11ty goes fully independent

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

11ty creator Zach Leatherman is taking the open source site generator fully independent in 2024 and he’s back on the pod to tell us why, how & what we all can do to help.

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Sponsors:

• Clerk – Clerk is a complete suite of embeddable UIs, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards to authenticate and manage your users.
• Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. Neon separates storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
• Speakeasy – Production-ready, Enterprise-resilient, best-in-class SDKs crafted in minutes. Speakeasy takes care of the entire SDK workflow to save you significant time, delivering SDKs to your customers in minutes with just a few clicks! Create your first SDK for free!

Featuring:

• Zach Leatherman – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• I Need Your Help to Make 11ty Fully Independent and Sustainable in 2024
• An Organizer’s Retrospective on the 11ty Conference
• xkcd: Dependency

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

فصول

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Clerk (00:00:39)

https://clerk.com

3. A hoy hoy! (00:03:58)

4. Welcoming back Zach (00:04:39)

5. 11ty elevator pitch (00:06:36)

6. Recent history (00:07:42)

7. The community (00:10:46)

8. Gatsby's approach (00:14:35)

9. TypeScript... (00:18:33)

10. Stagnation vs progress (00:23:32)

11. Sponsor: Neon (00:25:35)

https://neon.tech

12. Web Components (00:27:36)

13. Zach's npm components (00:30:23)

14. Obligatory AI chapter (00:35:22)

15. Moar npm components (00:45:19)

16. Knowledge sharing (00:52:25)

17. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:56:04)

https://speakeasyapi.dev/

18. 11ty Conf (00:59:41)

19. The NebraskaJS site (01:08:45)

20. How can we help? (01:10:10)

21. Keep building for the web! (01:12:19)

22. Next up on the pod (join ++) (01:13:22)

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