I have returned from @webstandards@mastodon.world’ State of the Browser (#SotB #SotB26) feeling incredibly grateful to have been able to attend (and speak). An urgent and evergreen reminder that building a community around inclusion, diversity, and the safety to speak hard truths even when they aren’t popular is now more important than ever — good people of the web, unite!
Zach Leatherman
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🎈 Maintainer of
@11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev https://www.11ty.dev/
🎉 Web Builder at
Font Awesome
🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software
🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer
🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks
🌍 Keep building for the Web
🧞 he/him/they
🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝
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Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Love seeing these. Let’s get a full #StickerCheck thread going over here: @Wilto@front-end.social
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Watching the inimitable Brandi Carlile stream a fundraiser concert for Minneapolis live right now.
https://veeps.com/brandicarlile/10bee30f-604a-40a8-9c39-6a0a6553d878
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
My personal blog turns 19 years old today
×466 blog posts
×3 tech stacks
×4 different web hosts
×3,991,865 pageviews
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
minotaur implies the existence of a maxotaur (and they should be small)
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Really enjoying working with https://vitest.dev/ on a project that needs to be tested in Node, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome!
My favorite bits:
1. Easy to setup headless browsers with Browser Mode
2. CLI runs in watch mode by default (and not on CI)
3. Has all the `assert` APIs I was used to
4. test.skipIf 🏆
5. `only` works without modifying the CLI command (I know why Node test runner does this but it’s proven more annoying than helpful)
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
WORKING ON A WILD @eleventy@fosstodon.org IDEA TODAY
IT IS WILD
started with 110 errors in the refactor, down to 66 now…
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
Follow along to learn about web development news, best practices that “don’t work,” and web standards that are “not the future.” 🫣 Go to https://www. zachleat.com/ 🎈 Maintainer of :11ty: @ 11ty https://www. 11ty.dev/ 🎉 Web Builder at :fontawesome: Font Awesome 🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software 🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 🌍 Keep building for the Web 🧞 he/him/they 🚐 Minivan Buddies 🤝 🔎 # searchable
We are in the midst of another Google Reader-level community disruption.
It’s a good time to reset, take stock, clean house, and own your content!
If you don’t yet have your own web site—it’s a good time to start!
1. The most crucial piece is ownership of the domain name.
2. Then add content (it can just be plain HTML!)
3. Iterate on it! Make it better, but more importantly—make it yours.