is a centrist’s way of saying they prefer the harmony of the status quo over the mess of forward progress

“google glass enterprise edition 2” 👀