if you were just in a meeting with me and you see this toot, no you didn’t

just realized my pants zipper was down for that whole zoom meeting

awkward

<html> everywhere all at once

can you believe this guy was recommending icon fonts in 2010

https://www.zachleat.com/web/css-sprites-using-font-face/

(I believe my very first web font blog post 😎)

I can’t tell which is louder, the fans on this 2019 Intel MacBook Pro running what my therapist calls a dangerous number of tabs in a single Chrome window or React fans on Twitter reading a light but fair criticism of Next.js release stability.

what is the practical difference between commando jorts and denim underwear

Next.js bundles a Canary version of React to support a feature that Next has marked as stable (app dir): https://nextjs.org/blog/next-13-4#nextjs-app-router

This follows React design goals: https://react.dev/blog/2023/05/03/react-canaries#tldr

However, the weak link here is that React doesn’t guarantee semver in Canary releases, so *of course* things are going to break. If any deps up the chain break semver, your release also breaks semver.

Fred is right to call this out: https://twitter.com/FredKSchott/status/1673342700651704330

@jefflembeck hey man—hows the job hunt going? Just wanted to check in with you

https://dcdesignweek.org/committee/executive/ has this lovely bio touch where they include phonetic pronunciations of first names ❤️

(site by Marcus Relacion: https://marcusrelacion.com/)

taking a moment today to remember safari for windows

rip

Really appreciate all of the kind words in this thread—they really mean a lot.

I’ve learned an overwhelming amount running this project—and not just on the technical side.

I’ve learned things about our industry, funding, and investment that have really challenged my views on open source—I’m still trying my best to process things and prune off cynicism from the truth.

But regardless, y’all are amazing—I really appreciate every single one of you. Couldn’t have done any of this without y’all ❤️

The most helpful thing folks in the Eleventy community can do right now is to take our Community Survey, which will help streamline our efforts to essential features and plugins!

https://forms.gle/zFA4Jno1cfT8nt9J8

Thank you!

may your post go viral but not viral enough that the brand accounts show up in the replies

wrote what is probably my least favorite blog post of all time and now I reserve the right to be ambiguously moody about it until I hit the publish button next week

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A shout out to this excellently comprehensive article on improving Time to First Byte metrics from Jeremy Wagner

https://web.dev/optimize-ttfb/

With a special nod to the section on streaming that includes some lovely larger context on static/build/prerendering 🏆

anyway—I liked google domains—disappointed to see it sold off.

at this point I’m not sure if I would be shocked if google announced they were shuttering google.com

PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES ARE FOR CLOSERS

when someone casually drops “fiat currencies” in your conversation: 🚩🚩🚩

It was surprising to me to learn that @vite has surpassed next.js in usage.

🧰 1.6M github repos to 1.5M.
🚛 5.2M npm weekly downloads to 4.4M.

Congrats Vite!

the pocket-sized camera computer can do this just fine

rude that I can’t have hundreds of desktop browser tabs open without my computer slowing down

so… how are the front of the front end web developers on my timeline doing

okay, it has two likes—time to call it

this toot is for two people and two people only

Delighted to see a preview of the upcoming Shoelace web site that is using Lit and #BuiltWithEleventy!

Well done @claviska@mastodon.social and team!

https://next.shoelace.style/

if/when vercel IPOs (some folks are suggesting next year)—how would that affect the react ecosystem?

the second best thing about karaoke is that it adds captions to the music

(*especially* products/services/communities that are “free”)

The Reddit API pricing changes and subsequent tire-fire executive response is further evidence that we must take great care to look at how communities (and products!) are funded before we sink our time, hard work, and attention into them.

Given that Safari is shipping JPEG XL, I’d love to see it added to libvips (for use in `sharp` and `@11ty/eleventy-img`)!

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/discussions/2055

small teams make the best software

feeling like I bought a timeshare for property nestled so tightly between a rock and a hard place

good afternoon to this LLI ligature from @simplebits

https://mastodon.social/@simplebits/110510441697651275

if the vibes are off make sure to reboot the vibes by powering them back on again

10% developer

process.env.__NEXT_PRIVATE_PREBUNDLED_REACT

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/8eb14280e8ea94e479aebf19928c9ef413b91124/packages/next/src/server/require-hook.ts#L30

Related, on open-next: https://github.com/serverless-stack/open-next/blob/main/README.md#workaround-set-__next_private_prebundled_react-to-use-prebundled-react

this is fine

everything is fine

this toot is a libertarian honeypot 🫠

@Fronteersconference tfw @andy and I finally meet IRL 😎

“If it’s inaccessible to the poor it’s neither radical nor revolutionary.”

when you get your height and width attributes on the <img> wrong

lots of thirsty drool on the timeline today 😅

second-hand hype is wild

you’ve heard of bereal

but have you heard of their other apps berational and the more popular beirrational

too jetlagged not to post it ok byeeee

update: uttered my first involuntary ope while in the security line—is there something in the air here

Returning to the States, heard my first “Ope” before I made it through Customs 😅

two days of amazing talks and chats with attendees followed by one or more days of replaying all of those conversations to file any personally embarrassing moments in long term memory

conferences! 😅🫠

it’s following me

These folks stumbled into my Web Components talk at #JSNation 👀

it’s sad that no one cares about the time to second byte

🇺🇸 OMA ✈️✈️ 🇳🇱 AMS

See you soon, JSNation!

we can burn billions of dollars in electricity costs for fake digital coins and spicy at-scale generic autocomplete but how dare you attempt to control the volume of your speakers

I’m pretty level-headed most of the time but I turn 100% feral Karen when—in the year of our New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde 2023—the volume buttons on my keyboard are STILL rendered useless attempting to control an HDMI or USB-C output.

“best practices don’t want to actually work any more”

I continue to be surprised that new platform-level CSS features seem to be rolling out so fast that framework and library abstractions on top of CSS are having a hard time keeping up.

Feels unprecedented but it’s a huge vote in favor of Writing CSS as CSS in CSS.

anyway reactivity is ORM for the front-end send toot

Currently fawning over `@preact/signals-core`, a tiny signals implementation that can be used independently of the (P)react ecosystem 🏆

https://github.com/preactjs/signals

Preact is a treasure and I would love to see more zero-dependency utilities like this please and thank you.

an LLM in every pot and a decentralized social network in every garage

“Clout is a fake currency created to distract us from our own exploitation”—@jenn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfHQbdqeadk

Twitter’s self-destruction has really crystalized this point for me.

what are walled gardens but good fences making good neighbors, he cries as he joins yet another social network

infinite scrolling UX should be an opt-in user preference

can adding a media query help when I hit my own breaking point

me, a worm, thriving: birds just don’t want to get up early any more

I snagged a blueysky invite last week so if you’re over there I’m trying it out:

https://bsky.app/profile/zachleat.com

I guess the metaverse didn’t have legs

✈️✈️✈️ Cluj 🇷🇴 to Omaha, NE 🇺🇸 in ~29 hours 😭🫠😷😴😴😴

(via MUN 🇩🇪 DEN 🇺🇸)

Having an incredible time at #JSHeroes today!

Originals:
https://twitter.com/jsheroes/status/1659117804929392641
https://twitter.com/jsheroes/status/1659146035074138113

it’s time to play everyone’s favorite airport game:

chronic smoker 🚬 or covid 😷😷😷

see y’all soon at JSHeroes! 👋🏻

https://jsheroes.io

Time to brand this method, y’all: what do you got?

https://mastodon.social/@devolute/110374874708221432

1. 👏 Hire someone that’s good at HTML and CSS to build components independent of JS frameworks 👏
2. Plug components into a JS framework and layer on behavior later
3. Pay HTML/CSS devs what they deserve for giving part of your code-base longer shelf life than unpasteurized milk

a few kind words can run a marathon

the real MVPs of this poll are the people that sent me pictures of their decorative LEGO 😍

decorative LEGO

the raw audacity of a “keep me signed in” checkbox when you know that token only lasts 24 hours

the zack snyder cut of react 18 is the same size

“a rising tide lifts all boats” hits different with climate change

Enjoying “How companies are sponsoring OSS” from the @changelog:
https://changelog.com/podcast/539

My biased take is that OSS funding should be a budget line item given to every employee at the company that uses or benefits from OSS.

Good companies offer education and training budgets, equipment budgets, why not an OSS budget?

OSS sponsorship is not charity—it’s an investment.

Has anyone tested Qwik with the Custom Element Everywhere tests?
https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/

How’s the web components story in Qwik?

“According to the Web Almanac, only 29% of HTML document requests are served via CDN.”

Learn how to make the web faster from @tunetheweb.

https://youtu.be/mdB-J6BRReo?t=371 (deep link to the quote)

I can (on rare occasion) retoot things I posted on twitter, I’ve decided

(https://www.zachleat.com/twitter/1539332322549538816/)