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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 18/09/2026

personally I believe today’s @fontawesome.com morning slack emoji kata deserves to be more widely appreciated

ed posts :school: :outbox_tray: :infinity:
noah posts :no_entry_sign: :you-want-more: :pencil2: :pencil2:
zach posts :no_entry_sign: :you-want-more: :books:
jory posts :no_entry_sign: :you-want-more: :teacher: :hankey: :eyes:

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 11/09/2026

it has some Founders from Bioshock vibes to it that make me uncomfortable 😅

A screenshot from Bioshock Infinite, showing a statue of a bearded founder

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 01/09/2026

Perf win: blog.fontawesome.com had an animated GIF poster image published recently (for an Aug 4 blog post). Changing the @11ty.dev Image plugin formats from "avif,auto" to "avif,webp,auto" added an animated WebP to the <picture> stack and saved 439kB of transfer weight! (nothing else changed) 🏆️

A non-animated screenshot of the animated poster image with Firefox DevTools opened to the Network panel. 352KB of Network traffic was transferred.

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 28/08/2026

oracle’s web site is winning on the Big Tech Website Leaderboard www.speedlify.dev/group/big-tech but not for a good reason: the website is… uh… not working

Oracle: This site is experiencing technical diffculty. We are aware of the issue and are working as quickly as possible to correct the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. To speak with an Oracle Sales representative…

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 25/08/2026

tried to visit dolly’s website dollyparton.com but unfortunately it uses wordpress 🥺

504 Gateway Timeout ERROR

The request could not be satisfied.

We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 25/08/2026

RIP Dolly. Our family just went to Dollywood *three weeks ago* and we got a little first-hand taste of the impact she’s had on the world. 332M books donated through her Imagination Library: imaginationlibrary.com

A photo I took at Dollywood, a large pink lit-up butterfly sign with the name Dolly in the middle in script

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 10/08/2026

was on vacation last week, what did I miss

weird horse art on a wall, three panes. notably the horse is giving me a side eye, and I am doing the same right back

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 21/07/2026

I was curious what the red/yellow cards used in the World Cup would look like with color vision deficiency (Protanopia shown). Seems like a player could be shown a card and not know the color. Does it matter with sufficient contrast and only 2 cards? Could be easily solved by adding a symbol.

An official referee holder for red and yellow cards, with the cards peaking out. A comparison is shown simulating Protanopia, where both cards are a muted shade of yellow.

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 23/06/2026

big tech continues their undefeated streak of shipping AR glasses that look dorky as hell and somehow hasn’t noticed the foolproof formula that’s been hiding in plain sight this entire time

Geordi La Forge points approvingly, while wearing his signature visor

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 16/06/2026

difficult to manage large bodies of water: the strait of hormuz, the lincoln memorial reflecting pool, the newly installed above-ground pool on the white house lawn

the white house with a poorly pasted above ground pool photo on the lawn

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 16/06/2026

uhh… TIL: <marquee direction="down" behavior="alternate"> <marquee behavior="alternate">This text will bounce</marquee> </marquee> developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 10/06/2026

feeling a certain way after seeing @dr-axel.de cited in a package.json docs search query after they took their website down citing “AI companies stealing my work” — seems like they should be compensated for this by the search engine company, no?

The "bin" field in package.json allows you to define executable files that can be run as commands from the terminal after installing the package. These executables can be scripts or binaries, and they are made available globally when the package is installed with the -g flag.
dev.to 2ality.com

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 09/06/2026

our best tree — nooooooo 😢

A tree split open at the trunk (picture taken in the dark)

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 03/06/2026

democracy is alive because the sun is still up

An I voted today sticker. A Superman smashes the klan comic book is out of focus

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 02/06/2026

run for political office in the midwest without wearing a carhartt jacket on the campaign trail challenge (impossible)

man wears a carhartt jacket and speaks to another person wearing a denim shirt

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 29/05/2026

you must reply, per my settings

11:46 am May 29, 2026: Everybody must reply

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 27/05/2026

what in the capital-D descender is going on here

how many ps are in google

There is only 1 "p" in the word Google (found in the lowercase g if you count its bottom loop, but strictly speaking, the letter "p" does not appear in the word at all).

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 22/05/2026

good luck! personally I wouldn’t recommend 40s for walking but it might be easier in this configuration

a person has two 40s bottles of malt liquor duct taped to their hands (this is called edward 40s hands)

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 20/05/2026

TIL Lighthouse is adding an Agentic Browsing metric: developer.chrome.com/docs/lightho... That CLS is listed as a sub-metric seems like a big ol’ code smell to me (and reveals some brittle implementation?): are agents relying on element dimensions?

1/2 Agentic Browsing (Lighthouse score report): Cumulative Layout Shift — 0.184

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 11/05/2026

appreciate it! I’m hoping this setting would have been enough to mitigate otherwise I will officially lose my shit 😅

Approval for running fork pull request workflows from contributors

Choose which subset of users will require approval before running workflows on their pull requests. Both the pull request author and the actor of the pull request event triggering the workflow will be checked to determine if approval is required. If approval is required, a user with write access to the repository must approve the pull request workflow to be run.

Require approval for first-time contributors who are new to GitHub
Only users who are both new on GitHub and who have never had a commit or pull request merged into this repository will require approval to run workflows.

Require approval for first-time contributors
Only users who have never had a commit or pull request merged into this repository will require approval to run workflows.

Require approval for all external contributors
All users that are not a member or owner of the repository and not a member of the 11ty organization will require approval to run workflows.

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 22/04/2026

Marginally annoyed that Intl.RelativeTimeFormat#format doesn’t support "millisecond" as a unit. I get it: why would anyone want to show milliseconds??

Launching (balloon) in 522,520,809 Milliseconds

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 17/04/2026

those browser bars were such an 88×31 vibe

Screenshot of Internet Explorer with a whole slew of browser extensions and toolbars installed

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 01/04/2026

nasa.gov is having some trouble: “HTTP 429 Too Many Requests”

A screenshot of Safari with the devtools console showing many 429 HTTP errors

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 17/03/2026

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

a screenshot of claude’s status page, showing lots of degraded performance logs and outages

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 11/03/2026

I’m really curious what’s above this store

A brick storefront arch with large lettering reading “THE FOLD”

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 07/03/2026

Pretty good sticker haul from @londonwebstandards.org State of the Browser last week! #SotB #SotB26

A variety of stickers spread out across a desk mat. Notably a bootleg 11ty sticker with pirate swords

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 27/02/2026

Here we see the renouned @letorey.co.uk giving a tour of London ahead of @londonwebstandards.org‘ #SotB

Dave is wearing a red coat and red hat and is gesturing with hands out and palms up. A large sign in the background reads Welcome to the Barbican

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 06/02/2026

a gentle criticism that modals like this are not the user experience of a social network that is friendly to hyperlinks

Modal: Leaving Bluesky: This link is taking you to the following website: … Buttons for Go back and Visit site.

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 06/02/2026

let’s be completely fair here — it should be more like this

the mustache is a little bushier than the last iteration

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 22/01/2026

OH! Wild! I just noticed the original audio track that it somehow detected as Russian (but is actually English)

YouTube screenshot showing Audio Track menu: Russian original and Auto-dubbed English (US)

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 19/12/2025

first draft of zero configuration typescript (with dependency mapping) in @11ty.dev is working — weeeeeeeeeeee

~/Temp/eleventy-type-stripping ᐅ npx @11ty/eleventy --serve
Zero config TypeScript configuration file!
[11ty] Writing ./_site/index.html from ./index.11ty.ts
[11ty] Wrote 1 file in 0.04 seconds (v4.0.0-alpha.7, eleventy.config.ts)
[11ty] Watching…
[11ty] Server at http://localhost:8080/

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 19/12/2025

Look, you’re asking the wrong guy. Makes me think of:

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 07/12/2025

happy holidays y’all! 🎄

A closeup of a well lit Christmas tree focused on a silver bauble. A possum is holding on to a smaller red bauble

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 03/12/2025

We all hate it when we drive our hot-dog shaped cars through an office building window, am I right??

Tim Robinson stands in a hot dog costume looking confused

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 02/12/2025

This took a lot of tedious work but I’m now npm token free, weee! The entire @11ty.dev ecosystem is now using Trusted Publishers (docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publ...)

Screenshot of npm Access Tokens (Showing Rows 1 to 0 of 0)

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 21/11/2025

The 80px vertical page shift from “This issue has been moved to a discussion” clunking in on an already loaded page will be my villain origin story. Bring back toasts, GitHub! 🥸

This issue has been moved to a discussion

Go to the discussion ->

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 21/11/2025

I have elevated to a new plane of open source existence. (we were at 428 open issues in October)

The header on GitHub for 11ty/eleventy, tabs for Code and Issues (199) shown

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 20/11/2025

went on a small side quest this morning and added an AI Mode toggle to my blog posts e.g. www.zachleat.com/web/adventur...

A screenshot of a blog post subheader on my web site, showing social activity, post date, and a disabled toggle labeled AI Mode

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 31/10/2025

the double u-u has a lovely ghostbusters quality to it

A horned monster with red eyes and fangs from Ghostbusters named Zuul.

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