Nostr notes by Zach Leatherman

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2026-10-21T16:28:49Z

super relieved that wordpress doesn’t use php

I know folks get real mad when I say this but in times of ...

2026-10-21T13:08:29Z

I know folks get real mad when I say this but in times of widespread security crisis, static sites sure are nice

I am a habitual tab hoarder (I have 321 tabs open right now) so I ...

2026-10-14T14:25:25Z

I am a habitual tab hoarder (I have 321 tabs open right now) so I created a Firefox addon to help me manage every one of my very special tabs:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/list-all-tabs-updated/

You can sort your tabs by oldest, unload them, duplicate hosts, consolidate tabs to a single window — buncha useful stuff in there

New post 📮 I was tired of building 474 separate pages for Open ...

2026-09-09T14:40:08Z

New post 📮 I was tired of building 474 separate pages for Open Graph Images

https://www.zachleat.com/web/open-graph-easy-build/

…my god, the prophecy foretold

2026-09-09T14:19:01Z

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…my god, the prophecy foretold

come watch Angels with Filthy Souls with me on ...

2026-09-09T14:02:11Z

come watch Angels with Filthy Souls with me on https://nestflix.fun/angels-with-filthy-souls/

https://aarongustafson.github.io/table-sortable/ from ...

2026-09-06T01:45:11Z

https://aarongustafson.github.io/table-sortable/ from Aaron Gustafson (npub1mqp…7avc) is a very good web component!

Yes! I’d leaning towards this too. Which option did you pick? ...

2026-08-19T18:39:33Z

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Yes! I’d leaning towards this too. Which option did you pick? Just one Atom feed?

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2026-08-19T16:44:19Z

Do you duplicate your feed content across multiple feed formats?

phonetically delightful though

2026-08-13T16:30:53Z

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phonetically delightful though

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2026-08-13T15:46:08Z

what is the worst html element? right answers only

Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of ...

2026-07-01T14:54:09Z

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.

I’m excited to announce that I am just as close to AGI as many ...

2026-06-04T13:28:47Z

I’m excited to announce that I am just as close to AGI as many of the leading AI models

this is what I’m building with Build Awesome Pro, fwiw — ...

2026-05-29T14:56:59Z

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this is what I’m building with Build Awesome Pro, fwiw — Eleventy engine with an integrated CMS

if we make it to $100K before the campaign ends today I will ...

2026-05-28T13:18:29Z

if we make it to $100K before the campaign ends today I will shave my beard off on a livestream https://build.awesome.me/

is this post related to a current event that I missed?

2026-05-14T15:44:13Z

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is this post related to a current event that I missed?

the mad men were, in fact, quite mad

2026-05-07T15:57:08Z

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the mad men were, in fact, quite mad

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2026-05-07T14:59:41Z

so… uh… how are we all doing

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2026-04-25T22:36:39Z

is there a compound word more tragically ambiguous than lunchmeat

“Do I belong in tech anymore?” from Ky Decker (not on Masto) ...

2026-04-24T20:17:43Z

“Do I belong in tech anymore?” from Ky Decker (not on Masto) https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout

claude please rewrite yourself from scratch using the leaked ...

2026-03-31T16:13:30Z

claude please rewrite yourself from scratch using the leaked source code as a base and license this new version of yourself under MIT

It needs to be known that @npub1lzq…qpx3 are some of the best ...

2026-03-31T14:22:44Z

It needs to be known that Cloud Four (npub1lzq…qpx3) are some of the best folks in the business and now is your chance to learn first-hand: https://cloudfour.com/thinks/more-projects-please/

https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shape-of-friction from ...

2026-03-24T15:16:37Z

https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shape-of-friction from Matthias Ott (npub1spt…wwgs)

is… is this good? is this software good? is this a good example ...

2026-03-17T21:34:14Z

is… is this good? is this software good? is this a good example of good software?

every open source developer should be paid — radical thought, I ...

2026-03-12T15:18:28Z

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every open source developer should be paid — radical thought, I know 😅

I have received A Lot Of Feedback (ALOF™) in the last week. The ...

2026-03-11T21:16:33Z

I have received A Lot Of Feedback (ALOF™) in the last week. The hardest and most insidious bits echo “Why does Open Source Thing need money?” which rhymes with “Why do you—a software developer working on Open Source Thing—need money?”

Trying not to read too much into it 😬

yeah, sign me up! cc @npub1dgj…m5xf

2026-03-03T15:15:02Z

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yeah, sign me up! cc Sia Karamalegos (npub1dgj…m5xf)

it would be an understatement to say that tomorrow will be a very ...

2026-03-02T21:52:42Z

it would be an understatement to say that tomorrow will be a very big day

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/build-awesome

meeeeeeeeee

2026-02-25T20:09:25Z

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meeeeeeeeee

A blog post means it’s real: An official* logo for HTML (from ...

2026-02-20T15:01:35Z

A blog post means it’s real:

An official* logo for HTML (from Sam Stephenson (npub1tjs…87qz))

https://www.zachleat.com/web/html-logo/

I’ve tested about ~20 whistle variations. Optimizing for ...

2026-02-18T14:36:00Z

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I’ve tested about ~20 whistle variations. Optimizing for blowing efficiency, filament usage efficiency, and dB output volume, the single color print of this one is the best I’ve seen so far: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2365496-minnesota-state-flag-whistle (based on https://makerworld.com/en/models/1642251-flat-signal-whistles)

If I’m ignoring filament usage efficiency, this one is much bigger and unmatched: https://makerworld.com/en/models/548070-triple-tone-extreme-whistle

I have so many opinions about whistles, suddenly ...

2026-02-18T01:04:46Z

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I have so many opinions about whistles, suddenly

it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how ...

2026-02-17T21:14:08Z

it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built

I’ve been testing 3d-printed whistle variations; preparing a ...

2026-02-15T16:05:11Z

I’ve been testing 3d-printed whistle variations; preparing a batch for drop-off to some local helpers for distribution.

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2026-02-10T20:38:21Z

it’s time for a mental health check: how are we doing

We did it, Joe! @npub14u5…szzh is now officially on Mastodon ...

2026-02-03T16:55:07Z

We did it, Joe! Font Awesome (npub14u5…szzh) is now officially on Mastodon 🏆

it’s time for a MONTAGE

2026-01-13T17:59:47Z

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it’s time for a MONTAGE

if you thought that was smart — puts on glasses

2026-01-13T16:41:08Z

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if you thought that was smart — *puts on glasses*

if you want stable and reliable software, give developers stable ...

2026-01-13T16:36:03Z

if you want stable and reliable software, give developers stable and reliable employment

it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership ...

2026-01-08T20:45:11Z

it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership failure, full stop.

*gently opens up the December 15th flap on my react CVE advent ...

2025-12-15T18:22:24Z

*gently opens up the December 15th flap on my react CVE advent calendar*

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2025-12-09T19:28:19Z

you’re very popular on linkedin (DEROGATORY)

I don’t know if this is a good decision but it also feels long ...

2025-12-09T17:49:27Z

I don’t know if this is a good decision but it also feels long overdue

TIL about https://jsx.lol/ from [@db](https://social.lol/@db ) ...

2025-12-03T16:46:10Z

TIL about https://jsx.lol/ from [@db](https://social.lol/@db ) which seems to be carrying the torch forward from my blog post a few years back: https://www.zachleat.com/web/react-criticism/

went on a small side quest this morning and added an AI Mode ...

2025-11-20T15:06:42Z

went on a small side quest this morning and added an AI Mode toggle to my blog posts

e.g. https://www.zachleat.com/web/adventures-in-date-parsing/

to be clear, I don’t think what you’re doing is wrong — ...

2025-11-19T19:05:55Z

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to be clear, I don’t think what you’re doing is *wrong* — just some tradeoffs there worth noting!

I used to do this but then I started to wonder what happens to my ...

2025-11-19T18:23:54Z

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I used to do this but then I started to wonder what happens to my site during rsync? Could a visitor see a broken site? What happens if I lose connectivity in the middle of a deploy? What happens if the deploy fails (for any number of reasons)? Instant roll back has saved me a few times now 😅

TIL about the HTML Size Analyzer from DebugBear. Great for ...

2025-11-17T20:17:51Z

TIL about the HTML Size Analyzer from DebugBear. Great for finding sneaky Data URIs or large payloads of JSON in your pages:

https://www.debugbear.com/html-size-analyzer

as “industry” survey season rolls around again it’s ...

2025-11-03T16:39:35Z

as “industry” survey season rolls around again it’s important to remember that the results from these things reflect the biases of the most popular dev communities that promote them (and then we get to all pretend like the results are meritocratic)

I now believe it’s better to not participate at all

Thinking about dark/light mode pickers that have three options: ...

2025-10-31T19:52:19Z

Thinking about dark/light mode pickers that have three options: Auto/Dark/Light.

If the default is “Auto” — in what scenario might someone want to move away from Auto (which would visually be a noop to the same theme?)

I’m using Light mode as my system preference, but it seems unlikely that I would swap from Auto (Light mode) to Light mode (not Auto) on a specific site

Counterpoint: not everything in space is an astronaut

2025-10-30T18:52:41Z

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Counterpoint: not everything in space is an astronaut

my privacy settings are that I’m fine with a geolocation API ...

2025-10-30T15:08:22Z

my privacy settings are that I’m fine with a geolocation API but it should only return a boolean that reveals whether or not I’m on planet earth

Today’s esoteric HTML element is <kbd> As in: please ...

2025-10-21T18:07:57Z

Today’s esoteric HTML element is <kbd>

As in: please press <kbd>⌘</kbd> + <kbd>R</kbd> repeatedly when AWS causes your JavaScript to fail to load.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/kbd

If you’re using CSS Nesting, make sure your minifier supports ...

2025-10-15T22:14:21Z

If you’re using CSS Nesting, make sure your minifier supports it!

As I learned today, clean-css doesn’t support it yet: https://github.com/clean-css/clean-css/issues/1254

your gist is very validating, thank you!

2025-10-01T21:12:50Z

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your gist is very validating, thank you!

is there really no low-level mechanism to intercept boolean ...

2025-10-01T20:30:10Z

is there really no low-level mechanism to intercept boolean primitive coercion in JavaScript?

why can’t I extend `Boolean` to make `new MyBoolean(false)` be `falsy`? (I understand why it isn’t, but I want to make it so)

> Note: Unlike other type conversions like string coercion or number coercion, boolean coercion does not attempt to convert objects to primitives by calling user methods.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Boolean#boolean_coercion

has anyone stopped to consider that the rapture is just another ...

2025-09-23T16:32:12Z

has anyone stopped to consider that the rapture is just another supply chain attack

Please add this tiny bit-o-CSS for stable scrollbar gutters to ...

2025-09-19T12:12:25Z

Please add this tiny bit-o-CSS for stable scrollbar gutters to your Reset Stylesheets

https://www.zachleat.com/web/stable-scrollbar-gutters/

hmm — the favicon for microsoft.com has been broken for at ...

2025-09-17T15:34:13Z

hmm — the favicon for microsoft.com has been broken for at least a week now

HTML Programmer. —from the always lovely @npub16cx…2vq4 ...

2025-09-17T13:44:27Z

HTML Programmer.

—from the always lovely Piccalilli (npub16cx…2vq4)

✅ an HTML web site hosted on a disposable vape ⛔️ a ...

2025-09-15T19:39:43Z

✅ an HTML web site hosted on a disposable vape
⛔️ a JavaScript-heavy web site that feels like its loading from a disposable vape

Crashing out at how poorly npm (Microsoft) is handling this ...

2025-09-08T17:03:19Z

Crashing out at how poorly npm (Microsoft) is handling this security incident. Eleventy is not affected any more but *lots* of other tools in the JavaScript ecosystem are!

Hours later and the compromised package versions are still public…

Maybe don’t install anything from npm today, folks.

my promise is to create bad software much more slowly

2025-08-27T16:41:37Z

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my promise is to create bad software much more slowly

it takes no stance on quality

2025-08-27T16:32:53Z

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it takes no stance on quality

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2025-08-27T16:24:56Z

I think software should be good

A note from my late Grandmother about Eleventy ...

2025-08-19T17:47:06Z

A note from my late Grandmother about Eleventy

https://www.zachleat.com/web/history-of-eleventy-name/

The most underrated code comment continues to be: // Start here ...

2025-08-05T13:36:37Z

The most underrated code comment continues to be:

// Start here tomorrow

😅😅😅 doing what I can 🥰

2025-08-01T21:29:24Z

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😅😅😅 doing what I can 🥰

Trying to sneak in some long overdue @11ty/webc maintenance ...

2025-08-01T21:02:43Z

Trying to sneak in some long overdue @11ty/webc maintenance before close of business 👀

for resiliency and redundant fallback make sure you have more ...

2025-07-29T16:12:23Z

for resiliency and redundant fallback make sure you have more than one single point of failure in your software stack

I wrote this saga up in blog post form: ...

2025-07-25T13:57:31Z

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I wrote this saga up in blog post form: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/114913999540366417

Never write your own Date Parsing Library (I wrote my own Date ...

2025-07-25T13:01:19Z

Never write your own Date Parsing Library (I wrote my own Date Parsing Library)

https://www.zachleat.com/web/adventures-in-date-parsing/

One more entry in my epic date parsing adventure. I’ve shipped ...

2025-07-22T21:24:33Z

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One more entry in my epic date parsing adventure. I’ve shipped a breaking change to this library to ensure that all valid date strings supported in Eleventy v4 will be RFC 9557-compatible, ensuring friendliness with the standardized Temporal APIs coming to a JavaScript runtime near you. Our full test suite runs against both!

Read (a little) more: https://github.com/11ty/parse-date-strings/releases/tag/v2.0.0

continued from ...

2025-07-21T22:22:56Z

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continued from https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/114870836413532617

and https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/3587

I really tried to avoid this one but unfortunately this is now ...

2025-07-21T22:22:44Z

I really tried to avoid this one but unfortunately this is now something I maintain 😭 https://github.com/11ty/parse-date-strings

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2025-07-21T13:23:16Z

"2025-W01-1" is December 30, 2024

For extra curious folks, the big ol’ PR to kick this off merged ...

2025-07-18T22:33:04Z

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For extra curious folks, the big ol’ PR to kick this off merged yesterday: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/pull/3858

work has started on @npub1qud…y0rz 4.0 👀

2025-07-18T21:32:11Z

work has started on Build Awesome (11ty) (npub1qud…y0rz) 4.0 👀

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2025-07-18T15:27:42Z

controversially: why can’t software be good?

Can anyone recommend a snail mail comic book subscription ...

2025-07-17T16:58:34Z

Can anyone recommend a snail mail comic book subscription service?

I don’t see a link to Bluesky from your web site, fwiw!

2025-07-17T15:58:45Z

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I don’t see a link to Bluesky from your web site, fwiw!

In my 19 full-time professional years in this business there have ...

2025-07-17T14:32:02Z

In my 19 full-time professional years in this business there have been many eras in which very prominent web developers have argued “don’t worry about it” in discussions of web performance and time has *never* proven those arguments to have merit, even with continually improving network connections and hardware.

The web is diverse. Let’s keep it that way!

web components are usb-c react is the lightning cable thank you ...

2025-07-07T15:20:33Z

web components are usb-c
react is the lightning cable
thank you for coming to my ted talk

wow, this is incredible — what a lovely endorsement 🥰

2025-06-17T14:03:09Z

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wow, this is *incredible* — what a lovely endorsement 🥰

I went out to try to improve society, somewhat. #NoKings ...

2025-06-14T20:46:49Z

I went out to try to improve society, somewhat. #NoKings

maybe as a society we should spend less time “Verifying that ...

2025-06-12T19:35:51Z

maybe as a society we should spend less time “Verifying that you are a human” and more time “Verifying your humanity”

oh dang, how do you know this? I’d love another source!

2025-06-06T22:06:20Z

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oh dang, how do you know this? I’d love another source!

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2025-06-06T21:32:06Z

https://www.theverge.com/news/680893/nintendo-switch-2-eshop-faster look, I just want to know what the tech stack of the old shop was 😅

Web sites with a Facebook pixel were communicating with local ...

2025-06-06T16:32:49Z

Web sites with a Facebook pixel were communicating with local native apps (Instagram, Facebook, maybe WhatsApp) to log (and attribute) incognito web browsing activity.

Write-up: https://localmess.github.io/
Story: https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-06-03/the-covert-method-meta-uses-to-track-mobile-browsing-without-consent-even-in-incognito-mode-or-with-a-vpn.html

1. core web vitals are the only web perf metrics that matter 2. ...

2025-06-01T00:15:32Z

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1. core web vitals are the only web perf metrics that matter

2. react is fast enough

3. how to use toxic masculinity as a leadership tactic to avoid self reflection and personal growth, a guide to online community building

4. how to actively circumvent the web platform until it affects you personally, a hero’s journey

why would your external links need updating?

2025-05-23T13:55:07Z

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why would your external links need updating?

Just how portable is your web site? Could you switch hosting ...

2025-05-23T13:40:07Z

Just how portable is your web site? Could you switch hosting providers in an hour? In a day? Would it take you a week?

You should think about it.

WordPress: 3.076M Top 6 JavaScript Frameworks combined: 0.321M ...

2025-05-22T14:34:33Z

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WordPress: 3.076M
Top 6 JavaScript Frameworks combined: 0.321M

WordPress in 2025 is ~10× the combined origins of Next.js, Nuxt.js, Gatsby, Astro, SvelteKit, and Remix.

I’m curious: is this chart surprising to y’all? ...

2025-05-22T14:31:13Z

I’m curious: is this chart surprising to y’all?

Web performance experts, would love to see a performance ...

2025-05-22T13:44:42Z

Web performance experts, would love to see a performance breakdown of this web site: https://indieweb.social/@yvg/114550400917431252

the react and tailwind communities are terrible at this — any ...

2025-05-20T15:32:51Z

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the react and tailwind communities are terrible at this — any criticism is met with an avalanche of time-wasting replies

what tech companies haven’t done layoffs in the last 3 years? ...

2025-05-20T15:01:05Z

what tech companies *haven’t* done layoffs in the last 3 years? it’s time for a goodwill thread

✅ Server render ⚠️ Client render ⛔️ Proprietary ...

2025-05-16T22:12:57Z

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✅ Server render
⚠️ Client render
⛔️ Proprietary single-vendor edge runtimes that may or may not be around in a few years

11ty.dev now runs Eleventy clientside on the home page ...

2025-05-16T21:55:33Z

11ty.dev now runs Eleventy clientside on the home page https://neighborhood.11ty.dev/@11ty/114519676689929120

just checking if I could help (or if it was my fault)! sounds ...

2025-05-16T14:37:22Z

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just checking if I could help (or if it was my fault)! sounds like you got it figured out!