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1. Ethan Marcotte 3 min later

   @zachleat i just saw the phrase “view source aesthetic” and suddenly my laptop was floating down the charles river, what is even happening over there

   1. Zach Leatherman 7 min later

      @beep I have altered the abstraction, pray I do not alter it any further

      1. Ethan Marcotte 17 min later

         @zachleat as if millions of sub-3G network connections suddenly cried out and were suddenly silenced

         1. Zach Leatherman 23 min later

            @beep congrats to all my Empire friends, just seeing that the Death Star raised a new Series A round of $4.2T!!

            1. Ethan Marcotte 34 min later

               @zachleat okay this one made me need to sit down (and i was already sitting down)

               1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

                  @beep …stormtroopers union

                  (sorry)

                  1. Ethan Marcotte 1 hr later

                     @zachleat no space cops in labor

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2. Mia [data-css=poetic] 14 min later

   @zachleat sadly, without logging in, there is no exchange.

   1. Zach Leatherman 16 min later

      @mia ah, sorry I’ll add a screenshot.

      1. Mia [data-css=poetic] 29 min later

         @zachleat Thanks!

3. Zach Leatherman 20 min later

   anyway, here’s Eleventy’s version in two commands:

   echo '# Page header' > index.md
   npx @11ty/eleventy

   and the output is `<h1>Page header</h1>`

   1. Random Geek 31 min later

      @zachleat thanks for doing your part to keep honest to god web site building alive

      1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

         @randomgeek I like building web sites and I would like to keep doing it more please 😅

         1. Evan B🥥ehs 1 hr later

            @zachleat @randomgeek I didn't make the website, the website made me

   2. Mu-An 20 hr later

      @zachleat where does a template(+/static css/assets) get factored in in this command? I thought it was more complicated than that the last time I tried to use it.

      1. Zach Leatherman 21 hr later

         @muan markdown files are preprocessed with liquid by default

4. Marijke Luttekes 33 min later

   @zachleat This post makes me feel feelings that I cannot express adequately.

5. Chris Ferdinandi 43 min later

   @zachleat 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

6. phae 2 hr later

   @zachleat just saw this and thought of you.

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @phae just saw this and thought of that

   2. Thomas Michael Semmler 4 days later

      @phae @zachleat omg is this real?!

7. Mike Aparicio 3 hr later

   @zachleat This broke my fucking brain. All that to build something that looks like the first web page ever made. 🤦🏻‍♂️

   1. Zach Leatherman 4 hr later

      @peruvianidol AI will save us from this complexity, mike

8. GoOz 4 hr later

   @zachleat I’m astonished by the lack of people answering how messed up it is to use React for one freaking simple & obviously static website.

   1. Vesa / Merri / メレリ 6 hr later

      @GoOz @zachleat Although React is messed up to use for anything these days.

      It made some sense for a SPA where you can pay the relatively big size of the thing, but now it is all about RSC, and NextJS doesn't help with pushing alpha quality stuff for production use where basic things like CSS is not loading for dynamic imports when using App Router which they now recommend despite still not working for everything.

   2. Григорий Клюшников 4 days later

      GoOz, having watched this, I don't understand why anyone would use React for anything. Want a blog or a "business card" website or something for docs for your project? Use a static site generator like Hugo. Want something dynamic? Build a server application with any stack you like and render your pages server-side. (this comment was proudly served to you by such a server application)

9. Baldur Bjarnason 4 days later

   @zachleat I made the mistake of clicking through and reading the full thread. Dear lord. 😅

   1. Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta 5 days later

      @baldur @zachleat is there a way to read the thread without an account?

10. nrk 5 days later

    @zachleat comedy/drama

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