this is what I think of when I hear bluesky
7 y/o just asked me if 0 - 0 = -0 and I am absolutely delighted by this question
there is only one hard problem in computer science: abstracting the entirety of CSS into HTML classes
For the record, Bluesky can be “worse” than Mastodon (in important ways that we care about) and still be a temporarily valuable place to get folks off of Twitter/X.
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...
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.
Election week always unlocks a special pattern of unhinged “Midwest is a monolith” political commentary from otherwise reasonable East/West coast pundits.
the implied existence of Nightlight Saving Time
if you wait long enough a github star turns into a github black hole
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Thankful to see that 11ty was removed from the next State of JS survey (per my request): https://github.com/Devographics/surveys/issues/252#issuecomment-2443276622I maintain that the State of JS is mostly a popularity contest, highly correlated to marketing budgets and VC investment.
TIL stock WordPress only supports a single author for a blog post. Huh.
A fascinating look at Google Fonts from @stoyan shows the median size for variable (Latin-extended) web font on the service is 34744 bytes.Hefty!https://www.phpied.com/web-font-file-size-study-a-variable-font-addition/
you can see this on the CommonMark interactive dingus https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/
TIL Markdown hyperlink and image syntax doesn’t support whitespace in targets (`href` or `src` HTML attributes, respectively).is rendered as:😭
why did it take an hour for someone to tell me I forgot the URL 😅🫠
“Platform Strategy and Its Discontents” from @slightlyoff Yet another treatise on conflicting incentives hurting the web. Make sure to read the footnotes…https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/
Closely watching Croissant 👀 https://mastodon.social/@BenRiceM/113385700599364899https://apps.apple.com/us/app/croissant-cross-posting/id6670288979(via @janl)
The tragedy of cross posting across multiple social networks is that most don’t bother to give proper attribution to the appropriate accounts on each network.It’s nice to use “Real Name” but it’s so much better and valuable to the author to use @RealName.
Put our Harris/Walz sign up in the yard ✅
🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24279020/browser-company-ai-browser-arc(via @cassidoo)
this is validating and also what my therapist would call “negative reinforcement”—thank you @eric
Absolutely LOVE to see the new `fediverse:creator` tags showing up on shared URLs, providing automated attribution controlled by the source!https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/Incredible feature.
they said it better: https://floss.social/@be/113363249093358608
`alt="No alt text provided for this image"`all accessibility audits passed ✅ good job everyone 🫠😬😭
we must *measure* web performance and not rely on how things *feel*—what are we even doing, y’allthis feels like the silliest most mundane thing to say
every time someone says that a web site “feels fast” you must append “on my device” to the statement and a dollar must be placed in the works-on-my-machine jar
Looks like it’s React Native’s StyleSheet: https://reactnative.dev/docs/stylesheet(thank you @konnorrogers @jakelazaroff 🙌🏻)
Genuine question: does anyone know what CSS tool might be generating markup like this? A curious mixture of generated classes and inline styles.
fascinating that https://www.solidjs.com/ is *entirely* client-side rendered
developers say “the complexity of this task is out of scope” when they really mean “I don’t wanna”
someone filed an issue on an 11ty repo to get help with their slow astro build 😅OSS is *wild* y’all
A great post from @avidlarge on the @cloudcannon blog—having revisions in your git history is a technically superior solution: more powerful, robust, and insulated from unnecessary drama.https://cloudcannon.com/blog/content-is-sacred-so-own-your-revision-history/
we must unite, good and kindhearted developerspeople, against the balrog of corporate hackathons once more
we fought hard to vanquish the corporate hackathon in ages past but as prophecy has foretold they have returned—clawing back up from the depths of hell to claim many an unpaid hour of labor in service of insatiable marketing KPIs
Reading breaking changes in a JavaScript framework’s release notes and thinking about all of the web components I published that will just keep working without any upstream third-party maintenance burden.Web components pay dividends.
if you aren’t involved in how it works, you’ll never truly appreciate it when it does
replaced the broken handle on my screen door yesterday and now I get good feels every time it smoothly latches shutthere is a larger lesson here, I think 😅
Blog: Speaking at: Web Unleashed, 11 October 2024
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Blog: Eleventy v3.0.0 is now available!
After over a year of work, our very first stable release of ESM-friendly 3.0 is now available: After over a year of work, our very first stable release of ESM-friendly 3.0 is now available: Eleventy v3.0.0Eleventy v3.0.0 🎈🐀 🎈🐀
We are very excited to see this ship and look forward to what y’all build with it 🏆We are very excited to see this ship and look forward to what y’all build with it 🏆
Eleventy v3.0.0: Possums ❤️ ESMEleventy v3.0.0: Possums ❤️ ESM (includes full release notes, features, upgrade guide, and thank you notes!) (includes full release notes, features, upgrade guide, and thank you notes!)
Today—I’m delighted to announce that 11ty is joining the excellent team at Font Awesome!Today—I’m delighted to announce that 11ty is joining the excellent team at Font Awesome!
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Blog: Oddbird’s Winging It Live: Web Components
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Blog: The Sneaky Costs of Scaling Serverless
Up front disclosures: I am a former Netlify employee (it’s been over a year ago) and currently receive sponsored hosting services from both Vercel and Netlify.Up front disclosures: I am a former Netlify employee (it’s been over a year ago) and currently receive sponsored hosting services from both Vercel and Netlify. If I’m completely frank, the If I’m completely frank, the 11ty Screenshots API11ty Screenshots API has been a bit of a maintenance annoyance over the years: it’s a beefy bundle and a bit of a resource hog. Historically Netlify has graciously provided hosting, but... has been a bit of a maintenance annoyance over the years: it’s a beefy bundle and a bit of a resource hog. Historically Netlify has graciously provided hosting, but...
After over a year of work, our very first beta release of ESM-friendly 3.0 is now available: After over a year of work, our very first beta release of ESM-friendly 3.0 is now available: Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1 🎈🐀 🎈🐀 We are very excited to see this ship and look forward to what y’all build with it 🏆We are very excited to see this ship and look forward to what y’all build with it 🏆 Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1: ESM like a Phoenix (the mythical bird, not Arizona)Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1: ESM like a Phoenix (the mythical bird, not Arizona) (includes full release notes, features, upgrade... (includes full release notes, features, upgrade...
The The EleventyEleventy code-base is now written using ESM. code-base is now written using ESM. However, Eleventy projects can be written using CommonJS or ESM (and we’ll continue to support both moving forward).However, Eleventy projects can be written using CommonJS or ESM (and we’ll continue to support both moving forward). As Eleventy is a command line tool, this offers a bit of wiggle room navigating the CommonJS/ESM divide. That is, until we started bundling application plugins in the core library.As Eleventy is a command line tool, this offers a bit of wiggle room navigating the CommonJS/ESM divide. That is, until we started bundling application plugins in the core library. Consider this application configuration file,...Consider this application configuration file,...
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A quick two minute State of the Eleventy-verse, first created as a Jamsnack for Jamstack Conf 2021.
Eleventy: https://www.11ty.dev/ Eleventy Authors demo using On-demand Builders: https://www.11ty.dev/authors/ (URL updated: July 29, 2022) Netlify’s On-demand Builders: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/04/14/faster-builds-for-large-sites-on-netlify-with-on-demand-builders-now-in-early-access/
Eleventy Docs: https://www.11ty.dev/ Eleventy Docs demo using On-demand Builders: https://fns-demo-cloud--11ty.netlify.app/ Netlify’s On-demand Builders: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/04/14/faster-builds-for-large-sites-on-netlify-with-on-demand-builders-now-in-early-access/
A quick two minute State of the Eleventy-verse, first created as a Jamsnack for Jamstack Conf 2020.
Selecthor on GitHub: https://github.com/zachleat/selecthor Selecthor Live Demo: https://www.zachleat.com/selecthor/