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Folks may not know but @fontawesome.com does this (for their heavily discounted Kickstarter pricing, too!)
we need to mandate dropout's non-evil pricing strategy for everything... if you signed up for a monthly plan, congrats, you get access at that price until you cancel.
raise the floor for new customers only and reward early adopter loyalty. easy win.
Zach Leatherman 3 replies 14 likes1 repost Original on Blueskyhttps://tampamonitor.com/ is #BuiltAwesome 🏆 by Michael Bishop
Build Awesome (11ty) 1 repost Original on Mastodon<hyper-card> v2.0.3 shipped with new glow option thanks to @chriskirknielsen.com!
Zach Leatherman 5 replies 7 likes1 repost Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonWeb component to add a three-dimensional hover effect to a card.
New release: Image Color v2.0.0
Fetch colors from any image for theming! Makes use of the new Image v7 release internally.
Build Awesome (11ty) 15 likes4 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonNew v2.0.0 release of our Browsersync plugin (for folks not using the newer Dev Server): https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-server-browsersync/releases/tag/v2.0.0
Build Awesome (11ty) 6 likes1 repost Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodonhttps://unsung.aresluna.org/seeing-like-a-state/ by @aresluna.org has lovely examples highlighting usability issues with toggle controls.
Is the toggle on when the circle is on the left or right? How about when the background is dark? …in a dark mode theme?
I might suggest text that says On/Off 🫣
Zach Leatherman 25 replies 11 likes5 reposts1 quote Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonAm I neglecting my open source projects? Is this still being maintained??
New on the blog: https://www.zachleat.com/web/is-this-still-being-maintained/
Zach Leatherman 5 replies 41 likes12 reposts1 quote Original on MastodonOriginal on Blueskyhttps://hugopilate.com/ is #BuiltAwesome by Hugo Pilate
was on vacation last week, what did I miss
A plugin to run Lighthouse against a set of urls to see which site is the fastest.
An Eleventy server plugin to use Browsersync with Eleventy 2.0+.
Watched on Friday July 31, 2026.
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
Small utility to efficiently fetch the colors from an image.
STABLE RELEASE KLAXON
Image 🖼️ v7.0.0
Release: https://github.com/11ty/image/releases/tag/v7.0.0
Docs: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/image/
Huge memory usage improvements 🎉
Thank you: Jens Tangermann, @kevinyank.com, Kirthi Balakrishnan, Valadaptive, Jorn Mineur
Build Awesome (11ty) 2 replies 24 likes11 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonLow level utility to perform build-time image transformations.
https://mattdoane.com/ is a personal web site #BuiltAwesome by @mattdoane.com 🏆
A new kind of hamburger menu.
A web component to show Lighthouse scores via Speedlify
We are only 196 stars away from 20k stars on GitHub: https://github.com/11ty/buildawesome
Have you starred Build Awesome (11ty) yet?
Build Awesome (11ty) 7 likes7 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonPre-release for testing: Image v7.0.0-alpha.5
So many performance improvements and fixes!
https://github.com/11ty/image/releases/tag/v7.0.0-alpha.5
Thank you to: Kirthi Balakrishnan, @djenz, Jorn Mineur
Build Awesome (11ty) 1 reply 9 likes3 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonLow level utility to perform build-time image transformations.
A collection of utilities to progressively enhance <details> with new features
Build Awesome (11ty) 10 likes1 repost1 quote Original on Mastodonhttps://aphera.co is #BuiltAwesome #BuiltWithEleventy by Ryan Carver, @nazhamid.com, and Juan Pablo Zambrano!
Build Awesome (11ty) 2 likes1 repost Original on Blueskyworking on my web site will solve my problems
working on my web site will solve my problems
working on my web site will solve my problems
Zach Leatherman 8 replies 204 likes12 reposts2 quotes Original on BlueskyAvatar Aang is *well* worth your time (even if you’re only marginally interested in the series): https://boxd.it/B1BK
Watched on Sunday July 26, 2026.
Is this still being maintained?? A little (big?) list of my open source projects sorted by how much they’re being neglected (descending).
https://www.zachleat.com/projects/
30k GitHub stars.
5.7M npm downloads last month.
4.7k issues closed and 2.8k PRs closed 🤯
Zach Leatherman 12 replies 33 likes4 reposts1 quote Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodon
Watched on Saturday July 25, 2026.
A personal report of open source projects to prioritize maintenance
shout out to anyone else that grew up in a LEFT BEHIND book-series household in the 90s
at this rate it’s possible that I will be the last person to understand the unique value of atproto
WordPress updates required: https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-0-2-release/
> The attack has no preconditions and can be exploited by an anonymous user in a stock install of WordPress with no plugins — https://slcyber.io/research-center/wp2shell-pre-authentication-rce-in-wordpress-core/
Zach Leatherman 1 reply 13 likes10 reposts4 quotes Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodon
Watched on Thursday July 23, 2026.
do you want to keep daylight saving time or double it and give it to the next person
Zach Leatherman 12 replies 32 likes5 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodonhttps://autheona.com/ is #BuiltAwesome #BuiltWithEleventy by Lasan Nishshanka
Build Awesome (11ty) 1 reply 4 likes1 quote Original on BlueskyLinkedIn’s API is absolutely wild — how many hoops do I gotta jump through to get an API key that posts to my LinkedIn page?
*hops on the smallest of miniature horses*
so how high does this horse go
lots of armchair quarterbacks on mastodon today
I was curious what the red/yellow cards used in the World Cup would look like with color vision deficiency (Protanopia shown).
Seems like a player could be shown a card and not know the color. Does it matter with sufficient contrast and only 2 cards?
Could be easily solved by adding a symbol to the card or by having two different shapes.
Zach Leatherman 21 replies 25 likes7 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodonokay so @catraxx has absolutely pinpointed it here: https://tech.lgbt/@catraxx/116953748954617977
Zach Leatherman 6 likes1 repost Original on Mastodonfound this old photo of me wearing a hypercolor tshirt and holding a bazooka — classic
only conceding one goal for the entirety of the tournament is *wild*
Zach Leatherman 17 likes Original on Blueskyzero shots on goal for 120+ minutes is *wild*
Zach Leatherman 8 replies 29 likes Original on BlueskyThis game is absolutely wild.
I’m confused by these goal scoring tactics
England is up 2 minutes in against France: time to park the bus! Is it too early to bring on Dan Burn?
Zach Leatherman 3 replies 7 likes1 repost Original on BlueskyJust randomly stumbled onto a web site that gave a shout out to Bigtext 🤯 https://github.com/zachleat/BigText
Zach Leatherman 2 replies 13 likes2 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodon
Watched on Thursday July 16, 2026.
Shipped hyper-card@2.0.2 with a lovely visual improvement from @chriskirknielsen.com github.com/zachleat/hyp...
Zach Leatherman 3 replies 33 likes4 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonWeb component to add a three-dimensional hover effect to a card.
Watched on Sunday July 12, 2026.
I guess FIFA embedded sensors can detect when the ball hits a strand of hair but not when it hits the camera wire?
Zach Leatherman 2 replies 19 likes Original on Blueskyreact has been doing hydration breaks since 2013
Zach Leatherman 11 replies 140 likes15 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on Mastodon
Watched on Sunday July 5, 2026.
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What an incredible team and what an incredible run. Wow.
Zach Leatherman 4 replies 37 likes1 repost Original on BlueskySome minor housekeeping: our `11ty-website` repo on GitHub has been renamed to `docs`: https://github.com/11ty/docs
Build Awesome (11ty) 12 likes1 repost Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonA new Build Awesome (Eleventy) alpha is available for testing:
🥷 Using our fully async-friendly Nunjucks fork
🎁 Includes updated Bundle Plugin
https://github.com/11ty/buildawesome/releases/tag/v4.0.0-alpha.9
📊 17 fewer dependencies than 3.1.6 (-14%)
📉 6 MB smaller than 3.1.6 (-39%)
Build Awesome (11ty) 1 reply 14 likes8 reposts Original on MastodonOriginal on BlueskyA simpler way to build awesome web sites.
Run Build Awesome (Eleventy) in your browser.
A simpler way to build awesome web sites.
A simpler way to build awesome web sites.
Run Build Awesome (Eleventy) in your browser.
A simpler way to build awesome web sites.
Little bundles of code, little bundles of joy.
Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013.
To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS, Atom, JSON or equivalent feed to your web site and keep building towards a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.
Zach Leatherman 27 replies 753 likes471 reposts18 quotes Original on MastodonOriginal on BlueskyGitHub Releases [11ty/fetch]: Fetch v5.1.3
https://github.com/11ty/fetch/releases/tag/v5.1.3
GitHub Releases [11ty/eleventy-plugin-bundle]: Bundle Plugin v4.0.1
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-bundle/releases/tag/v4.0.1
Build Awesome (11ty) 2 likes1 repost Original on MastodonFetch and locally cache remote API calls and assets.
Little bundles of code, little bundles of joy.
GitHub Releases [11ty/nunjucks]: Nunjucks v4.0.0-alpha.3 FULL ASYNC
https://github.com/11ty/nunjucks/releases/tag/v4.0.0-alpha.3
GitHub Releases [11ty/nunjucks]: Nunjucks v4.0.0-alpha.3 FULL ASYNC
https://github.com/11ty/nunjucks/releases/tag/v4.0.0-alpha.3
GitHub Releases [11ty/eleventy-plugin-bundle]: v4.0.0
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-bundle/releases/tag/v4.0.0
Build Awesome (11ty) 1 like2 reposts1 quote Original on MastodonGitHub Releases [11ty/nunjucks]: Nunjucks v4.0.0-alpha.3 FULL ASYNC
https://github.com/11ty/nunjucks/releases/tag/v4.0.0-alpha.3
Build Awesome (11ty) 5 likes2 reposts Original on MastodonOriginal on BlueskyLittle bundles of code, little bundles of joy.
Just to be clear: we forked Nunjucks.
Build Awesome (11ty) 18 replies 44 likes10 reposts1 quote Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonA powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired)
A big ol’ maintenance pre-release of Nunjucks reduces library dependencies to 0, audits to 0, install size by 566 kB (828 to 262):
https://github.com/11ty/nunjucks/releases/tag/v4.0.0-alpha.2
Coming soon to a canary release near you.
Build Awesome (11ty) 2 replies 27 likes4 reposts1 quote Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonNunjucks maintenance is happening: https://github.com/11ty/nunjucks/releases/tag/v4.0.0-alpha.2
Zach Leatherman 11 replies 35 likes7 reposts Original on MastodonOriginal on BlueskyA powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired)
Maintainence task: our docs on 11ty.dev have moved from clean-css to LightningCSS — excited to make use of CSS nesting!
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator.
Build Awesome (11ty) 14 likes3 reposts Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonExperimenting with modernizing the Nunjucks test suite with Claude 😬 moving from mocha/phantomjs to @vitest.dev. Seems like a good use case: an established, well-tested legacy repo that has outdated patterns/complexity and it makes no changes to library code.
Zach Leatherman 10 replies 16 likes1 quote Original on Bluesky Build Awesome (11ty) 3 likes1 repost Original on Mastodon Build Awesome (11ty) 6 likes2 reposts Original on Bluesky Build Awesome (11ty) 7 likes1 repost Original on Blueskybig tech continues their undefeated streak of shipping AR glasses that look dorky as hell and somehow hasn’t noticed the foolproof formula that’s been hiding in plain sight this entire time
Zach Leatherman 2 replies 49 likes2 reposts Original on Bluesky20s: I can be everything, everywhere, at all times
30s: I can be everything, in many places, but not all the time
40s: I can be a few things, in a few places, occasionally
Zach Leatherman 19 replies 102 likes8 reposts2 quotes Original on BlueskyOriginal on MastodonI know it’s relatively easy to automate social media now, but just to be clear it’s super rude when an automation replies to threads in which they were not originally mentioned or included.
Zach Leatherman 2 replies 12 likes Original on Bluesky
Watched on Friday June 19, 2026.