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I thought I was 6–20 until I counted: it was 34 😅

How many unique domains do y’all estimate you’ve purchased (all time, for yourself)?

took a long time, but I’ve finally retired the last of my “active” .io domains — a process I’ve wanted to finalize for *years.*

(11ty.io is still redirecting but very few folks use it any more, leaving room to hopefully disable it entirely https://www.11ty.dev/blog/moving-house/)

reminded of this one today, apropos of nothing

https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/111862796531800739

For me this also highlights the incredible sleight of hand that can occur when a metric swaps from lab to field data.

We need better web performance metrics.

Intuitively, these charts might tempt you to compare these hosts, making assumptions about the investment each of these services put into their server infrastructure — but that wouldn’t be the whole story.

Knowing that TTFB is both server AND client-dependent (including times for Service Worker init, DNS, TLS), this graph might instead represent how wealthy each service’s audience is.

Looks like the above was last updated in November 2024 but links to the HTTP Archive Tech Report for newer data: https://httparchive.org/reports/techreport/tech?good-cwv-over-time=TTFB&tech=Hostinger,SiteGround,WP+Engine,Shopify,GoDaddy+Website+Builder,Framer+Sites,GitHub+Pages,Squarespace,Vercel,Netlify,Seravo,Weebly,Pantheon,Fly.io,Kinsta&geo=ALL&rank=ALL#comparison-good-cwvs

Here’s a screenshot from 01 July 2025:

Is my host fast yet? is a web host TTFB (Time to First Byte) leaderboard: https://ismyhostfastyet.com/?client=mobile

remembering __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED today

if you’re going to paste multiple paragraphs of AI slop at least have the decency to make AI summarize it down to two words or less first (preferably zero words if possible)

WebC is a hard project to work on. It was the last thing I shipped before getting laid off a few years ago and unfortunately the project still reminds me of that. Returning to it and shipping a new version feels like some kinda growth and I’m happy about that.

https://neighborhood.11ty.dev/@11ty/115095741719941806

how often are wordpress sites needing recovery though

🚩🚩🚩 “site recovery” is one of the highest profile features listed on wordpress.com — yikes

It’s *wild* to me that Google Drive has no option to see how large a folder is on disk 😭

James Dobson is dead — and it should be known that he was an evil man that convinced an entire generation of evangelical parents that hitting their kids was not just okay, but necessary — so… bye

https://apnews.com/article/james-dobson-obituary-focus-on-family-51a9dbf50e26eaee2ac01d457e9d46aa

I suppose it’s a good thing I enjoy writing code 😅

The amount of code I’ve had to write because Node’s vm.Module isn’t stable 😭😭😭😭

I’ve just read the term “semi-deterministic” 😅

folks keep asking why the non-deterministic tools aren’t returning deterministic outputs, over and over again

Since the fire goes viral and folks never hear about the fire department, y’all might be interested to know that the original content for the US Constitution has been restored.

https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/114982482958968700

codebases can carry trauma — be careful out there

adding more WebC ESM support https://github.com/11ty/webc/pull/229

The most underrated code comment continues to be:

// Start here tomorrow

peak user experience implies the existence of (silicon) valley user experience

just checking in on the folks that said (years ago) that we needed to sacrifice user experience for developer productivity to see how their AI startups are doing now

Trying to sneak in some long overdue @11ty/webc maintenance before close of business 👀

Loving @jimniels’s navigation between his web site’s three subdomains.

Looks like an earlier version was documented here: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/consistent-nav-across-inconsistent-sites/

@ronikaufman (via @mrtnvh)

😍 https://ronikaufman.github.io/flexflex/ from @ronikaufman

sometimes we joke but a “fuse for software” seems like a really accurate metaphor for static builds:

https://aus.social/@bnut/114939273626640543

eww, no thank you

I wrote this saga up in blog post form: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/114913999540366417

One more entry in my epic date parsing adventure. I’ve shipped a breaking change to this library to ensure that all valid date strings supported in Eleventy v4 will be RFC 9557-compatible, ensuring friendliness with the standardized Temporal APIs coming to a JavaScript runtime near you. Our full test suite runs against both!

Read (a little) more: https://github.com/11ty/parse-date-strings/releases/tag/v2.0.0

is it too much to ask that a software dependency be:

1. fast
2. permissive open-source licensed
3. lightweight in bundle cost
4. lightweight in installation size
5. well-maintained
6. accurate
7. able to run in all of the marginally different JavaScript runtimes
8. human sourced to avoid ethical and future copyright issues with AI
9. use modern APIs and without vestigial polyfill bloat
10. use best progressive enhancement and accessibility practices

(what would you add?)

continued from https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/114870836413532617

and https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/3587

I really tried to avoid this one but unfortunately this is now something I maintain 😭 https://github.com/11ty/parse-date-strings

anyway if you do a Replit/Astronomer CEO crossover meme it’ll probably do numbers

Context: https://bsky.app/profile/lookitup.baby/post/3lufqktym522f

someone at Replit is adding “our AI probably won’t delete your production database any more” to their changelog release notes

ISO8601 context: https://ijmacd.github.io/iso8601/#2025-W01-1

Roadmap and ongoing work in the milestone here: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/milestone/46

For extra curious folks, the big ol’ PR to kick this off merged yesterday: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/pull/3858

we usually swim in alpha/canary releases for awhile, so don’t get too upgrade-happy here 😅

work has started on @11ty 4.0 👀

controversially: why can’t software be good?

I was very surprised to see date-fns weigh in at 40MB on disk (though it is very modular and tree-shakeable)

Researching ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 date parsing and found this excellent resource: https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

Tried a few packages to solve this problem (dayjs, date-fns, luxon, moment). Unfortunately they are either not accurate enough or very large 😭

Can anyone recommend a snail mail comic book subscription service?

In my 19 full-time professional years in this business there have been many eras in which very prominent web developers have argued “don’t worry about it” in discussions of web performance and time has *never* proven those arguments to have merit, even with continually improving network connections and hardware.

The web is diverse. Let’s keep it that way!

Did I attempt (unsuccessfully) to run the test suite in Safari on both Windows and Ubuntu via GitHub Actions? Yes, yes I did.

Saw some wild messaging from Apple in the Software Update app on an old MacBook — in fact the system was *not* up-to-date. Surfaced via a Google Chrome EOL message.

Got them switched over to the latest version of Firefox just fine 👀

The web should be for everyone (and not just on new hardware)

web components are usb-c
react is the lightning cable
thank you for coming to my ted talk

😅 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/70577

via @phy

getting blood drawn for a routine checkup and I’m the weird one for suggesting they take a little bit extra for the life extension guy?? not because he wouldn’t take it but because I’m too old? rude

sometimes release notes are like “we fixed this absolutely horrendous limitation that most folks didn’t know about until just now”

So thankful to the *excellent* work that @joyeecheung has done with Node.js!

Especially this: https://floss.social/@webhackfest/114699260646396693

feeling like chidi from the good place as I navigate the uncomfortable and complicated ethical implications of being the only moderator on my personal mastodon server as someone reports one of my posts to me

@jimniels oh my god I didn’t know your post went super viral, I’m so sorry

Thinking about a point that a few folks have made in the replies that “verifying humanity” reads as exclusionary or ableist. Huh — that’s caught me off guard so I will have to think on it for a bit — but I see the truth in it.

https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/114672071580843474

@jimniels how are you doing? I see some nasty replies in our mentions, just checking in on you