Weekly Recap: 8 March 2026

Happy International Women's Day!

International Women's Day also means the day the annual Women's March Malaysia will take place. You can read the march's 2026 demands on its official website.

March 3 was the Lantern Festival, also known as Chap Goh Mei in Malaysia. Coincidentally, a total lunar eclipse was visible in Malaysia on that day. The lunar eclipse also coincided with the month of Ramadan.

Unfortunately there was a rain at where I live, so I could not enjoy the special occasion of observing a total lunar eclipse.

On Friday, when my father was driving me in our family car to school, we got into a car accident. Our front car plate was damaged as a result.

Luckily, the accident was not serious, as our car was still operational, and I managed to arrived at my school campus without any injuries, though my father's right hand was sprained due to the impact happening while his hand was pressing the car horn.

This means this car of ours need to be sent for repair — again. Just two weeks ago, on the day we were about to travel back home after celebrating Lunar New Year in my parents' hometown, our very same car's front plate was damaged by the car of another villager, so we needed to send our car to a car repair shop.

Fortunately, we still have another car at home, but we had no way to expect we had to send the same car for repair twice within two weeks due to damage to the front plate.

On March 3, Eleventy, the static site generator that I use to build this very website, officially started to get rebranded to Build Awesome, with Font Awesome, which Eleventy has joined since September 2024, launching a Kickstarter campaign for Build Awesome.

While the Build Awesome campaign reached its funding goal in a day, there are a fair amount of Eleventy users expressing concerns about the rebrand. Eleventy's official blog post about the rebranding attempted to address some of the concerns, but unfortunately, on March 6, Font Awesome announced that they are pausing the Build Awesome Kickstarter campaign, citing email delivery issues, and planning to relaunch the campaign.

Personally, I am taking a wait-and-see approach; I have been using Eleventy to build my websites since April 2024, and it has become my favourite tool to build websites, to the extent that I gave two talks at THE Eleventy Meetup, so I am not ready to abandon Eleventy just yet. Furthermore, my hope is that Eleventy as a static site generator will remain free and open-source, and my process of rebuilding my websites with Eleventy should not be impacted.

That said, if you want to learn more about why there are Eleventy users worried about the rebrand, I recommend reading Brennan Kenneth Brown's blog posts on the subject:

• The End of Eleventy
• Build Awesome's Kickstarter is Cancelled