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1. Eric Portis 3 min later

   @zachleat me when someone says to use fewer images: 🎭

   1. Eric Portis 4 min later

      @zachleat i truly believe in the unique power of visual communication but some of you are just so bad at it???

      1. Zach Leatherman 10 min later

         @eeeps hahahaha

      2. Nicolas Hoizey 1 hr later

         @eeeps related: I just added ˋeleventy-img` to an existing site, which helped convert some 6MB JPEGs to 60KB WebPs without changing anything visually. 😍

         Looking forward to use 11ty v3 with the transform version.

         @zachleat

2. Zach Leatherman 10 min later

   2012, 2020, 2024 😅 https://www.zachleat.com/twitter/1339584224165199873/

   1. elomatreb 🚂 12 min later

      @zachleat Their "austerity" sounds pretty good ngl

      1. Zach Leatherman 13 min later

         @elomatreb I believe that was quoted from a blog post written by the CEO of Vercel, iirc

   2. Stuart Langridge 26 min later

      @zachleat "oh no, here comes something wrong! what can I do about it?"
      "You can just give in and do the wrong thing yourself. Or you can turn your back on everything and live in a cave like a hermit so it doesn't affect you. That's it."
      "Why is that it? Can't I, y'know... fight back? Try to make things better somehow?"
      "No. Cave, or cave. Those are your only two choices."

      What a depressing way to think.

      1. Zach Leatherman 28 min later

         @sil I think I titled this post after reading it 😅 https://www.zachleat.com/web/eleventy-image/

3. Ethan Marcotte 12 min later

   @zachleat literally me on this redesign

   inner wolf #1: wow i love thinking about perf as a design consideration
   inner wolf #2: but but but my lovely fonts

   1. Zach Leatherman 13 min later

      @beep they are lovely ethan and they deserve a chance to prove themselves

      1. Mia [data-css=poetic] 27 min later

         @zachleat @beep variable fonts don't weigh anything anyway they're magic

         1. Zach Leatherman 30 min later

            @mia @beep they are built on unicorns and rainbows and dreams

            1. Erik Kroes ✅ 37 min later

               @zachleat @mia @beep deep dreams? 😬

         2. Roel Nieskens 30 min later

            @mia @zachleat @beep Only when the weight axis goes all the way to 0 though

            1. Zach Leatherman 32 min later

               @pixelambacht @mia @beep this made me legitimately giggle 🏆

            2. Chris Lilley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 1 hr later

               @pixelambacht @mia @zachleat @beep Why stop there? Negative weights must be how designers implement that "negative space" they are always going on about.

         3. Ethan Marcotte 36 min later

            @mia @zachleat ah you’ve been speaking to inner wolf #3 i see

            1. Eaton 1 hr later

               @beep @mia @zachleat maybe we have one wolf but the wolf has many axis

               1. Ethan Marcotte 1 hr later

                  @eaton @mia @zachleat eaton

                  1. Ethan Marcotte 1 hr later

                     @eaton @mia @zachleat (VERY good thank u)

   2. Mike Aparicio 37 min later

      @beep @zachleat If I can’t use Papyrus AND Mistral, what’s the point?

      1. Ethan Marcotte 38 min later

         @peruvianidol @zachleat many people are saying this!!

      2. Zach Leatherman 38 min later

         @peruvianidol @beep you’re making me rethink everything, mike

4. Roel Nieskens 57 min later

   @zachleat When IFT lands, we can serve the initial webfont with just the space character. It'll be a 300 byte WOFF2. People will marvel at how lean it is, and how fast it loads. PageSpeed score is 107%! The rest of the font, at 200KB, plops into place on a second round trip to the server, but no one notices.

   (This started out as a joke and now I scared myself into thinking this is what folks are actually gonna do 🙀)

   1. Zach Leatherman 58 min later

      @pixelambacht shhh—don’t give them any reason not to ship it 😅

5. Braw ☕🏳️‍🌈 1 hr later

   @zachleat I love when web developers are very serious about minification and ‘minify’ their fonts while their sites have support for many other languages and now these languages all use system's Arial and Segoe UI instead 😍