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Bio

Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://zachleat.com/is a builder for the web at IndieWeb Avatar for https://fontawesome.com/Font Awesome and the creator/maintainer of IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.devEleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 83 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of CloudCannon, Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS.

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Zach is a builder for the web at Font Awesome and the creator/maintainer of Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 83 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of CloudCannon, Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS.

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Zach is a builder for the web at <a href="https://fontawesome.com/">Font Awesome</a> and the creator/maintainer of <a href="https://www.11ty.dev">Eleventy (11ty)</a>, an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely <a href="https://www.zachleat.com/web/fonts/"><em>too fixated</em> on web fonts</a>. He has given <a href="https://www.zachleat.com/web/speaking/">83 talks in nine different countries</a> at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and <a href="https://www.zachleat.com/web/whitehouse/">The White House</a>. Formerly part of <a href="https://cloudcannon.com/">CloudCannon</a>, Netlify, <a href="https://www.filamentgroup.com/">Filament Group</a>, <a href="http://nejsconf.com/">NEJS CONF</a>, and <a href="http://nebraskajs.com">NebraskaJS</a>.

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Zach is a builder for the web at [Font Awesome](https://fontawesome.com/) and the creator/maintainer of [Eleventy (11ty)](https://www.11ty.dev), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely [_too fixated_ on web fonts](https://www.zachleat.com/web/fonts/). He has given [83 talks in nine different countries](https://www.zachleat.com/web/speaking/) at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and [The White House](https://www.zachleat.com/web/whitehouse/). Formerly part of Netlify, [Filament Group](https://www.filamentgroup.com/), [NEJS CONF](http://nejsconf.com/), and [NebraskaJS](http://nebraskajs.com).

Site History

Year Type Using Learn more…
2007 Software WordPress
2009 Host nearlyfreespeech.net
2013 Software Jekyll zachleat.com is Dead, Long Live zachleat.com
2018 Software Eleventy GitHub commit (too busy to blog this one, apparently!)
2022 Host Netlify Migrating My 16+ Year Old Web Site to Netlify in a Few Short Days

Photos

Just a picture of my face.
Picture taken by Andrey Davydchyk at CSS Minsk JS. Download JPEG version.
Photo of Zach Leatherman’s Bearded Face
Modified from above for avatar use.

Deprecated but saved for Posterity

A very bearded picture of my face.
Picture taken by Marc Thiele at SmashingConf Whistler. Download the original version.
An avatar with zachleat vertical text aside.
Deprecated.
The very first logo for this blog: Web 3.0 6 Bladed Razors and 7 Minute Abs
This web site was started in 2007 and was originally titled Web 3.0, 6 Bladed Razors, and 7 Minute Abs.