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RIP Dolly. Our family just went to Dollywood *three weeks ago* and we got a little first-hand taste of the impact she’s had on the world.

332M books donated through her Imagination Library: https://imaginationlibrary.com/

there needs to be a Web Performance Razzie Award for corporate websites

anyway it should be interesting to see this category fill in with data today https://www.speedlify.dev/group/builders/

our tool helps *you* make fast websites — this very slow marketing website we built with it will explain everything

One more fun bit here: speedlify measures speedlify (and measured it before and after the move to speedlify2!)

https://www.speedlify.dev/site/www-speedlify-dev/

This version takes great care to maintain backwards compatibility with any existing <speedlify-score> components using speedlify.dev as their upstream data source. Let me know if you see issues!

A little sneak peek at some very big updates to `speedlify` (just kidding they’re live): https://www.speedlify.dev/

Decoupled measure step from rank so that it runs continuously & incrementally. Ranks sites on CWV field data and Axe violations.

This is the new home for the @11ty Leaderboards.

Did Netlify change their default trailing slashes (Pretty URLs) configuration? I’m not seeing canonical redirects to trailing slashes (which I want) any more.

Wrote this up a few years ago (is this info is wrong now?): https://www.zachleat.com/web/trailing-slash/

Proposal: should we add a new `parseDateString` universal filter?

https://github.com/11ty/buildawesome/issues/4346

Feedback welcome!

🤝 From the desk of @justsnook: “I Added Syntax Highlighting Using the 11ty PrismJS Plugin”

https://snook.ca/everything/syntax-highlighting/

New pre-release of Dev Server: v3.0.0-alpha.11 features some lovely dependency reduction work from @tmcw 🙌🏻

Dependency package count reduced from 31 to 22 (-9)
Disk weight reduced from 2.1 MB to 1.7MB (-20.8%)

https://github.com/11ty/dev-server/releases/tag/v3.0.0-alpha.11

“I don’t buy every single new technology being sold as democratizing, and then what we mean by democratizing is that a different set of people have power now.”—@mia

Some great conversation with @brad_frost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do380FZrJTc

If you rely on YAML front matter timestamp (date) parsing in your projects (outside of the special `date` property that informs content dates), you’ll want to review this `canary` breaking change: https://github.com/11ty/buildawesome/issues/4333

Please weigh in with feedback!

https://learneleventy.dev/ is a great resource from @uncenter! #BuiltAwesome

(complimentary)

without question @jordan is the undisputed greatest LinkedIn shitposter of all time — and second place isn’t even close

in an alternate universe they did <input type="select"><option></input>

https://oleandrum.github.io/dakshinamurti-stotram/ is #BuiltAwesome by @oleandrum

New release: Import v2.0.1

Bug fix for <code> import as Markdown, dependency upgrades, Node minimum bump to v20.19+

https://github.com/11ty/import/releases/tag/v2.0.1

has anyone made a website that emulates touching grass

https://f26rm.ryancordell.org/ is #BuiltAwesome 🏆 by @ryancordell

Did you know? Eleventy v3 shipped with JavaScript front matter built-in (no plugin or extra config needed!)

Use ---js to enable it. Easier than a separate JavaScript data file!

Learn more: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/data-frontmatter/#java-script-front-matter

https://varun.ch/ is #BuiltAwesome by Varun Biniwale

https://www.htmhell.dev/ is #BuiltAwesome 🏆 by @matuzo

🤝 From the desk of @uncenter: “My new Learn Eleventy course”

https://uncenter.dev/posts/learn-eleventy-update/

who said personal websites needed to be professional

Add support for Drafts (in-progress content) using this five line config. This includes draft content during --serve or --watch but not with a regular build!

Learn more: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/config-preprocessors/

https://www.joshcanhelp.com/ is #BuiltAwesome by Josh Cunningham

what is the worst html element? right answers only

Did you know? Your robots.txt, 404 page, or sitemap.xml don't need to be files in your project. Virtual templates let you generate any output file via config (or plugin).

Read more: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/virtual-templates/

<hyper-card> v2.0.3 shipped with new glow color option thanks to @chriskirknielsen!

https://github.com/zachleat/hypercard

New release: Image Color v2.0.0

Fetch colors from any image for theming! Makes use of the new Image v7 release internally.

https://github.com/11ty/image-color/releases/tag/v2.0.0

New v2.0.0 release of our Browsersync plugin (for folks not using the newer Dev Server): https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-server-browsersync/releases/tag/v2.0.0

https://unsung.aresluna.org/seeing-like-a-state/ by @mwichary has lovely examples highlighting usability issues with toggle controls.

Is the toggle on when the circle is on the left or right? How about when the background is dark? …in a dark mode theme?

I might suggest text that says On/Off 🫣

Am I neglecting my open source projects? Is this still being maintained??

New on the blog: https://www.zachleat.com/web/is-this-still-being-maintained/

was on vacation last week, what did I miss

STABLE RELEASE KLAXON

Image 🖼️ v7.0.0

Release: https://github.com/11ty/image/releases/tag/v7.0.0
Docs: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/image/

Huge memory usage improvements 🎉

Thank you: @djenz, @sentience, Kirthi Balakrishnan, Valadaptive, Jorn Mineur

https://mattdoane.com/ is a personal web site #BuiltAwesome by Matt Doane 🏆

We are only 196 stars away from 20k stars on GitHub: https://github.com/11ty/buildawesome

Have you starred Build Awesome (11ty) yet?

Pre-release for testing: Image v7.0.0-alpha.5

So many performance improvements and fixes!

https://github.com/11ty/image/releases/tag/v7.0.0-alpha.5

Thank you to: Kirthi Balakrishnan, @djenz, Jorn Mineur

Avatar Aang is *well* worth your time (even if you’re only marginally interested in the series): https://boxd.it/B1BK

Is this still being maintained?? A little (big?) list of my open source projects sorted by how much they’re being neglected (descending).

https://www.zachleat.com/projects/

30k GitHub stars.
5.7M npm downloads last month.
4.7k issues closed and 2.8k PRs closed 🤯

WordPress updates required: https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-0-2-release/

> The attack has no preconditions and can be exploited by an anonymous user in a stock install of WordPress with no plugins — https://slcyber.io/research-center/wp2shell-pre-authentication-rce-in-wordpress-core/

do you want to keep daylight saving time or double it and give it to the next person

LinkedIn’s API is absolutely wild — how many hoops do I gotta jump through to get an API key that posts to my LinkedIn page?

I was curious what the red/yellow cards used in the World Cup would look like with color vision deficiency (Protanopia shown).

Seems like a player could be shown a card and not know the color. Does it matter with sufficient contrast and only 2 cards?

Could be easily solved by adding a symbol to the card or by having two different shapes.

Just randomly stumbled onto a web site that gave a shout out to Bigtext 🤯 https://github.com/zachleat/BigText

https://hiphopquoted.com/about/

Shipped hyper-card@2.0.2 with a lovely visual improvement from @chriskirknielsen https://github.com/zachleat/hypercard

react has been doing hydration breaks since 2013

Some minor housekeeping: our `11ty-website` repo on GitHub has been renamed to `docs`: https://github.com/11ty/docs

A new Build Awesome (Eleventy) alpha is available for testing:

🥷 Using our fully async-friendly Nunjucks fork
🎁 Includes updated Bundle Plugin

https://github.com/11ty/buildawesome/releases/tag/v4.0.0-alpha.9

📊 17 fewer dependencies than 3.1.6 (-14%)
📉 6 MB smaller than 3.1.6 (-39%)

Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013.

To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS, Atom, JSON or equivalent feed to your web site and keep building towards a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.

GitHub Releases [11ty/nunjucks]: Nunjucks v4.0.0-alpha.3 FULL ASYNC
https://github.com/11ty/nunjucks/releases/tag/v4.0.0-alpha.3

Just to be clear: we forked Nunjucks.

https://github.com/11ty/nunjucks/

A big ol’ maintenance pre-release of Nunjucks reduces library dependencies to 0, audits to 0, install size by 566 kB (828 to 262):

https://github.com/11ty/nunjucks/releases/tag/v4.0.0-alpha.2

Coming soon to a canary release near you.

Nunjucks maintenance is happening: https://github.com/11ty/nunjucks/releases/tag/v4.0.0-alpha.2

Maintainence task: our docs on 11ty.dev have moved from clean-css to LightningCSS — excited to make use of CSS nesting!

https://lightningcss.dev/

20s: I can be everything, everywhere, at all times
30s: I can be everything, in many places, but not all the time
40s: I can be a few things, in a few places, occasionally

left a workout video running on loop and went to eat pizza #AgenticExercise

Really great to see `docusaurus` picking up some @11ty deps: https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/12181

Build Awesome and Eleventy v4.0.0-alpha.8 are now available for testing!

https://github.com/11ty/buildawesome/releases/tag/v4.0.0-alpha.8

Using staged publish for extra security, the new Build Awesome package, and batched incremental builds! Try it out!

Upcoming npm v12 will disable preinstall, install, and postinstall scripts from dependencies unless allow-listed.

You can prepare for this change using npm v11 now: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/198547

The big ol’ pull request for Build Awesome (Eleventy): https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/pull/4294

Full compatibility with Eleventy and @11ty/eleventy! Shipping soon to a canary channel near you.

can we ban social media for politicians

does anyone else mourn the loss of a favorite tree

glyphhanger v6.0.0

https://github.com/zachleat/glyphhanger/releases/tag/v6.0.0

Eleventy Core v3.1.6 fixes `module.register` deprecation warning shown in console when using Node v26.

https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.1.6

run for political office in the midwest without wearing a carhartt jacket on the campaign trail challenge (impossible)

Starting to dip my toes into comic books — starting with Saga, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Maus, Invincible.

Any others that are must-reads?