1. use this web component, it has zero dependencies, weighs 4KB, shipped in 2018—still works great

2. OR, you can use this react component—it has many dependencies, requires a transpiler, weighs 200KB+, uses outdated react best practices from 3 months ago

you gotta choose #2, right? otherwise they’re gonna make fun of you

If there are other expenses that folks think are good candidates for consolidation—please let us know! Happy to cover these

11ty Meetup followers...

Zach agreed to fund the 11ty meetup within 11ty. I donated our remaining Open Collective balance into the main 11ty one and archived ours.

All recurring donations are now cancelled (thanks Cory D and @bobmonsour.com !)

To donate to us in future, just donate to 11ty!

— Sia Karamalegos (December 2, 2024 at 6:18:21 PM UTC)

whew, this post shows that bad actors are taking advantage of the perceived credibility of custom domain usernames to impersonate very popular accounts using .bsky.social usernames 😭 bsky.app/profile/trik...

.@mantzarlis.com: 44% of the top 100 most followed individuals on BlueSky have a doppelganger account...the verification-by-domain feature is an imperfect solution, with one dupe creating a fake but credible-looking website to support their impersonator account. fakedup.substack.com/p/blueskys-d...

Quoted post

— Tracy Chou (November 27, 2024 at 4:56:58 PM UTC)

now we’re going to do the technical portion of the job interview—but also we’re planning on live streaming it publicly worldwide and also you’re falling off of a cliff while your teeth are falling out and you’re late for school

If you already follow 100% of a starter pack, you know it’s a good starter pack 😍

I created a personal website starter pack!

All the lovely people on this list have ✨fantastic✨ personal #websites or #blogs. 👏 I hope you like it. 🤗

(Feel free to suggest your favorite personal websites as well, of course.)

go.bsky.app/QaRNu68

People Who Have Websites

— Matthias Ott (November 21, 2024 at 12:13:29 PM UTC)

I definitely prefer error messages over whatever happened on bluesky today—a bunch of likes and boosts just *never happened* which will have me doubting the reliability of every action I do on this site for a day or two

New release: 🦴🐀 Eleventy Fetch v5.0.0

👑 Using platform `fetch()` (with timeout support!)
🎂 Adds URL, arbitrary function sources
🍣 Adds XML, parsed XML, raw response types
🗄️ Custom cache filename callbacks

Release Eleventy Fetch v5.0.0 · 11ty/eleventy-fetch
npm install @11ty/eleventy-fetch@5.0.0 Breaking: requires Node 18+ Breaking: Use native fetch() and drop node-fetch dependency by @uncenter in #37 Support URL instance target #41 Use AbortSignal ...

anildash.com is #BuiltWithEleventy 🏆

Hi everybody! In anticipation of doing more writing, I’ve brought all 25 years of my blog archives online, cleaned up lots of dead links, and even added a basic search capability. I hope there’s something there you find valuable! www.anildash.com (And let me know what I should write about next.)

Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

— Anil Dash (November 15, 2024 at 10:14:47 PM UTC)

Introducing 📥 11ty/import: a CLI tool to import content as static files

👋🏻 Easily export all of your WordPress posts
👀 Show recent 🦋 Bluesky posts on your web site without expensive embeds
✅ Make a CMS out of anything on the web using PESOS

Try it out:

GitHub - 11ty/eleventy-import: Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too)
Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too) - 11ty/eleventy-import

For years there has been a stinky cloud of web performance misinformation and propaganda coming from folks in the React community.

So much so that apparently a 57 score on Lighthouse is “fast” (even with 1160ms of TBT and a 5.4s LCP).

(There is *some* nuance here, of course—but we haven’t graduated to those discussions yet!)

If you too want to pretend that your slow web site is fast, use this handy guide: https://www.zachleat.com/web/lighthouse-deception/

Software developers say “Use the right tool for the job—but wouldn’t it be better if this one tool solved every problem and use case for everyone for the remainder of time as we perceive and understand it”

Having a sizeable following on social media hardens you—in the same way that any small measure of power might.

At our worst we think of this as a suit of armor, a sort of mental toughness.

At our best we mourn this as a loss of compassion, a subtraction of our humanity and connectedness.