- 2017
- A Historical Look at FOUT and FOIT Sep 2017
- Web Standards Podcast #85 Sep 2017
- Scheduled CSS-Minsk-JS Sep 2017
- The Ten Twitter Commandments Aug 2017
- The Web Font Loading Glossary Aug 2017
- I made a style guide for my personal web site and you should too. Aug 2017
- NEJS CONF 2017 Jul 2017
- Font Aliasing, or How to Rename a Font in CSS Jun 2017
- Laissez-faire Font Smoothing and Anti-aliasing May 2017
- Quick Demo: Animating on an Oval Path May 2017
- Wait, WebP is actually worth it. Apr 2017
- What Are You Excited About? Apr 2017
- Selecthor: A Better way to Learn and Demo CSS Selectors Apr 2017
- Randsom: A Random Web Fonts Ransom Note Apr 2017
- Bernie Tweets Mar 2017
- CSS-Tricks Video Screencasts #152: Font Loading Jan 2017
- Shop Talk Show #247: The Performance Equation Jan 2017
- In Case You Missed It: 2016 Jan 2017
- 2016
- No @font-face Syntax will ever be Bulletproof, Nor Should It Be. Dec 2016
- Lazy Loading Web Fonts Is Probably Not What You Want Nov 2016
- I Wanted to Type a Number Aug 2016
- NEJS CONF 2016 Recap Aug 2016
- Beyond Code #4 at NEJS CONF 2015 Aug 2016
- A Comprehensive Guide to Font Loading Strategies Jul 2016
- CSS Position Sticky Jun 2016
- Web Fonts for President 2016 Apr 2016
- The Web Fonts: Preloaded Apr 2016
- Trying out a new Font Stack Apr 2016
- Web Font Anti-pattern: Data URIs Mar 2016
- A Versatile 2KB of JS Mar 2016
- A Story About Proxy Filters Feb 2016
- Critical Web Fonts Jan 2016
- In Case You Missed It: 2015 Jan 2016
- 2015
- The Infinity Hamburger Menu Dec 2015
- Frameworks, not Blameworks Nov 2015
- A Brief History of that Time You Used Web Fonts—SmashingConf Barcelona Oct 2015
- The Performance and Usability of Web Fonts—Velocity New York City Oct 2015
- A Hypocrite’s Guide to Public Speaking Sep 2015
- Changelog #166, NEJS CONF 2015 Aug 2015
- NEJS CONF 2015 Recap Aug 2015
- The Mitt Romney Web Font Problem May 2015
- The Performance and Usability of Font Loading—Velocity Santa Clara May 2015
- Tech Meetup at the White House Apr 2015
- Compatibility Tables Compendium Mar 2015
- Better @font-face with Font Load Events—SmashingConf Whistler Feb 2015
- Flash of Faux Text—still more on Font Loading Jan 2015
- Performance and Responsive Web Design (2015) Jan 2015
- How we use web fonts responsibly, or, avoiding a @font-face-palm Jan 2015
- In Case You Missed It: 2014 Jan 2015
- 2014
- The Making of fontfamily.io Nov 2014
- word-break Podcast #1 Nov 2014
- WOFF2 See the Wizard, a Wonderful JavaScript Feature Test Oct 2014
- A Font Family Reunion Sep 2014
- Better @font-face with Font Load Events on Dev.Opera Sep 2014
- The Perfect GIF Sep 2014
- W3C Status Banners Aug 2014
- Tablesaw: A Flexible Tool for Responsive Tables Aug 2014
- A Frugal and Simple Guide to Putting Lights on your Bike Jul 2014
- Pastry Box: Impostor Syndrome Jun 2014
- Bulletproof Icon Fonts—CSSConf May 2014
- Politespace, an unobtrusive alternative to input masks Apr 2014
- Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts Jan 2014
- 2013
- In Case You Missed It: 2013 Dec 2013
- Domain Swap: A Google Chrome Extension Dec 2013
- The Elusive :target Feature Test Nov 2013
- Impostor Syndrome Oct 2013
- A Nodecopter Informercial (at HOW Conf) Sep 2013
- A Sliver of What I Learned at JSConf 2013 Jun 2013
- You Should Follow Fewer People on Twitter Jun 2013
- Performance and Responsive Web Design (2013) May 2013
- zachleat.com is Dead, Long Live zachleat.com May 2013
- Tool or Die, a Web Developer’s Workflow Mar 2013
- Side Projects (at Awesome Camp) Mar 2013
- A Web Developer Fumbling with Social Media Jan 2013
- 2012
- SocialCount, Faster & Lighter Social Networking Widgets Nov 2012
- Performance in Responsive Web Design (2012) Nov 2012
- A Front End Engineer’s Manifesto Sep 2012
- CSS3 Job Transition May 2012
- Let’s get parseIntimate. Feb 2012
- Placeholder Title for Article about HTML5 Placeholders Feb 2012
- 2011
- Deferreds and a Better Geolocation API Nov 2011
- A Mobile Web Divided Aug 2011
- Progressive Enhancement (at jQuery Omaha) Aug 2011
- FitText + BigText: A Tale of Two Plugins May 2011
- Pragmatic Progressive Enhancement May 2011
- HTML5 vs. Native Applications, The Presentation Mar 2011
- Raging Netflix Queue, a Google Chrome Extension Feb 2011
- The JavaScript Testing Challenge Winner Feb 2011
- Et tu, X-UA-Compatible? Feb 2011
- BigText Makes Text Big Jan 2011
- An Update to The JavaScript Testing Challenge Jan 2011
- 2010
- The JavaScript Testing Challenge Nov 2010
- Faking Onload for Link Elements Jul 2010
- ALARMd is now on Github Jul 2010
- Maiden Voyage of the DOM Sailbloat Jul 2010
- A Race Against Time Pickers Jun 2010
- Point, Charset, Match: Character Encoding in JavaScript Mar 2010
- Internet Explorer Array.sort Unreliable Feb 2010
- If the Menu Fitts, We Must Acquit Feb 2010
- CSS 3 Text: A Tale of writing-mode Woe Feb 2010
- Trash that “Back to Top” Link Feb 2010
- The 24 Clock on ALARMd Jan 2010
- DIY Webdings – CSS Sprites using @font-face Jan 2010
- 2009
- Don’t Give Up on Internet Explorer Yet Dec 2009
- Device Independence on the Open Web Aug 2009
- Quick Performance Tip: jQuery and addClass Jun 2009
- Adobe Reverts Flex Store to Open Web May 2009
- Performance Caveat with jQuery Selectors and Live Events May 2009
- Jonathan Sharp at The Ajax Experience Feb 2009
- ALARMd Unix Time Format for 1234567890 Day Feb 2009
- Registration Forms Suck, Let’s Mitigate Suckiness Jan 2009
- Scare Your Visitors with this JavaScript Gravatar Plugin Jan 2009
- 2008
- DOMContentLoaded Inconsistencies (in Browsers and JavaScript Libraries) Dec 2008
- jQuery Bug: IE reports incorrect $.browser.version Oct 2008
- Dear IE6: Please Cache my Images. Oct 2008
- Relative URLs including the Domain Oct 2008
- ALARMd is a Google Code Project Oct 2008
- Fight Registrastination. Register to vote! Sep 2008
- Writing a Front End Engineer’s Resume (or CV) Sep 2008
- Emulating onhashchange without setInterval Aug 2008
- Double Whammy: OpenID and Microformats May 2008
- Selecting XML Nodes with JavaScript (Peril of getElementsByTagName) May 2008
- Javascript Objects are NOT JSON May 2008
- Surnamespacing May 2008
- Don’t Let the Door Hit You Onunload and Onbeforeunload Apr 2008
- Forgive My Feed Apr 2008
- Rethinking JavaScript Grids and DataTables Apr 2008
- ALARMd 2 Beta, with Google Calendar Integration Apr 2008
- 20000 Leagues Under the API: YouTube JavaScript Apr 2008
- Code Like the Big Boys: Flickr Mar 2008
- Tips for Programming JavaScript Functions Mar 2008
- Architecture Choices: Callbacks and Events in JavaScript Mar 2008
- Yet Another Pretty Date JavaScript Mar 2008
- Minor Annoyances with Firefox Development Mar 2008
- Specific Inheritance with TIBCO’s General Interface Mar 2008
- PHP Pretty Date Feb 2008
- Online Movie Rental Review – Amazon Unbox Jan 2008
- 2007
- Quine using XHTML and JavaScript Dec 2007
- Faster YUI DataTable with 5 Lines of Code Dec 2007
- Problems with Looping through window.setInterval Dec 2007
- enterval, an automatic setInterval chainer. Dec 2007
- Speed up Including Google Analytics Nov 2007
- Obscurity, Security, and Captcha Nov 2007
- Forward Compatibility and JavaScript Nov 2007
- Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [CSS] Oct 2007
- Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [PHP] Oct 2007
- Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [JavaScript] Oct 2007
- Write More Efficient Javascript in YUI with CSS Selectors Sep 2007
- Cross Domain XHR with Firefox 2 Aug 2007
- Namespacing outside of the YAHOO Namespace Aug 2007
- Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 29 Seconds or Less! Aug 2007
- ALARMd now supports URLs Aug 2007
- maLArquee, Bringing Back the Marquee Aug 2007
- Using Phing to automate JavaScript and CSS Minimization Aug 2007
- YUI Code Review: YAHOO.namespace Aug 2007
- Using DOM Query Libraries in YUI Jul 2007
- 8 Things the YUI Library Needs to Win Me Back Jul 2007
- What Sound Does a Cow Make? MooTools. Jul 2007
- 20/20 Hindsight, a Look Back at ALARMd Jul 2007
- JavaScript Frameworks and JSF Jul 2007
- DOMDom, easy DOM Element Creation Jul 2007
- Wake up to YouTube on my Internet Alarm Clock Jun 2007
- Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 30 Seconds or Less! Jun 2007
- Screen Readers and Listening at the Speed of Sound May 2007
- Wash your mouth out with SOAP and the YUI Connection Manager May 2007
- YUI DataTable and You: Making the Marriage Work Apr 2007
- I-Frame Shims or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Apr 2007
- JavaScript Code Coverage Tool for Firebug Apr 2007
- Google Using YUI Grids CSS Apr 2007
- Problems with YUI DataTable Apr 2007
- YUI Button Lite Mar 2007
- Logical XOR in JavaScript Mar 2007
- Conservative Design Example: Hierarchical Options Mar 2007
- Fundamental Problem with YUI Button Mar 2007
- OMG SOA Mar 2007
- Conservative Design Example: Multiple Option List Mar 2007
- Conservative Design: Command Line Interface Mar 2007
- Namespaces in Ext DomQuery Mar 2007
- Beaten to the Spiked Punch Mar 2007
- Conservative Design: Option List Feb 2007
- Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements Feb 2007
- Conservative Design: Hierarchical Select Feb 2007
- Screen Printing, Fake Interfaces Part 1 Feb 2007
- Checklist for Web Applications Feb 2007
Zach is a Front End Engineer / Web Developer with Filament Group. He has given talks at Smashing Conference, O’Reilly Velocity, CSSConf, and The White House. He also herds the NebraskaJS meetup and NEJS CONF. Read more about Zach »