Notices by Zach Leatherman :11ty: (zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com), page 2

shout out to static sites—casually and calmly doing their thing—while folks are out for the holidays

@gabek wait—what isn’t popular around here?

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 OR, you can use this react component—it has many dependencies, requires a transpiler, weighs 200KB+, uses outdated react best practices from 3 months ago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

“Bluesky is insulated from billionaire influence because everything is open source!”

oh you sweet summer child

what’s your least favorite emoji? I’ll go first: ✨

what is the best JavaScript framework? we asked 2000 next.js superfans to find out

@eaton for lack of a better option I picked a random time on Monday—happy for it to be different!

@eaton I am super interested! Can we chat?

@scottjenson @Meyerweb @brad_frost (I’m working on the WordPress to Eleventy pipeline problem right now)

@Migueldeicaza so the answer (behind all of that complexity) is yes, right?

@stefan this is the future we want

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.

There are incredible parallels between the failure modes of smart home technology and modern web site architecture:

When the power goes out 🤝 When JavaScript fails

My smart lock failed and I’m locked out of my house 🤝 This form button doesn’t submit

The company went out of business and now this {smart device 🤝 JavaScript framework} isn’t receiving updates and poses a security risk

is anyone interested in trying my new C-00000291*.sys plugin for eleventy

me when they recommend to reduce the amount of JavaScript: 🎉🏆🥰🌈

me when they recommend to use fewer Web Fonts: 😡😠😢😭

@beep they are lovely ethan and they deserve a chance to prove themselves

Today, the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader eleven short years ago on July 1, 2013.

To honor their memory (and in leiu 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.

incredible news today that googie anaiytics is not a reputable vendor of javascript

https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack

the public perception of AI has been permanently damaged by shitposting in training models

…we all understand what needs to happen next, right

@deadparrot @dries have to agree with you there