Is my host fast yet? is a web host TTFB (Time to First Byte) leaderboard: https://ismyhostfastyet.com/?client=mobile
Zach Leatherman 9 replies 7 likes3 reposts Original on Mastodon Zach Leatherman 9 replies 7 likes3 reposts Original on MastodonNew release: <is-land> v5.0.0
🏎️ Better performance
⛰️ Adds *more* browser support
🎪 Passive event listeners with `on:interaction`
✍️ Rename tag name or on:* attributes
🆕 Framework APIs
Build Awesome (11ty) 16 likes5 reposts Original on Bluesky@11ty/is-land@5.0.0
A framework independent partial hydration islands architecture implementation.
touching a react codebase 🤝 touching a microfiber cloth
Zach Leatherman 17 replies 36 likes2 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodonremembering __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED today
Zach Leatherman 2 replies 13 likes1 repost Original on Mastodon@11ty/eleventy-plugin-webc@0.12.0-beta.7
WebC support for Eleventy adds for Single File Web Components
@11ty/webc@0.12.0-beta.2
Single File Web Components
Yay! `import.meta.resolve` is coming to Vitest https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/pull/8493 🎉🎉🎉
Zach Leatherman 4 replies 22 likes1 repost Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodon@11ty/eleventy-img@7.0.0-alpha.2
Low level utility to perform build-time image transformations.
I think software should be good
Zach Leatherman 57 replies 170 likes34 reposts3 quotes Original on MastodonOriginal on BlueskyDid you know? 💡 Eleventy has an official plugin that shows your project’s output files organized by directory with file sizes and compile/render times shown? Compatible with Eleventy v1 and newer!
Build Awesome (11ty) 2 replies 27 likes4 reposts1 quote Original on Bluesky@11ty/eleventy-plugin-directory-output@1.0.2
Group and sort Eleventy’s verbose output by directory (and show file size with benchmarks)
@11ty/image-color@1.0.7
Small utility to efficiently fetch the colors from an image.
I remember what life was like before the App Store became the centralized gatekeeper to all non-web-software
Zach Leatherman 21 likes Original on Blueskyif 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)
Zach Leatherman 19 likes6 reposts Original on MastodonWebC 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.
Zach Leatherman 11 replies 63 likes5 reposts Original on MastodonFinally, it has happened: WebC has received some updates and a beta release of v0.12 is now available!
npm install @11ty/eleventy-plugin-webc@beta
Make sure you review the release notes for WebC v0.12 as there are some breaking changes with webc:type and webc:setup: github.com/11ty/webc/re...
Build Awesome (11ty) 6 likes1 repost Original on Blueskyhow often are wordpress sites needing recovery though
🚩🚩🚩 “site recovery” is one of the highest profile features listed on wordpress.com — yikes
Zach Leatherman 16 replies 21 likes3 reposts Original on MastodonAdded a lot more detail to my /uses/ timeline, including software/hardware/consumer gear. Interesting to see what stuff has lasted the longest.
Zach Leatherman 43 replies 56 likes5 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodon@11ty/eleventy-plugin-webc@0.12.0-beta.6
WebC support for Eleventy adds for Single File Web Components
@11ty/eleventy-plugin-webc@0.12.0-beta.5
WebC support for Eleventy adds for Single File Web Components
@11ty/eleventy-plugin-webc@0.12.0-beta.4
WebC support for Eleventy adds for Single File Web Components
@11ty/eleventy-plugin-bundle@3.0.7
Little bundles of code, little bundles of joy.
It’s *wild* to me that Google Drive has no option to see how large a folder is on disk 😭
Zach Leatherman 11 replies 11 likes1 repost Original on Mastodon@11ty/webc@0.12.0-beta.1
Single File Web Components
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
“When you help someone you help everyone” — Aunt May from Spider-Man
Zach Leatherman 3 replies 20 likes5 reposts Original on MastodonOriginal on BlueskyA note from my late Grandmother about Eleventy
Zach Leatherman 35 replies 130 likes31 reposts Original on MastodonOriginal on Bluesky@11ty/eleventy-plugin-vite@7.1.0-alpha.2
A plugin to use Vite as a development server and run Vite to postprocess your Eleventy build.
@11ty/eleventy-plugin-vite@7.1.0-alpha.1
A plugin to use Vite as a development server and run Vite to postprocess your Eleventy build.
I suppose it’s a good thing I enjoy writing code 😅
Zach Leatherman 2 replies 12 likes1 repost Original on MastodonThe amount of code I’ve had to write because Node’s vm.Module isn’t stable 😭😭😭😭
Zach Leatherman 6 replies 7 likes2 reposts Original on Mastodonimport-module-string@2.0.3
Use import('data:') and import(Blob) to execute arbitrary JavaScript strings
esm-import-transformer@3.0.5
Perform transformations on ESM import syntax (using import maps or to a dynamic import).
let’s watch as folks ask why the non-deterministic tools don’t return deterministic outputs over and over again — this is fun — we’re having fun and being productive
Zach Leatherman 3 replies 60 likes8 reposts Original on BlueskyI’ve just read the term “semi-deterministic” 😅
Zach Leatherman 3 replies 10 likes1 repost Original on Mastodonfolks keep asking why the non-deterministic tools aren’t returning deterministic outputs, over and over again
Zach Leatherman 5 replies 27 likes8 reposts Original on Mastodon“dad’s out in the garage tuning up his mustang personal web site again”
Zach Leatherman 3 replies 47 likes3 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodonit is with no regrets that I must inform you that my entire personality is now @simplebits.com merch
Zach Leatherman 11 replies 32 likes4 reposts Original on MastodonOriginal on Blueskynejsconf.com ❤️
Ten years ago today was the first NEJS Conf 🤯
Zach Leatherman 4 likes Original on Blueskyesm-import-transformer@3.0.4
Perform transformations on ESM import syntax (using import maps or to a dynamic import).
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.
Zach Leatherman 6 replies 20 likes7 reposts Original on Mastodoncodebases can carry trauma — be careful out there
Zach Leatherman 2 replies 13 likes2 reposts Original on Mastodonadding more WebC ESM support https://github.com/11ty/webc/pull/229
Zach Leatherman 2 replies 12 likes1 repost Original on Mastodonimport-module-string@2.0.2
Use import('data:') and import(Blob) to execute arbitrary JavaScript strings
The most underrated code comment continues to be:
// Start here tomorrow
Zach Leatherman 8 replies 36 likes6 reposts Original on Mastodon“sometimes its ok to just… not support things”
a common thing i've run into this week:
packages which exhaustively try to cover every possible edge case. but it turns out almost no consumer calls it in a way that would hit those cases
some are 1/4 of the size when you cut those out. sometimes its ok to just... not support things
Zach Leatherman 4 replies 30 likes4 reposts Original on BlueskyI anthropomorphized my pet rock to such a degree that we are now both hallucinating its sentience
Zach Leatherman 13 replies 60 likes11 reposts Original on MastodonOriginal on BlueskyEleventy Leaderboards №30 Winners
11ty.dev/speedlify/
🥇 11ty.rocks from @5t3ph.bsky.social
🥈 www.victoriacutting.co.uk from Dan Urbanowicz
🥉 sia.codes from @sia.codes
Using Lighthouse v12.8.1 and speedlify.dev
Build Awesome (11ty) 9 likes2 reposts1 quote Original on Blueskypeak user experience implies the existence of (silicon) valley user experience
Zach Leatherman 11 likes1 repost Original on Mastodonjust 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
Zach Leatherman 3 replies 23 likes1 repost Original on Mastodon(now with fixed OG image, thank you @cassidoo.co 😅)
Zach Leatherman 4 likes Original on BlueskyOne weird trick to reduce @11ty Image Build Times by 60%
https://www.zachleat.com/web/faster-builds-with-eleventy-img/
Zach Leatherman 12 replies 50 likes15 reposts1 quote Original on MastodonOriginal on BlueskyNew leaderboards results have been posted! www.11ty.dev/speedlify/
Build Awesome (11ty) 10 replies 13 likes1 repost1 quote Original on Blueskyjust completed the official @fontawesome.com LEGO logo sets!
Zach Leatherman 9 replies 25 likes1 repost Original on Blueskyperformance-leaderboard@12.8.1
A plugin to run Lighthouse against a set of urls to see which site is the fastest.
Trying to sneak in some long overdue @11ty/webc maintenance before close of business 👀
Zach Leatherman 5 replies 27 likes1 repost Original on MastodonEleventy Syntax Highlighter (Prism) release v5.0.2 fixes a bug with `diff-` languages: github.com/11ty/elevent...
@11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight@5.0.2
Prism.js based syntax highlighting for Markdown, Liquid, Nunjucks, WebC, and 11ty.js templates.
@11ty/eleventy@4.0.0-alpha.4
A simpler static site generator.
@11ty/client@4.0.0-alpha.4
Run Eleventy in your browser.
some folks do want to do maintenance, apparently
Zach Leatherman 16 likes Original on Blueskythere’s something extremely rewarding about improving and iterating on a codebase for *years*
Zach Leatherman 31 replies 169 likes10 reposts1 quote Original on MastodonOriginal on Bluesky@11ty/eleventy-dev-server@3.0.0-alpha.3
A minimal, modern, generic, hot-reloading local web server to help web developers.
www.11ty.dev is now running Eleventy v4 alpha
AROUND HERE WE TEST IN PRODUCTION (and also test on staging, previews, local, unit and integration tests in 12 different environments and JavaScript runtimes, but you get the idea)
Build Awesome (11ty) 13 likes1 repost1 quote Original on Blueskywell, I was brave and shipped https://www.zachleat.com/ building with Eleventy v4.0.0!
Shipped some of the very first @11ty.dev v4.0.0 canaries today — for only the bravest early adopters (for now) but we’re iterating!
v4.0.0-alpha.3 is only 16.2 MB on disk (down from 21.MB for v3.1.2!)
Milestone: github.com/11ty/elevent...
Releases: github.com/11ty/elevent...
Zach Leatherman 20 replies 50 likes9 reposts Original on MastodonOriginal on Bluesky@11ty/eleventy@4.0.0-alpha.3
A simpler static site generator.
@11ty/client@4.0.0-alpha.3
Run Eleventy in your browser.
@11ty/eleventy@4.0.0-alpha.2
A simpler static site generator.
@11ty/client@4.0.0-alpha.2
Run Eleventy in your browser.
@11ty/eleventy@4.0.0-alpha.1
A simpler static site generator.
@11ty/client@4.0.0-alpha.1
Run Eleventy in your browser.
@11ty/eleventy-dev-server@3.0.0-alpha.2
A minimal, modern, generic, hot-reloading local web server to help web developers.
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/
Zach Leatherman 4 replies 10 likes2 reposts Original on Mastodon@ronikaufman (via @mrtnvh)
Zach Leatherman 2 replies 7 likes2 reposts Original on Mastodonsometimes we joke but a “fuse for software” seems like a really accurate metaphor for static builds:
@11ty/eleventy-dev-server@3.0.0-alpha.1
A minimal, modern, generic, hot-reloading local web server to help web developers.
for resiliency and redundant fallback make sure you have more than one single point of failure in your software stack
Zach Leatherman 8 replies 89 likes34 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodon@11ty/parse-date-strings@2.0.5
Parsing content date strings in Eleventy core.
nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana superman
Zach Leatherman 2 replies 12 likes Original on Blueskyeww, no thank you
Zach Leatherman 15 replies 18 likes1 repost Original on Mastodondo not write your own date parsing library
Do not lick batteries.
— U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (July 25, 2025 at 3:36:21 PM UTC)
Zach Leatherman 13 replies 63 likes3 reposts1 quote Original on BlueskyNever write your own date parsing library
@11ty/font-awesome@1.0.0-beta.12
Optimized per-page tree-shaken SVG spritesheets for Eleventy.
I wrote this saga up in blog post form: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/114913999540366417
Never write your own Date Parsing Library (I wrote my own Date Parsing Library)
Zach Leatherman 67 replies 138 likes37 reposts4 quotes Original on MastodonOriginal on Bluesky@11ty/parse-date-strings@2.0.4
Parsing content date strings in Eleventy core.
@11ty/parse-date-strings@2.0.3
Parsing content date strings in Eleventy core.
@11ty/parse-date-strings@2.0.2
Parsing content date strings in Eleventy core.
@11ty/parse-date-strings@2.0.1
Parsing content date strings in Eleventy core.
(by @jennschiffer.com)
Build Awesome (11ty) 1 reply 12 likes1 quote Original on BlueskyEleventy Meetup Ep.25 is happening today!
★ How I added structured data to my personal website and blog — @kajkandler.bsky.social
★ Deploying 11ty Automatically — @mwdelaney.me
Build Awesome (11ty) 10 likes4 reposts Original on BlueskyOne 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
Zach Leatherman 7 replies 15 likes3 reposts Original on Mastodon@11ty/parse-date-strings@2.0.0
Parsing content date strings in Eleventy core.