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Zach Leatherman
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🎈 Creator/Maintainer of @11ty.dev
🧰 Professional Hobbyist at @fontawesome.com
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🐘 https://zachleat.com/@zachleat

🐟 out of 🌊 ✅ Front of the Front-end ✅ Static Sites 🚾 Web Components 🏁 Web Perf
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ryelle.codes
New CSS-flavored blog post: How and when text wraps changes in different languages, which can make visually balancing headings tricky. Here I describe two cases, Korean and Japanese, and some neat CSS to help.
Typography troubles: Balancing lines in Japanese & Korean - ryelle codes
Text wrapping works differently across languages. Here’s a look at how text-wrap: balance affects Japanese and Korean text—and what to do about it.
ryelle.codes
April 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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cassidoo.co
You might have seen it in the past, but in case you haven't looked recently, GitHub has a couple really nice font sets:

Mona Sans & Hubot Sans:
github.com/mona-sans

Monaspace:
monaspace.githubnext.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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una.im
You know that annoying experience on mobile websites where you need to find the little close button and can't swipe a menu closed?

The solution is simpler than you think.

With basic CSS scroll APIs, you can get built-in interruptible swipe gestures 🥳
January 16, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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papa.yaga.gay
omw!
a blue and white helicopter is flying over a desert landscape
ALT: a blue and white helicopter is flying over a desert landscape
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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chriscoyier.net
ooo I hadn't seen @robinrendle.bsky.social's file system site design yet robinrendle.com

and @davatron5000.bsky.social's so screw it I'm going full monospace followup daverupert.com
README
Designer, writer, developer.
robinrendle.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM
zachleat.com
in the hacker news comments section, please send help
January 16, 2026 at 3:46 PM
zachleat.com
always bet on CSS.
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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molly.wiki
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
markscrivens.bsky.social Frank’s Wild Spurs 🏆 @markscrivens.bsky.social · 2d
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
sarahp.bsky.social Sarah Perez @sarahp.bsky.social · 2d
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
January 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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londonwebstandards.org
We only need to get 113 followers to get to 2000. Can we do that before #SotB26?

2026.stateofthebrowser.com
SotB14 | State of the Browser
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of State of the Browser, a yearly one-day, single-track conference with widely-varying talks about the modern web, accessibility, web standards, and more, organised b...
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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bell.bz
Go to personalsit.es

Hit the “go to a random site link”

Enjoy
PersonalSit.es
Personal sites are sick as hell, so this site was built so we can all discover each other's. This directory of links are by folks that want to share their site with the world.
personalsit.es
January 15, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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zachleat.com
tfw your web site is static
calm monkey is relaxing in water, eyes closed
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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jhey.dev
2025: made stuff
2026: make more stuff 🧑‍🍳
January 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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lynnandtonic.com
Some work news! fireship.dev/uidotdev-and...
ui.dev and Fireship join forces
ui.dev and Fireship are merging! Here are some answers to some questions you may have.
fireship.dev
January 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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dansinker.com
How I'm dealing with my stress: I bought a 3d printer and am producing 100 whistles at a time. 1000 heading to Minneapolis tomorrow.
January 15, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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kevinpowell.co
:nth-child() was upgraded (a long time ago, but no one seems to know about it)

youtube.com/shorts/rep-C...
nth-child was upgraded
YouTube video by Kevin Powell
youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:35 PM
zachleat.com
the rapture happened in 2016 but no one made the cut
January 14, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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sherrard.glaittli.net
In the short time I’ve been working with @11ty.dev I have been able to do way more than I would had been able to do with WordPress in the same amount of time.

What a wonderful project.

preprod.glaittli.net
Sherrard Ewing Glaittli - Information Architect
preprod.glaittli.net
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
zachleat.com
I think I found a Node.js bug! github.com/nodejs/node/...
`require.cache` entries missing `children` for dynamically imported CommonJS TypeScript files · Issue #61385 · nodejs/node
Version v24.13.0 Platform 25.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 25.1.0: Mon Oct 20 19:33:36 PDT 2025; root:xnu-12377.41.6~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6030 arm64 Subsystem No response What steps will reproduce the bug?...
github.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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letorey.co.uk
I wrote something because I an angry.
#imagine
letorey.co.uk/leets/imagine/
Imagine | letorey.co.uk
In support of the hunger strikers
letorey.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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piccalil.li
Temporal is the Date system we always wanted in JavaScript. It's extremely close to being available so Mat Marquis thought it would be a good idea to explain exactly what is better about this new JavaScript date system.

piccalil.li/blog/date-is...
Date is out, Temporal is in
Temporal is the Date system we always wanted in JavaScript. It's extremely close to being available so Mat Marquis thought it would be a good idea to explain exactly what is better about this new JavaScript...
piccalil.li
January 7, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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fontawesome.com
This week's icon puzzle:
A sequence of four icons showing a plus sign, an angry emoji face with symbols over its mouth, the number two, and a sad emoji face with a bandage on its head.
January 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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webdevs.firefox.com
Firefox 147 just landed & it's pretty huge in terms of web features:

🎉 CSS anchor positioning
🎉 The navigation API
🎉 View transition types
🎉 Brotli support in Compression/DecompressionStream
🎉 CSS module imports

And more!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/147
Firefox 147 release notes for developers (Beta) - Mozilla | MDN
This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 147 that affect developers. Firefox 147 is the current Beta version of Firefox and ships on January 13, 2026.
developer.mozilla.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
zachleat.com
if you want stable and reliable software, give developers stable and reliable employment
January 13, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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konnaire.bsky.social
Who else is building weird websites in 2026? Show me all the weird websites you love, or are building
January 13, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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londonwebstandards.org
If you are a Student learning Web Tech or a Lecturer teaching Web Tech let us know we have FREE tickets for you for #SotB26
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
SotB14 | State of the Browser
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of State of the Browser, a yearly one-day, single-track conference with widely-varying talks about the modern web, accessibility, web standards, and more, organised b...
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:32 PM