Nexodus Archive

	Since	posts	replies	likes	reposts and quotes	views
Bluesky	May 2023	1,039	8,236	23,127	2,380
Mastodon	Nov 2022	2,399	29,156	55,396	16,820
GitHub	Jul 2010	179	5,777 3,520	33,866	3,317
npm	Jul 2014	139	1,546			75,991,720
YouTube	Dec 2015	30		1,203		32,713
Letterboxd	Mar 2026	55
Blog	Nov 2025	20
Hacker News	Jan 2011	59	575	802
All	Jul 2010	4,807	37,967	114,394	22,517	76,024,433

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?)

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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

@11ty/parse-date-strings@1.0.0

Parsing content date strings in Eleventy core.

11ty/parse-date-strings

Parsing content date strings in Eleventy core.

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featuring such gems as “An ISO week-numbering year has 52 or 53 full weeks. That is 364 or 371 days instead of the usual 365 or 366 days.”

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the ISO week date syntax is cursed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_wee...

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

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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

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

babe wake up a new Mitt Romney Web Font Problem just dropped www.zachleat.com/web/mitt-rom...

tfw the hover state kinda changes the story 😆
@theguardian.com

— Eli Schutze (July 21, 2025 at 1:16:39 PM UTC)

"2025-W01-1" is December 30, 2024

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

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

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

work has started on @11ty 4.0 👀

@11ty/package-bundler@0.4.2

Internal package to build bundles (using esbuild) for use in various environments

@11ty/package-bundler@0.4.1

Internal package to build bundles (using esbuild) for use in various environments

@11ty/package-bundler@0.4.0

Internal package to build bundles (using esbuild) for use in various environments

controversially: why can’t software be good?

an OSS maintainer’s need to immediately determine whether a conversation with a colleague is reporting a bug or just, like, a friendly hello

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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 😭

every cam at the kiss concert is a kiss cam

Can anyone recommend a snail mail comic book subscription service?

@11ty/package-bundler@0.3.0

Internal package to build bundles (using esbuild) for use in various environments

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!

etch.co moved from Next.js to 11ty and decreased their npm dependency count from 1115 to 13! 🤯

“It feels like the tooling has gotten out of the way, and the website is just a website again ❤️”

etch.co/blog/we-migr...

employers graciously offering the choice between returning to the office or wearing a company apple airtag

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

Setting up some automated tests for Eleventy using Vitest’s Browser Mode today.

htmlforpeople.com is #BuiltWithEleventy 🏆

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)

The Translated Hugo Initiative is #BuiltWithEleventy 🏆

Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come.
translatedhugo.org

— Translated Hugo Initiative (July 3, 2025 at 9:54:13 PM UTC)

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

@11ty/package-bundler@0.2.1

Internal package to build bundles (using esbuild) for use in various environments

@11ty/package-bundler@0.2.0

Internal package to build bundles (using esbuild) for use in various environments

import.meta.resolve can make it easier to passthrough copy assets from node_modules.

Future improvements: github.com/11ty/elevent...

@11ty/package-bundler@0.1.1

Internal package to build bundles (using esbuild) for use in various environments

@11ty/package-bundler@0.1.0

Internal package to build bundles (using esbuild) for use in various environments

11ty/package-bundler

Internal package to build bundles (using esbuild) for use in various environments

@11ty/gray-matter@2.0.0

Parse front-matter from a string or file. Fast, reliable and easy to use. Parses YAML front matter by default, but also has support for YAML, JSON, TOML Front-Matter, with options to set custom delimiters. Used by metalsmith, assemble, verb and many other

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

via @phy

if you don’t enjoy this — maybe we shouldn’t be friends

I've referenced it enough that now it's all I can hear when I read it. Now you have to hear it too 🙉 ericwbailey.website/published/yo...

— Eric Bailey (June 30, 2025 at 2:44:10 PM UTC)

shout out to GitHub’s ?tab=readme-ov-file

Thanks to Kilian Finger, Eleventy’s @vite.dev Plugin v7 is now available!

github.com/11ty/elevent...

@11ty/eleventy-img@7.0.0-alpha.1

Low level utility to perform build-time image transformations.

@11ty/eleventy-plugin-rss@3.0.0-alpha.2

Generate an Atom, RSS, or JSON feed with Eleventy.

unbreaking.org is #BuiltWithEleventy 🏆

We've published six pages at Unbreaking.org now, about what's happening in six quite different areas of American life as a result of Trump admin and congressional actions: Equality in the Workplace, Food Safety, Medicaid, Medical Research Funding, the Postal Service, and Trans Healthcare.

— Erin Kissane (June 6, 2025 at 8:53:27 PM UTC)

it feels important to keep saying: SPA as an app framework default (and not an opt-in feature) was a mistake

I truly believe that the desire to automate your new computer setup is a symptom of trauma

Monetizing frameworks is incredibly difficult given the incentives and more of your favorite VC-funded frameworks are going to repeat this playbook, unfortunately

what was the point of Netlify acquiring Gatsby? did they get a lot of cloud customers or something? did Gatsby have valuable stuff beyond the framework that got incorporated into Netlify business? what was the point of pretending the project isn’t getting killed when essentially it was? just curious

— dan (June 15, 2025 at 1:59:24 PM UTC)

performance-leaderboard@12.7.0

A plugin to run Lighthouse against a set of urls to see which site is the fastest.

@11ty/eleventy-plugin-vite@7.0.0

A plugin to use Vite as a development server and run Vite to postprocess your Eleventy build.

it would be super cool if @npmjs.bsky.social added this! bsky.app/profile/tobi...

🦀 crates.io might get OpenGraph images for each crate soon: github.com/rust-lang/cr... ✨

#rustlang

— Tobias Bieniek (June 26, 2025 at 2:41:05 PM UTC)

maybe I’m being sensitive but I’m giving a bit of a side eye to deno.com stating that it’s “Backwards compatible with Node.js”

The version history on the docs now includes prereleases too: www.11ty.dev/docs/versions/

Eleventy v3.1.2 is now available: github.com/11ty/elevent...

@11ty/eleventy@3.1.2

A simpler static site generator.

@11ty/eleventy@3.1.2-beta.4

A simpler static site generator.

we fully admit that our plagiarism machine deprives artists of credit and compensation but you have to admit that it’s an entirely different phenomenon with open source software authors because they have never received credit or compensation

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

performance-leaderboard@12.6.0

A plugin to run Lighthouse against a set of urls to see which site is the fastest.

Beta channel release: v3.1.2-beta.3 (bug fix release) github.com/11ty/elevent...

@11ty/eleventy@3.1.2-beta.3

A simpler static site generator.

briefcases are grown-up trapper keepers

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we still allow this for postal service junk mail for some reason (the reason is money)

a public box on the end of a public address that anyone can send physical objects to?? wild

I recently explained fax machines to my 7 y/o and looking back — what an incredibly wild concept:

public printers on the end of a *public* phone number that anyone could send anything to — any everyone just went along with it?

New beta release: v3.1.2-beta.2 (includes a bug fix for internal caches on custom template syntaxes) github.com/11ty/elevent...

@11ty/eleventy@3.1.2-beta.2

A simpler static site generator.

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

From the community: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_bY...

Thank you @vkc.sh!

New core beta release v3.1.2-beta.1 is available for testing now (bug fixes only): github.com/11ty/elevent...

@11ty/eleventy@3.1.2-beta.1

A simpler static site generator.

@11ty/recursive-copy@4.0.2

A fork of `recursive-copy`: Simple, flexible file copy utility

if it “just works” likely someone worked very hard to make it so

I went out to try to improve society, somewhat. #NoKings

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

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@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

maybe as a society we should spend less time “Verifying that you are a human” and more time “Verifying your humanity”

Feedback welcome on a proposed option to override the project root in Eleventy, please weigh in if you have opinions! github.com/11ty/elevent...

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anyway, I’m sure training models on any and all source code will be fine — don’t worry about it

“Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism. Piracy is piracy, and whether an infringing image or video is made with AI or another technology does not make it any less infringing” — Disney and Universal

https://apnews.com/article/disney-universal-midjourney-copyright-lawsuit-722b1b892192e7e1628f7ae5da8cc427

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Some really insightful quotes in this thread: bsky.app/profile/matt...

“Good design is as complex as possible.”
— Dieter Rams

— Matthias Ott (June 11, 2025 at 9:51:47 PM UTC)

import-module-string@2.0.1

Use import('data:') and import(Blob) to execute arbitrary JavaScript strings

import-module-string@2.0.0

Use import('data:') and import(Blob) to execute arbitrary JavaScript strings

you know what this system needs? more complexity

Surfacing a hidden feature in Eleventy’s Bundle Plugin: `bundleHtmlContentFromSelector` to bundle HTML content!

`bundleHtmlContentFromSelector: "style"` to bundle <style> nodes or "script" to bundle <script> nodes.

www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins...

Example: github.com/11ty/elevent...

“Mikeal approached every project with the conviction that open source is not a license but a promise to lift others”

https://b.h4x.zip/mikeal/

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with the power of editing, we can pretend like this didn’t happen

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I’m somehow now realizing that I completely botched this reference and no one called me on it.

summarizing the discourse today

How to import() a JavaScript String

https://www.zachleat.com/web/dynamic-import/

(📮 a new blog post from me)

This 88×31 #BuiltWithEleventy animated badge from @chrisburnell.com is only 3KB!

chrisburnell.com/note/elevent...

The Emoji Periodic Table is #BuiltWithEleventy 🏆

emoji.shadycharacters.co.uk

via mastodon.social/@shadychars/...

SVG Favicons and CSS Anchor Positioning are two big wins shipping in Safari 26 Beta: https://webkit.org/blog/16993/news-from-wwdc25-web-technology-coming-this-fall-in-safari-26-beta/