cryptobros are fiat earthers

on this day, may we all have the unbridled confidence of a react framework author spinning almost 10 years of measured and data-backed criticism into an “I was never wrong” revolutionary new architecture for the web

what are the odds that in the **same week** the creator of next.js would downplay SPA and my uncle would admit that there is a curvature to the earth

this is relatable content

For everyone that uses GitHub Actions to run automated tests on a library that uses the `sharp` image processing module WITH the `ava` JS test runner in Node…

For *all* of those people that are doing that exact combination of things—make sure you run ava with `--no-worker-threads` or it will fail with a non-descriptive exitCode error message without any more information.

apps are not allowed to have content, you see

when a framework author says the framework is “for apps and not content sites” 🚩🚩🚩

no *you’re* building the most unambitious bundler of all time

found a single browser tab using almost half of one GB of memory 🧐

Whew, looks like Node Weekly has confused Netlify and Vercel in its latest post mentioning Eleventy’s new release.

I’ve sent an email to the Cooperpress Editorial Team—hope it gets corrected soon (as much as an email newsletter can?)

https://nodeweekly.com/issues/471

(thanks for the nod @alefteris!)

*Update: it’s fixed 🏆*

@aerotwist should write a blog post

Bundler Fatigue: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/109756950151445090

my kingdom for a “no audible directions within X miles of my home” feature on the maps app

This is a *huge* violation of the core principles of the web.

Getting comfortable with this new Windows laptop—navigated over to play some music on https://tidal.com/ in the Edge browser and it showed me what appears to be an OS-level advertisement (?) for Spotify.

Microsoft… I, uh… what are y’all doing?

An MPA framework that oversells itself for SPA is bad for the developer.

An SPA framework that oversells itself for MPA is bad for the user.

I wonder which scenario is more common?

Today I was reminded that @javan has a very cool personal web site!

https://javan.us/

this web site is best experienced after a nap

I cannot stop thinking about the secret identities the teenage mutant ninja turtles thought they were protecting by covering their eyes with those headbands

is anyone else applying `netlify-plugin-lighthouse` to all of your projects and setting it to fail the build if it doesn’t report a four-hundo score

just me? ok 😅

https://github.com/netlify/netlify-plugin-lighthouse#install-plugin-with-a-netlifytoml-file

good morning to this @simplebits t-shirt

thinking of making my blog into a single page app

as clarification, it will be one page and all of the blog posts will be on that one page and all of the links will be anchor links

what could go wrong

Loving @elk so far! I am curious how it decides whether to show a large preview for an account that followed you versus a small thumbnail—is it based on that person’s follower count?

it’s okay to make an ordinary web site

This is happening in 15 minutes!!

https://hachyderm.io/@blackgirlbytes/109719188988315314

New on the blog: The Magical #Eleventy v2.0.0-beta.1 Release

https://www.zachleat.com/web/eleventy-version-two/

I used so many words to say “mo’ money mo’ breaking changes”

I wonder if there is a relationship between an open source project’s major release velocity (and consequently, how many breaking changes it dispenses) and the project’s funding.

https://fosstodon.org/@webpro/109717768907972230 has informed me that comparing two distinct pre-release tags is… alphabetic.

I don’t agree with this but at least I understand it now 😅

semver.satisfies("2.0.0-canary.1", ">=2.0.0-beta")
> true

semver.satisfies("2.0.0-beta.1", ">=2.0.0-canary")
> false

but… why?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/semver

the release is out which means that I can now start working through my very lengthy email backlog

(I’m so sorry, everyone)

I did it: the very first beta of #Eleventy v2.0 is now available.

https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy/109711447318774161

https://www.11ty.dev/blog/eleventy-v2-beta/

Today is a big day for #Eleventy.

Retired the aging Surface Pro graciously donated to the #Eleventy project for Windows testing in 2019 (thank you Nick! https://twitter.11ty.dev/1126283168288518145/) and upgraded to a Surface Laptop Go 2.

#EleventyGoesWindows

got my first @-spam from a bot clearly doing some long-term growth farming on mastodon today.

*sniff* social networks grow up so fast

Good afternoon

*extreme 1999 budweiser super bowl commercial voice*

WASSSSSSSSM

@remotesynth yeah, absolutely! What’s the best thing to boost?

thankful to be experienced enough to recognize the very formal step in the software release process known as self doubt 😅

Cross linking to the blog post toot: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/109676749204938775

Looks like @chriscoyier responded in blog post form (blog post response to a blog post—I am so happy 🏆)

https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/12/the-great-divide-was-indeed-divisive/

(via @hi_mayank)

JavaScript, Community

https://www.zachleat.com/web/javascript-community/

Having some *thoughts* about those State of JS 2022 results.

Might be time for a blog post… 😩

Whew. https://css-tricks.com/has-is-an-unforgiving-selector/

1. jQuery had its own CSS selector syntax for :has(), which was fine because jQuery pre-dated any standardized querySelector
2. querySelector was standardized (largely because of the popularity of jQuery) and jQuery moved to use it—though jQuery still maintained this non-standard selector syntax
3. :has() becomes a real standardized thing but conflicts with jQuery’s version
4. Official :has() has to change to not break the web

I’m feeling dizzy.

(via @jen4web)

we’ve always been at war with fantasia

Without exaggeration, my number one complaint (for years!) with Firefox as my daily driver was that there was no icon to show minimized windows in the Window menu on Mac. I often accidentally hide windows with ⌘+M and it was annoying to find those to reopen 😅

So whoever added the ♢: you’re incredible and I love you—thank you.

the exhilaration of finding low hanging fruit and the shame of it going unnoticed, hanging so low and for so long

10 star rating system: ick, too many choices
5 star rating system with half stars: yeah, that’s the stuff

@eleventy It was fruitful (but not quite fast enough to be a default yet!)

Y’all can try this out https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/serverless/#compile-the-data-cascade-for-the-project

I’m now using it in production on https://www.11ty.dev/authors/

I wouldn’t mind a few more Letterboxd friends (I only have 2 😅)

Are y’all on that thing?

https://letterboxd.com/zachleat/

Today I’m experimenting with the @eleventy Serverless plugin using the programmatic API for incremental builds (and the new ignore initial feature) to make `collections` work in serverless mode without additional configuration.

If this works I will be able to delete this entire section of the docs 😅 https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/serverless/#re-use-build-time-collections

furthermore if javascript breaks and no one notices—maybe just delete the javascript

if a javascript breaks in a forest and no one notices because your progressive enhancement game is on point—did it ever really break at all

I skipped the last four years of yearly review posts, but we’re back now:

In case you missed it, 2022

https://www.zachleat.com/web/icymi/2022/

There is something deeply unsettling about military industrial complex movies (e.g. the newest Top Gun) where the storyline has a nation-state villain that is vague and unnamed. “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia” indeed.

I’ve been thinking about a proper real-world metaphor for JavaScript for many years and I think I’ve finally found it:

JavaScript is Corn Syrup

and today in this conference talk I will be discus…

the anxiety of 👆🖕 emoji roulette

which one did I post? which one did they post? did they intentionally post it? did my subconscious secretly want to post the wrong one?

The undisputed top two titleholders assisting to debug difficult coding issues:

1. Sleep
2. Pen and paper

I spent the last 37 minutes deep diving into the habits of 1.6M development teams to distill the breadth and depth of their expertise into 2 simple rules that will make every development workflow flawless and bug free. learn how by purchasing my new ebook

2023 is clearly off to a good start here, folks

a bidet, but for your node_modules

mythical person-month but for web perf: adding additional developers to a web project makes the performance slower

seize the means of dev and test too

New year new typeface:

While y’all were updating your footers I treated myself to a @HEX @nicksherman special and put Hex Franklin Tyght (Variable) on my web site for all of my headings.

https://www.zachleat.com/

Hex Franklin Tyght: https://hex.xyz/HEX_Franklin/Tyght/