Zach Leatherman

🫣 Go to https://www.zachleat.com/
🎈 Creator/Maintainer of Build Awesome/:11ty: @11ty https://www.11ty.dev/
🎉 Professional Hobbyist at :fontawesome: Font Awesome
🌾 A random person from Nebraska maintaining software
🏳️‍⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks
🧞 he/him/they
🐟 out of 🌊🌊
🕸️ Front of the front-end web developer
🔎 #searchable
💨 Web Performance: https://www.speedlify.dev/

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Last Notes

2026-04-17 14:32:31 UTC

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@nprofile…rtyq do you think folks are using it in a separate profile? The marketed tasks all mention access to automate private info

2026-04-17 14:25:58 UTC

are folks actually using this feature? seems like a wild risk of security exposure to give it unfettered access to all of your web sessions/tokens https://claude.com/claude-for-chrome
thinking about how this interacts with password manager browser extensions that automatically log-in to various sites (with 2FA too)

2026-01-13 16:36:03 UTC

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

2026-01-12 23:10:59 UTC

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@nprofile…4hqr (note: something in your toolchain is uniquely double posting your stuff)

2025-09-30 17:02:44 UTC

folks migrating away from hosting providers that hadn’t previously considered how tightly coupled their web framework was to said host are about to learn some things — I’m sorry and I wish you the best on your journey

2025-09-30 15:21:08 UTC

it has never been more clear that the good people of the web must work together

2025-08-28 13:50:42 UTC

Yay! `import.meta.resolve` is coming to Vitest https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/pull/8493 🎉🎉🎉

2025-08-25 22:17:15 UTC

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@nprofile…4stt somewhere, Google Tag Manager’s ears are tingling

2025-08-25 21:28:28 UTC

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how often are wordpress sites needing recovery though

2025-08-25 21:22:36 UTC

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@nprofile…n2ej I had to read it three times before I realized it said hero and not villain 😅

2025-08-25 21:19:42 UTC

🚩🚩🚩 “site recovery” is one of the highest profile features listed on wordpress.com — yikes

2025-08-25 18:21:49 UTC

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@nprofile…qpqm @nprofile…mf94 hah! I have the exact same problem with mine 😅

2025-08-25 17:54:33 UTC

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@nprofile…qpqm @nprofile…mf94 incredible longevity!

2025-08-25 16:43:00 UTC

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@nprofile…mf94 yeah! The Dell 2407WFP monitor listed there from 2007 has Composite inputs (and still works!)
But I’ve also had success with a composite to HDMI adapters too

2025-08-25 15:40:00 UTC

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@nprofile…5ch3 I’ll never forget that hot/cold bluetooth thermometer toggle 🏆🏆 (though I think that was a few years later iirc)

2025-08-25 15:37:48 UTC

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@nprofile…datw ah ah right, sorry — I was thrown off by the twitter reference!

2025-08-25 15:27:45 UTC

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@nprofile…datw aww what’s wrong with feedbin?

2025-08-25 13:39:54 UTC

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@nprofile…h75g thanks Anthony!

2025-08-25 13:39:18 UTC

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@nprofile…44ea hey, thanks!!

2025-08-25 13:38:57 UTC

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@nprofile…n2ej haha that is a wild 12-year-old quote 😅😅😅

2025-08-25 13:38:04 UTC

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@nprofile…5ch3 😅 I was going to ask how you remember these ten year old talks but I remember some of yours too! barcamp at slowdown!!

2025-08-23 12:45:34 UTC

Added a lot more detail to my /uses/ timeline, including software/hardware/consumer gear. Interesting to see what stuff has lasted the longest.
https://www.zachleat.com/uses/#uses-timeline

2025-08-22 23:06:27 UTC

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@nprofile…w92h ugh, well I hadn’t even considered that it was a profitbug

2025-08-22 21:26:57 UTC

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@nprofile…j8d0 @nprofile…q9ss good tip, I am already using Arq backup here, I just want to see how big the backup folder is without downloading it 😅

2025-08-22 21:25:08 UTC

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@nprofile…eve2 well I don’t care if it’s a database or files (or both) but I would like this feature

2025-08-22 20:39:21 UTC

It’s *wild* to me that drive.google.com has no option to see how large a folder is on disk 😭

2025-08-22 19:52:48 UTC

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@nprofile…93s3 oh wait, you’re using Claude to automatically convert your Astro project to 11ty? Fascinating

2025-08-22 18:48:10 UTC

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@nprofile…93s3 what fancy tool?

2025-08-22 18:44:22 UTC

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@nprofile…93s3 it’s always a good investment to understand how things work!

2025-08-22 15:05:04 UTC

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@nprofile…h9rq you’re very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it

2025-08-21 15:59:46 UTC

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@nprofile…y6tq “Eleven hooks and splices” …alright everyone, close up shop we have a winner for today

2025-08-20 22:15:01 UTC

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@nprofile…3rt3 @nprofile…luh7 this image is *bonkers* good https://robert.katzki.de/photos/2025/morning-surf

2025-08-20 20:34:01 UTC

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@nprofile…wfxt yeah man, I know that feeling. Time to write yourself an uncomfortably positive self-hype blog post about the cool things you’ve done

2025-08-20 20:26:25 UTC

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@nprofile…wfxt aw hell, *this* sucks — you do NOT suck. So sorry this is happening — don’t doubt yourself

2025-08-19 22:28:45 UTC

“When you help someone you help everyone” — Aunt May from Spiderman

2025-08-19 22:13:42 UTC

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@nprofile…xxea Wild! I do remember a few movies in this universe too!

2025-08-19 18:52:15 UTC

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@nprofile…2wxu thanks Bob!

2025-08-19 17:47:06 UTC

A note from my late Grandmother about Eleventy
https://www.zachleat.com/web/history-of-eleventy-name/

2025-08-09 01:39:23 UTC

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@nprofile…ud2y welllllllll I have some good news and bad news

2025-08-09 01:38:36 UTC

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@nprofile…sncq from my cold dead hands etc etc 😎

2025-08-08 22:08:45 UTC

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I suppose it’s a good thing I enjoy writing code 😅

2025-08-08 21:47:18 UTC

The amount of code I’ve had to write because Node’s vm.Module isn’t stable 😭😭😭😭

2025-08-08 21:08:40 UTC

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@nprofile…cnly I bet it will return!

2025-08-08 18:54:18 UTC

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@nprofile…93s3 😅😅😅 be careful out there

2025-08-08 16:24:56 UTC

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@nprofile…dk2r we may never know — unless the tool tells us

2025-08-08 16:19:34 UTC

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I’ve just read the term “semi-deterministic” 😅

2025-08-08 16:17:52 UTC

folks keep asking why the non-deterministic tools aren’t returning deterministic outputs, over and over again

2025-08-08 14:05:54 UTC

“dad’s out in the garage tuning up his ~~mustang~~ personal web site again”

2025-08-08 14:03:25 UTC

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@nprofile…cnly I already have two of the t-shirt and the hat is calling to me

2025-08-08 14:01:23 UTC

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@nprofile…tn2t well now I have conflicting thoughts

2025-08-08 13:33:54 UTC

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@nprofile…tn2t don’t make me get out the spray bottle, simon

2025-08-08 13:26:04 UTC

it is with no regrets that I must inform you that my entire personality is now @nprofile…zg5r merch
https://simplebits.shop/collections/goods

2025-08-06 20:37:26 UTC

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@nprofile…xhrn @nprofile…7lq3 you get the image direct from wikipedia and nothing more

2025-08-06 20:07:51 UTC

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@nprofile…7lq3
https://cdn.masto.host/fediversezachleatcom/media_attachments/files/114/983/623/050/942/843/original/7aac2107161d6ffc.png

2025-08-06 19:56:48 UTC

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@nprofile…7lq3 it is part of my life now that when things like this happen I run to view source to see if it might have been my fault 😅

2025-08-06 19:22:41 UTC

Since the fire goes viral and folks never hear about the fire department, y’all might be interested to know that the original content has been restored.
https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/114982482958968700

2025-08-06 14:41:56 UTC

I still want this: https://front-end.social/@ashur/110554709838029673

2025-08-06 14:36:51 UTC

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@nprofile…r5pd yeah! I’ve been thinking about how bad management can influence code and the cycle of how that code perpetuates.
Gotta have a good company environment to have good company code

2025-08-06 13:44:48 UTC

codebases can carry trauma — be careful out there

2025-08-06 13:22:21 UTC

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@nprofile…0zct Yay!!

2025-08-06 13:16:23 UTC

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@nprofile…pn60 @nprofile…dk2r HR IS IN BED WITH MANAGEMENT
*dragged away kicking and screaming*

2025-08-06 13:12:52 UTC

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@nprofile…dk2r …we should send all proprietary business secrets to OpenAI

2025-08-05 22:34:02 UTC

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adding some ESM support https://github.com/11ty/webc/pull/229

2025-08-05 18:31:34 UTC

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@nprofile…jm9n huh… that’s an interesting choice

2025-08-05 18:17:25 UTC

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@nprofile…jm9n what’s the behavior like with the reduced transparency user setting?

2025-08-05 15:17:49 UTC

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@nprofile…trsd oh no!! 😭

2025-08-05 13:33:46 UTC

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@nprofile…2vdw the pale blue dot!

2025-08-04 19:33:24 UTC

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@nprofile…6h3y they were so worried about the thought police that they didn’t even stop to police their own thoughts

2025-08-04 19:27:10 UTC

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@nprofile…6h3y I think it can hallucinate whatever I hallucinate that it hallucinates

2025-08-04 18:58:20 UTC

I anthropomorphized my pet rock to such a degree that we are now both hallucinating its sentience

2025-08-04 16:28:53 UTC

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peak user experience implies the existence of (silicon) valley user experience

2025-08-04 16:26:57 UTC

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@nprofile…4stt look, we all need to touch a little grass

2025-08-04 16:15:12 UTC

just checking in on the folks that said (years ago) that we needed to sacrifice user experience for developer productivity to see how their AI startups are doing now

2025-08-04 14:00:14 UTC

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@nprofile…z720 the results were SHOCKING!

2025-08-04 13:01:32 UTC

One weird trick to reduce Eleventy Image Build Times by 60%
https://www.zachleat.com/web/faster-builds-with-eleventy-img/

2025-08-01 21:29:24 UTC

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@nprofile…t8r5 😅😅😅 doing what I can 🥰

2025-08-01 21:02:43 UTC

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

2025-08-01 16:44:45 UTC

there’s something extremely rewarding about improving and iterating on a codebase for *years*

2025-07-31 13:45:52 UTC

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@nprofile…lfe5 (@11ty/client is the biggest thing right now but more to come!)

2025-07-31 01:19:51 UTC

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@nprofile…lfe5 well for starters it has one higher number in the version

2025-07-30 21:16:52 UTC

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well, I was brave and shipped https://www.zachleat.com/ building with Eleventy v4.0.0!
https://cdn.masto.host/fediversezachleatcom/media_attachments/files/114/944/258/392/427/921/original/7f358d998cc817d3.png

2025-07-30 21:07:59 UTC

Shipped some of the very first @nprofile…ku4a v4.0.0 canaries today — for only the bravest early adopters (for now) but we’re iterating!
v4.0.0-alpha.3 is only 16.2 MB on disk (down from 21.MB for v3.1.2!)
Some more detail here: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases

2025-07-30 18:05:46 UTC

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@nprofile…3fqr I think you and I may use static builds in different ways, given your description there!

2025-07-30 14:47:48 UTC

Loving @nprofile…damg’s navigation between his web site’s three subdomains.
Looks like an earlier version was documented here: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/consistent-nav-across-inconsistent-sites/

2025-07-30 13:32:37 UTC

sometimes we joke but this seems like a really accurate metaphor for static builds:
https://aus.social/@bnut/114939273626640543

2025-07-29 16:12:23 UTC

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

2025-07-28 15:06:30 UTC

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@nprofile…dk2r where are you at on Nimona, Dave

2025-07-25 13:57:31 UTC

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

2025-07-25 13:23:24 UTC

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@nprofile…y7jd I would be honored!

2025-07-25 13:01:19 UTC

Never write your own Date Parsing Library (I wrote my own Date Parsing Library)
https://www.zachleat.com/web/adventures-in-date-parsing/

2025-07-22 21:24:33 UTC

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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

2025-07-22 13:53:27 UTC

is it too much to ask that a software dependency be:
1. fast
2. permissive open-source licensed
3. lightweight in bundle cost
4. lightweight in installation size
5. well-maintained
6. accurate
7. able to run in all of the marginally different JavaScript runtimes
8. human sourced to avoid ethical and future copyright issues with AI
9. use modern APIs and without vestigial polyfill bloat
10. use best progressive enhancement and accessibility practices
(What would you add?)

2025-07-21 22:22:56 UTC

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

2025-07-21 22:22:44 UTC

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

2025-07-21 15:48:41 UTC

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anyway if you do a Replit/Astronomer CEO crossover meme it’ll probably do numbers

2025-07-21 15:47:20 UTC

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Context: https://bsky.app/profile/lookitup.baby/post/3lufqktym522f

2025-07-21 15:33:54 UTC

someone at Replit is adding “our AI probably won’t delete your production database any more” to their changelog release notes

2025-07-21 13:23:16 UTC

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

2025-07-18 21:49:19 UTC

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we usually swim in alpha/canary releases for awhile, so don’t get too upgrade-happy here 😅

2025-07-18 21:32:11 UTC

work has started on @nprofile…ku4a 4.0 👀