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!
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Zach Leatherman
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Zach Leatherman
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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
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Feb 24, 2026
Love seeing these. Let’s get a full #StickerCheck thread going over here: @Wilto@front-end.social
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Zach Leatherman
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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
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Feb 22, 2026
Watching the inimitable Brandi Carlile stream a fundraiser concert for Minneapolis live right now.
https://veeps.com/brandicarlile/10bee30f-604a-40a8-9c39-6a0a6553d878
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Zach Leatherman
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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
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Feb 20, 2026
My personal blog turns 19 years old today
×466 blog posts
×3 tech stacks
×4 different web hosts
×3,991,865 pageviews
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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
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Feb 02, 2026
minotaur implies the existence of a maxotaur (and they should be small)
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@zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com which one do you want? Fast and furious, polite or slow clapping?
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@wtrmt@mastodon.social I prefer a slow, awkward, solo clap thank you
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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
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May 01, 2025
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)
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Zach Leatherman
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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
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Apr 24, 2025
WORKING ON A WILD @eleventy@fosstodon.org IDEA TODAY
IT IS WILD
started with 110 errors in the refactor, down to 66 now…
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Zach Leatherman
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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
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Nov 17, 2022
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.
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