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  1. 2020 ×6
  2. 🇺🇸 SmashingConf Austin 2020 Speakingon June 9 Jun 2020
  3. Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS Omaha EleventySpeaking Feb 2020
  4. Now Deploying to netlify’s AvatarNetlify 📢 34 #3 Jan 2020
  5. A Love Letter to filamentgroup’s AvatarFilament Group 📢 123 #8 Jan 2020
  6. Let’s Learn Eleventy!—Learn With Jason EleventySpeakingon Jan 792 min Video Jan 2020
  7. 🇺🇸 Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS Omaha EleventySpeakingon Jan 7 Jan 2020
  8. 2019 ×30
  9. The Origin Story of Container Queries 📢 132Research #6 Dec 2019
  10. Building Exclusive Features For Open Collective Contributors on Netlify 📢 19EleventyProject Dec 2019
  11. Shop Talk Show #390: Eleventy with Zach Leatherman EleventySpeaking62 min Audio Dec 2019
  12. Eleventy Documentation has moved to 11ty.dev Eleventy Dec 2019
  13. HTTP Archive’s Web Almanac 2019—Web Fonts Edition Web FontsResearch Nov 2019
  14. Own Your Content on Social Media Using the IndieWeb 📢 98Speaking Oct 2019
  15. Making a PWA out of the 1996 Space Jam Web Site 📢 14Speaking Oct 2019
  16. A look back at NEJS CONF, 2015–2019 📢 48NEJS CONFSpeaking Oct 2019
  17. 🇺🇸 JAMstack_conf_sf 2019 Speakingon October 16–18 Oct 2019
  18. I’m Taking Ownership of My Tweets 📢 27Project #15 Sep 2019
  19. Two Browsers Walked Into a Scrollbar Research Sep 2019
  20. A Featherweight Facepile 📢 35EleventyProject Aug 2019
  21. NEJS CONF 2019 NEJS CONFon August 9 Aug 2019
  22. Reactions to: An Honest Conversation About Burnout on JSParty 📢 24 Jul 2019
  23. Bridgy for Webmentions with Brotli 📢 4 Jun 2019
  24. Developing a Robust Font Loading Strategy for CSS-Tricks 📢 136Web FontsResearch #4Highlight Jun 2019
  25. Smashing TV: The Five Whys of Web Font Loading Performance Web FontsSpeakingon June 13 Jun 2019
  26. Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️—JS Party Episode #79 EleventyWeb FontsSpeaking67 min Audio Jun 2019
  27. The Crushing Weight of the Facepile 📢 32 Jun 2019
  28. Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans 📢 229Eleventy #12 Jun 2019
  29. The Co-opetition of Team Web 📢 34 May 2019
  30. font-display is Incompatible with Icon Fonts 📢 83Web Fonts #17 May 2019
  31. 🇩🇪 Web Engineering Düsseldorf Web FontsSpeakingon May 16 May 2019
  32. The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading Opinions 📢 30Web FontsSpeaking May 2019
  33. 🇩🇪 beyond tellerrand—Düsseldorf Speakingon May 13–15 May 2019
  34. Google Fonts is Adding font-display 🎉 📢 120Web Fonts #2 May 2019
  35. 🇺🇸 NebraskaJS Omaha Speakingon May 7 May 2019
  36. Eleventy Quick Tip №8: Trigger a Netlify Build Every Day with IFTTT Eleventy Feb 2019
  37. Eleventy Quick Tip №7: Fetch GitHub Stargazers Count (and More) at Build Time Eleventy Jan 2019
  38. Build your own Blog from Scratch using Eleventy Eleventy Jan 2019
  39. 2018 ×29
  40. Working Draft Podcast: On Tour @ #perfnow 5/6 Web FontsSpeaking21 min Audio Dec 2018
  41. Don’t Stop Learning Frameworks Dec 2018
  42. Should I Use JavaScript to Load My Web Fonts? Web FontsResearch Nov 2018
  43. Happy Birthday Eleventy! 🎉 📢 3Eleventy Nov 2018
  44. The Five Whys of Web Font Loading Performance 📢 4Web FontsSpeaking46 min Video Nov 2018
  45. 🇳🇱 performance.now(); the Web Performance Conference Speakingon November 8–9 Nov 2018
  46. A Group of Web Font Repaints is called a Michael Serif Web Fonts Aug 2018
  47. The Problem with font-display and Reflow 📢 6Web Fonts Aug 2018
  48. The Font Loading Checklist 📢 1Web Fonts #7 Aug 2018
  49. TalkScript Episode #14 NEJS CONFSpeaking34 min Audio Aug 2018
  50. 🇳🇬 Concatenate Conference Speakingon August 10–11 Aug 2018
  51. NEJS CONF 2018 NEJS CONFon July 27 Jul 2018
  52. The Life Expectancy of Digital Content Jun 2018
  53. The Simplest Web Site That Could Possibly Work Well EleventyNEJS CONF May 2018
  54. Obnoxiously Readable Responsive Text with Viewport Units Web Fonts May 2018
  55. preload with font-display: optional is an Anti-pattern 📢 6Web Fonts Apr 2018
  56. Import your Disqus Comments to Eleventy 📢 4Eleventy Apr 2018
  57. “The Compromise”—a Modern but Compatible Font Loading Strategy 📢 13Web Fonts Apr 2018
  58. Passing the Lead NebraskaJS Organizer Baton Mar 2018
  59. Google Open Source Award for Eleventy Eleventy Mar 2018
  60. It’s Dangerous to Go Stallone. Take Glyphhanger Web FontsProjectHighlight Mar 2018
  61. “A letter about Google AMP” Feb 2018
  62. Web Fonts are ▢▢▢ Rocket Science Web FontsSpeaking47 min Video Feb 2018
  63. Introducing Eleventy, a new Static Site Generator EleventyProjectHighlight Feb 2018
  64. 🇬🇧 SmashingConf London 2018 Speakingon February 7 Feb 2018
  65. Making a Simple Web Site with the Simplest Static Site Generator, Level 2—Adding Filters Eleventy Jan 2018
  66. Making a Simple Web Site with the Simplest Static Site Generator, Level 1 Eleventy Jan 2018
  67. spider-pig Searches for Nodes that match a CSS Selector Project Jan 2018
  68. Airing Out 2017’s Dirty Laundry Jan 2018
  69. 2017 ×23
  70. 23 Minutes of Work for Better Font Loading 📢 23Web Fonts #9 Nov 2017
  71. 🇺🇸 NebraskaJS Omaha Speakingon November 14 Nov 2017
  72. Managing Font Loading CSS Was Painful—Not Anymore Web FontsProject Nov 2017
  73. A Collection of Web Font Loading Recipes 📢 1Web FontsProjectResearch Oct 2017
  74. FOIT vs. FOUT, a Side by Side Comparison 📢 2Web FontsProject Oct 2017
  75. A Historical Look at FOUT and FOIT 📢 110Web Fonts Sep 2017
  76. Web Standards Podcast #85 Web FontsSpeaking86 min Audio Sep 2017
  77. 🇧🇾 CSS-Minsk-JS Speakingon September 10 Sep 2017
  78. The Ten Twitter Commandments Speaking Aug 2017
  79. The Web Font Loading Glossary Web Fonts #18 Aug 2017
  80. I made a style guide for my personal web site and you should too. 📢 3 Aug 2017
  81. NEJS CONF 2017 NEJS CONFon July 21 Jul 2017
  82. Font Aliasing, or How to Rename a Font in CSS 📢 9Research #16Highlight Jun 2017
  83. Laissez-faire Font Smoothing and Anti-aliasing 📢 8ResearchHighlight May 2017
  84. Quick Demo: Animating on an Oval Path 📢 2 May 2017
  85. Wait, WebP is actually worth it. 📢 10Research Apr 2017
  86. What Are You Excited About? Speaking Apr 2017
  87. Selecthor: A Better way to Learn and Demo CSS Selectors 📢 4Project Apr 2017
  88. Randsom: A Random Web Fonts Ransom Note Project Apr 2017
  89. Bernie Tweets Project Mar 2017
  90. CSS-Tricks Video Screencasts #152: Font Loading Speaking57 min Video Jan 2017
  91. Shop Talk Show #247: The Performance Equation Speaking72 min Audio Jan 2017
  92. In Case You Missed It: 2016 Jan 2017
  93. 2016 ×16
  94. No @font-face Syntax will ever be Bulletproof, Nor Should It Be. Web FontsHighlight Dec 2016
  95. Lazy Loading Web Fonts Is Probably Not What You Want 📢 3Web FontsHighlight Nov 2016
  96. Separating Fact from Fiction on the Internet Speaking Sep 2016
  97. I Wanted to Type a Number ResearchHighlight Aug 2016
  98. NEJS CONF 2016 Recap NEJS CONFon August 26 Aug 2016
  99. Beyond Code #4 at NEJS CONF 2015 Speaking3 min Video Aug 2016
  100. A Comprehensive Guide to Font Loading Strategies 📢 100Web Fonts #1Highlight Jul 2016
  101. CSS Position Sticky Speaking10 min Video Jun 2016
  102. Web Fonts for President 2016 📢 10Web Fonts #10 Apr 2016
  103. The Web Fonts: Preloaded 📢 4Web FontsResearch #11Highlight Apr 2016
  104. Trying out a new Font Stack 📢 1 Apr 2016
  105. Web Font Anti-pattern: Data URIs 📢 18Web FontsResearchHighlight Mar 2016
  106. A Versatile 2KB of JS Speaking25 min Video Mar 2016
  107. A Story About Proxy Filters Feb 2016
  108. Critical Web Fonts 📢 2Web FontsResearch #13Highlight Jan 2016
  109. In Case You Missed It: 2015 Jan 2016
  110. 2015 ×19
  111. The Infinity Hamburger Menu Project Dec 2015
  112. Using Custom Fonts Responsibly, an Akamai Animated Short Web FontsSpeaking5 min Video Dec 2015
  113. Frameworks, not Blameworks Nov 2015
  114. 🇪🇸 A Brief History of that Time You Used Web Fonts—SmashingConf Barcelona Web FontsSpeaking48 min Video Oct 2015
  115. 🇺🇸 The Performance and Usability of Web Fonts—Velocity New York City 📢 1Web FontsSpeaking42 min Video Oct 2015
  116. Filament Group is Agency of the Year at Net Awards Sep 2015
  117. A Hypocrite’s Guide to Public Speaking 📢 1Speaking17 min VideoHighlight Sep 2015
  118. Changelog #166, NEJS CONF 2015 NEJS CONFSpeaking69 min Audio Aug 2015
  119. NEJS CONF 2015 Recap NEJS CONFon August 7 Aug 2015
  120. Smashing Book #5 Web Fonts Jul 2015
  121. The Mitt Romney Web Font Problem 📢 5Web FontsResearchHighlight May 2015
  122. 🇺🇸 The Performance and Usability of Font Loading—Velocity Santa Clara 📢 1Web FontsSpeaking39 min Video May 2015
  123. 🇺🇸 Tech Meetup at the White House 📢 1Speaking3 min VideoHighlight Apr 2015
  124. Compatibility Tables Compendium 📢 9 Mar 2015
  125. 🇨🇦 Better @font-face with Font Load Events—SmashingConf Whistler Web FontsSpeaking48 min VideoHighlight Feb 2015
  126. Flash of Faux Text—still more on Font Loading 📢 2Web FontsResearch #19Highlight Jan 2015
  127. Performance and Responsive Web Design (2015) Speaking67 min Video Jan 2015
  128. How we use web fonts responsibly, or, avoiding a @font-face-palm Web FontsResearch Jan 2015
  129. In Case You Missed It: 2014 Jan 2015
  130. 2014 ×13
  131. The Making of fontfamily.io Web FontsSpeaking19 min Video Nov 2014
  132. word-break Podcast #1 Speaking49 min Audio Nov 2014
  133. WOFF2 See the Wizard, a Wonderful JavaScript Feature Test Web FontsProject Oct 2014
  134. A Font Family Reunion 📢 11Web FontsProjectHighlight Sep 2014
  135. Better @font-face with Font Load Events on Dev.Opera Web FontsResearchHighlight Sep 2014
  136. The Perfect GIF 📢 7Speaking12 min Video Sep 2014
  137. W3C Status Banners 📢 2Project Aug 2014
  138. Tablesaw: A Flexible Tool for Responsive Tables ProjectHighlight Aug 2014
  139. A Frugal and Simple Guide to Putting Lights on your Bike 📢 1 Jul 2014
  140. Pastry Box: Impostor Syndrome Jun 2014
  141. 🇺🇸 Bulletproof Icon Fonts—CSSConf Web FontsSpeaking26 min Video May 2014
  142. Politespace, an unobtrusive alternative to input masks Project Apr 2014
  143. Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts Web FontsProjectResearchHighlight Jan 2014
  144. 2013 ×12
  145. In Case You Missed It: 2013 📢 3 Dec 2013
  146. Domain Swap: A Google Chrome Extension Project Dec 2013
  147. The Elusive :target Feature Test 📢 2ResearchHighlight Nov 2013
  148. Impostor Syndrome 📢 8Speaking7 min VideoHighlight Oct 2013
  149. A Nodecopter Informercial (at HOW Conf) Sep 2013
  150. A Sliver of What I Learned at JSConf 2013 Jun 2013
  151. You Should Follow Fewer People on Twitter 📢 3Project Jun 2013
  152. Performance and Responsive Web Design (2013) 📢 5Speaking61 min Video May 2013
  153. zachleat.com is Dead, Long Live zachleat.com 📢 2 May 2013
  154. Tool or Die, a Web Developer’s Workflow 📢 16Speaking59 min VideoHighlight Mar 2013
  155. Side Projects (at Awesome Camp) Mar 2013
  156. A Web Developer Fumbling with Social Media 📢 12 Jan 2013
  157. 2012 ×6
  158. SocialCount, Faster & Lighter Social Networking Widgets ProjectHighlight Nov 2012
  159. Performance in Responsive Web Design (2012) Nov 2012
  160. A Front End Engineer’s Manifesto 📢 12ProjectSpeakingHighlight Sep 2012
  161. CSS3 Job Transition 📢 3 May 2012
  162. Let’s get parseIntimate. Project Feb 2012
  163. Placeholder Title for Article about HTML5 Placeholders 📢 11ResearchHighlight Feb 2012
  164. 2011 ×10
  165. Deferreds and a Better Geolocation API 📢 3 Nov 2011
  166. A Mobile Web Divided 📢 2 Aug 2011
  167. Progressive Enhancement (at jQuery Omaha) Aug 2011
  168. FitText + BigText: A Tale of Two Plugins 📢 6Web Fonts #20Highlight May 2011
  169. Pragmatic Progressive Enhancement 📢 1Highlight May 2011
  170. HTML5 vs. Native Applications, The Presentation 📢 7 Mar 2011
  171. Raging Netflix Queue, a Google Chrome Extension 📢 8Project Feb 2011
  172. The JavaScript Testing Challenge Winner 📢 3 Feb 2011
  173. Et tu, X-UA-Compatible? 📢 3ResearchHighlight Feb 2011
  174. BigText Makes Text Big 📢 73Web FontsProject #5Highlight Jan 2011
  175. An Update to The JavaScript Testing Challenge Jan 2011
  176. 2010 ×12
  177. The JavaScript Testing Challenge 📢 8Speaking5 min Video Nov 2010
  178. Faking Onload for Link Elements 📢 3ResearchHighlight Jul 2010
  179. ALARMd is now on Github 📢 4 Jul 2010
  180. Maiden Voyage of the DOM Sailbloat 📢 1Project Jul 2010
  181. A Race Against Time Pickers 📢 1 Jun 2010
  182. Point, Charset, Match: Character Encoding in JavaScript 📢 1Web FontsResearch Mar 2010
  183. Internet Explorer Array.sort Unreliable 📢 13ResearchHighlight Feb 2010
  184. If the Menu Fitts, We Must Acquit 📢 8 Feb 2010
  185. CSS 3 Text: A Tale of writing-mode Woe 📢 3Web FontsResearch Feb 2010
  186. Trash that “Back to Top” Link 📢 8 Feb 2010
  187. The 24 Clock on ALARMd 📢 3 Jan 2010
  188. DIY Webdings—CSS Sprites using @font-face 📢 13Web FontsResearchHighlight Jan 2010
  189. 2009 ×9
  190. Don’t Give Up on Internet Explorer Yet 📢 3 Dec 2009
  191. Device Independence on the Open Web 📢 3Highlight Aug 2009
  192. Quick Performance Tip: jQuery and addClass 📢 2 Jun 2009
  193. Adobe Reverts Flex Store to Open Web May 2009
  194. Performance Caveat with jQuery Selectors and Live Events 📢 14Research May 2009
  195. Jonathan Sharp at The Ajax Experience Feb 2009
  196. ALARMd Unix Time Format for 1234567890 Day Feb 2009
  197. Registration Forms Suck, Let’s Mitigate Suckiness 📢 4 Jan 2009
  198. Scare Your Visitors with this JavaScript Gravatar Plugin 📢 6Project Jan 2009
  199. 2008 ×20
  200. DOMContentLoaded Inconsistencies (in Browsers and JavaScript Libraries) 📢 1ResearchHighlight Dec 2008
  201. jQuery Bug: IE reports incorrect $.browser.version 📢 3 Oct 2008
  202. Dear IE6: Please Cache my Images. 📢 3Research Oct 2008
  203. Relative URLs including the Domain 📢 2 Oct 2008
  204. ALARMd is a Google Code Project Oct 2008
  205. Fight Registrastination. Register to vote! Project Sep 2008
  206. Writing a Front End Engineer’s Resume (or CV) 📢 6 Sep 2008
  207. Emulating onhashchange without setInterval 📢 5ResearchHighlight Aug 2008
  208. Double Whammy: OpenID and Microformats May 2008
  209. Selecting XML Nodes with JavaScript, or the Peril of getElementsByTagName 📢 8ResearchHighlight May 2008
  210. Javascript Objects are NOT JSON 📢 3 May 2008
  211. Surnamespacing 📢 3 May 2008
  212. Don’t Let the Door Hit You Onunload and Onbeforeunload 📢 10Research #14Highlight Apr 2008
  213. Forgive My Feed Apr 2008
  214. Rethinking JavaScript Grids and DataTables 📢 1 Apr 2008
  215. ALARMd 2 Beta, with Google Calendar Integration 📢 12ProjectHighlight Apr 2008
  216. 20000 Leagues Under the API: YouTube JavaScript Apr 2008
  217. Code Like the Big Boys: Flickr 📢 3 Mar 2008
  218. Tips for Programming JavaScript Functions 📢 1 Mar 2008
  219. Architecture Choices: Callbacks and Events in JavaScript Mar 2008
  220. Yet Another Pretty Date JavaScript 📢 25ProjectHighlight Mar 2008
  221. Minor Annoyances with Firefox Development Mar 2008
  222. Specific Inheritance with TIBCO’s General Interface 📢 3 Mar 2008
  223. PHP Pretty Date 📢 6Project Feb 2008
  224. Online Movie Rental Review – Amazon Unbox 📢 4 Jan 2008
  225. 2007 ×35
  226. Quine using XHTML and JavaScript Dec 2007
  227. Faster YUI DataTable with 5 Lines of Code 📢 1 Dec 2007
  228. Problems with Looping through window.setInterval 📢 2 Dec 2007
  229. enterval, an automatic setInterval chainer. Project Dec 2007
  230. Speed up Including Google Analytics Nov 2007
  231. Obscurity, Security, and Captcha 📢 1 Nov 2007
  232. Forward Compatibility and JavaScript Nov 2007
  233. Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [CSS] 📢 1 Oct 2007
  234. Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [PHP] Oct 2007
  235. Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [JavaScript] 📢 1 Oct 2007
  236. Write More Efficient Javascript in YUI with CSS Selectors Project Sep 2007
  237. Cross Domain XHR with Firefox 2 📢 18 Aug 2007
  238. Namespacing outside of the YAHOO Namespace 📢 8 Aug 2007
  239. Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 29 Seconds or Less! 📢 3 Aug 2007
  240. ALARMd now supports URLs Aug 2007
  241. maLArquee, Bringing Back the Marquee 📢 4Project Aug 2007
  242. Using Phing to automate JavaScript and CSS Minimization 📢 3 Aug 2007
  243. YUI Code Review: YAHOO.namespace 📢 3 Aug 2007
  244. Using DOM Query Libraries in YUI 📢 3 Jul 2007
  245. 8 Things the YUI Library Needs to Win Me Back 📢 7 Jul 2007
  246. What Sound Does a Cow Make? MooTools. 📢 1 Jul 2007
  247. 20/20 Hindsight, a Look Back at ALARMd 📢 2 Jul 2007
  248. JavaScript Frameworks and JSF 📢 6 Jul 2007
  249. DOMDom, easy DOM Element Creation 📢 9Project Jul 2007
  250. Wake up to YouTube on my Internet Alarm Clock 📢 23ProjectHighlight Jun 2007
  251. Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 30 Seconds or Less! 📢 7 Jun 2007
  252. Screen Readers and Listening at the Speed of Sound May 2007
  253. Wash your mouth out with SOAP and the YUI Connection Manager 📢 3 May 2007
  254. YUI DataTable and You: Making the Marriage Work 📢 7 Apr 2007
  255. I-Frame Shims or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 📢 8 Apr 2007
  256. JavaScript Code Coverage Tool for Firebug 📢 18Project Apr 2007
  257. Google Using YUI Grids CSS 📢 9Highlight Apr 2007
  258. Problems with YUI DataTable 📢 28 Apr 2007
  259. YUI Button Lite Mar 2007
  260. Logical XOR in JavaScript 📢 2Project Mar 2007
  261. Conservative Design Example: Hierarchical Options Mar 2007
  262. Fundamental Problem with YUI Button 📢 1 Mar 2007
  263. OMG SOA Mar 2007
  264. Conservative Design Example: Multiple Option List Mar 2007
  265. Conservative Design: Command Line Interface Mar 2007
  266. Namespaces in Ext DomQuery Mar 2007
  267. Beaten to the Spiked Punch Mar 2007
  268. Conservative Design: Option List Feb 2007
  269. Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements 📢 3 Feb 2007
  270. Conservative Design: Hierarchical Select 📢 1 Feb 2007
  271. Screen Printing, Fake Interfaces Part 1 Feb 2007
  272. Checklist for Web Applications Feb 2007