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synopsis: "Sustainability? Enshittification? I have some feelings about this."
imageURL: /img/eleventy-becomes-sigh-build-awesome/eleventy-logo.png
imageAlt: The old Eleventy logo.
mastodon_id: ""
mastodon_id: "116213694439138520"
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In case you haven't heard, Eleventy, the excellent static site generator that I
use for this very website has been acquired by Font Awesome. As a result, it
has been renamed to, *sigh*,
has been renamed, *sigh*,
[Build Awesome](https://www.11ty.dev/blog/build-awesome/). After seeing what
happened to [Shoelace](https://shoelace.style/), I'm apprehensive
and very much not looking forward to seeing what features get locked behind a
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While disappointed with this state of affairs, I'm not terribly surprised.
Beyond the matter of funding,
[as W. Evan Sheehan of The Darth Mall put it](https://darthmall.net/notes/2026/eleventy-build-awesome/)
:
[as W. Evan Sheehan of The Darth Mall put it](https://darthmall.net/notes/2026/eleventy-build-awesome/):
> …the vibe of open source in the JavaScript community is a little bit different than what I think of as the broader open source movement. Open source JavaScript projects often feel a little more tied to corporations than Linux, or Python, or NeoVim.
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software always remains free (as in speech). Under a strong copyleft license,
anyone can use the software for any purpose. They may study, change, improve,
and redistribute it. But unlike permissive licenses such as the MIT license,
they may *not* strip these rights from users at any point.
developers may *not* strip these rights from users at any point.
The goal of the free software movement is to create a
[commons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons) of software that anyone is