Font Awesome just rebranded 11ty as "Build Awesome" in al $40k Kickstarter.
We've seen this before. Gatsby. Stackbit. NetlifyCMS. Every attempt to monetize the SSG space fails because the people who care about static sites don't want a subscription.
🔗 blog.brennanbrown.ca/the-end-of-e...
piechowski.io/post/git-com...
Git Commands for figuring out which files are important in a codebase. I always think about figuring out commands to do this sort of thing but somebody else has prepared them for me! Thank you!
I just published a deep-dive into the 250-hour build behind syntaqlite, a SQLite formatter and LSP I built using AI agents.
AI agents were the only reason built this after 8 years of wanting but there's a psychological toll to AI-assisted engineering.
The post-mortem:
lalitm.com/post/buildin...
Anyway, I'm excited to play with ardour!
On one side, money is important for the sustainability of the project, on the other hand, it's a BIG hurdle if you want people to contribute if building the project is this hard.
It seems weird for an open-source project to make it this hard to build and repeatedly say "hey building this is hard" so people can pay money for the prebuilt binaries. I'm in two minds about it being good for the long-term health of the project.
I just built ardour from scratch and they are right that this is not for the faint of heart. I managed to do it using brew libraries (which they don't recommend) and using the suggestions from here:
zeyus.com/_vault/ardour/
windows setup pitching data scraping to me like bart and lisa begging to go to Itchy and Scratchy Land
I did a talk! At Ruby Wellington on using passkeys/webauthn in Ruby/rails!
Check it out:
youtu.be/ScL66ID2mes
It seems we can now customize the select element, right? right?!
Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/P... via @codepen.io
i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)
you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS
lyra.horse/x86css/
I thought this was like A WHOLE THING. "The boss level of accessibility tasks" and all that. News to me.
We just converted a non-<dialog> modal to <dialog> just to get the trapping, and I'm keeping it because it actually fixes a little bug I saw where a late-loading editor steals focus out.
The best podcast of 2025 - Shell Game. An experiment in making a company with AI agents. Equal parts informative, fascinating and funny.
www.shellgame.co
I’ve been hearing lots of people complain about it but I might try watch it now I see someone enjoyed it!
It's just a blogpost, Michael. What could it take? 5 minutes?
Time for my big year end blogpost about the Atmosphere.
From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it.
We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.
There are countless websites that generate color palettes, but I needed a reusable package for my own apps. So I built dittoTones. 🟣
It mimics the perceptual DNA (Lightness/Chroma curves) of popular systems and blends them with your target hue → meodai.github.io/dittoTones/
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A favorite every single year. RIP, Kirsty and Shane. 🎄🎅🏻💚
Look Amy I press ONE button on my microwave and if I need the food to be hotter I press it more times
A human developer would … never lie about that … 👀
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
A tale of two static site hosts
A post about moving my personal site to Cloudflare pages from Azure blob storage.
www.elliotclyde.nz/blog/a-tale-...
I like
Post here from Eakan Gopalakrishnan who moved off azure for the same reason:
www.softwarecraftsperson.com/posts/2025-0...
I got mad at azure for moving from their old CDN and basically making me pay $20 a month for https so I moved to cloudflare pages. It was such a day and night experience. Cloudflare pages is so easy to set up. If you’re using Azure storage to host a static website, time to switch.
