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2021 ×16
Eleventy Serverless (~~Eleventy Cloud~~) Thus Far Eleventy May 2021
Defer generating 400+ pages using Eleventy Cloud and On-demand Builders 📢 18 Eleventy Speaking8 min Video Apr 2021
How and Why I Removed 3000 Images from the Eleventy Docs Build 📢 1 Eleventy Speaking4 min Video Apr 2021
Powering Netlify’s Community Events with Structured Content (and a preview of Eleventy Cloud) 📢 9 Eleventy Speaking23 min Video Apr 2021
Content is Data—Sanity Open House Eleventy Speakingon March 25 Mar 2021
Image Ready v2—Developer Experience @ Eleventy 📢 33 Eleventy Speaking22 min Video Mar 2021
A Pandemic By Any Other Name 📢 48 Mar 2021
Built IT Better: Architecture feat.Jason Lengstorf andZach Leatherman Speaking58 min Video Mar 2021
Queue Code—“Live” Code without Errors 📢 59 Eleventy Project #19 Mar 2021
Unicode Range Interchange 📢 18 Web Fonts Project Mar 2021
This Web Site is a Tech Talk 📢 203 Speaking45 min Video #5 Feb 2021
Jamstack 101: Getting Started withEleventy, presented byAgility CMS Eleventy Speaking73 min Video Feb 2021
Barebones CSS for Fluid Images 📢 245 Research #2 Jan 2021
Don’t Shut Down Your Business! Instead UseEleventy Image 📢 162 Eleventy Project #11 Jan 2021
A little collection of theme-less Web Components 📢 30 Project Jan 2021
Images atJamstack Toronto Eleventy Speakingon January 20 Jan 2021
2020 ×21
Ruthlessly Eliminating Layout Shift on netlify.com 📢 159 #17 Nov 2020
SmashingConf Austin 2020 Speakingon October 13 Oct 2020
The State ofEleventy in Two Minutes Eleventy Speaking2 min Video Oct 2020
Eleventy and Vue, a match made to power Netlify.com Sep 2020
Eleventy Leaderboards v2 viaSpeedlify 📢 55 Project Aug 2020
Cloudflare’s Creative Corner with theNetlify team Speaking Aug 2020
Netlify’s Merry Band of 1 Million Developers 📢 14 Aug 2020
Bulk Generating OG Images 📢 64 Aug 2020
The Lighthouse Scores Will Continue Until Morale Improves 📢 27 Project Jul 2020
I added Lighthouse Scores to my Site’s Footer and You Can Too 📢 265 Project #9 Jul 2020
UseSpeedlify to Continuously Measure Site Performance 📢 551 Project #6 Jun 2020
Résumé/CV on the Jamstack 📢 55 Apr 2020
CSS Naked Day 📢 3 Apr 2020
Eleventy’s New Performance Leaderboard 📢 55 Eleventy Mar 2020
My Favorite Typinator Macros Feb 2020
Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS Omaha Eleventy Speaking Feb 2020
Speaker Spotlight: a chat with Vitaly Friedman Web Fonts Speaking19 min Video Feb 2020
Now Deploying toNetlify 📢 34 Jan 2020
A Love Letter toFilament Group 📢 123 Jan 2020
Let’s LearnEleventy! onLearn with Jason Eleventy Speakingon Jan 792 min Video Jan 2020
Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS Omaha Eleventy Speakingon Jan 7 Jan 2020
2019 ×36
The Origin Story of Container Queries 📢 133 Research Dec 2019
Building Exclusive Features For Open Collective Contributors on Netlify 📢 21 Eleventy Project Dec 2019
Shop Talk Show #390: Eleventy with Zach Leatherman Eleventy Speaking62 min Audio Dec 2019
Eleventy Documentation has moved to 11ty.dev Eleventy Dec 2019
HTTP Archive’s Web Almanac 2019—Web Fonts Edition Web Fonts Research Nov 2019
Own Your Content on Social Media Using the IndieWeb 📢 98 Speaking Oct 2019
Making a PWA out of the 1996 Space Jam Web Site 📢 14 Speaking Oct 2019
A look back at NEJS CONF, 2015–2019 📢 74 NEJS CONF Speaking Oct 2019
JAMstack_conf_sf 2019 Speakingon October 16–18 Oct 2019
I’m Taking Ownership of My Tweets 📢 28 Project Sep 2019
Two Browsers Walked Into a Scrollbar Research Sep 2019
A Featherweight Facepile 📢 35 Eleventy Project Aug 2019
NEJS CONF 2019 NEJS CONFon August 9 Aug 2019
Reactions to: An Honest Conversation About Burnout on JSParty 📢 24 Jul 2019
Bridgy for Webmentions with Brotli 📢 4 Jun 2019
Developing a Robust Font Loading Strategy for CSS-Tricks 📢 141 Web Fonts Research #7 Jun 2019
Week Notes №3 ending 14 Jun 2019 📢 3 Jun 2019
Smashing TV: The Five Whys of Web Font Loading Performance Web Fonts Speakingon June 13 Jun 2019
Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️—JS Party Episode #79 Eleventy Web Fonts Speaking67 min Audio Jun 2019
The Crushing Weight of the Facepile 📢 62 Jun 2019
Week Notes №2 ending 7 June 2019 📢 5 Jun 2019
Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans 📢 229 Eleventy Jun 2019
Week Notes №1 ending 24 May 2019 📢 7 May 2019
The Co-opetition of Team Web 📢 34 May 2019
font-display is Incompatible with Icon Fonts 📢 83 Web Fonts May 2019
Web Engineering Düsseldorf Web Fonts Speakingon May 16 May 2019
The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading Opinions 📢 30 Web Fonts Speaking May 2019
beyond tellerrand—Düsseldorf Speakingon May 13–15 May 2019
Google Fonts is Adding font-display 🎉 📢 121 Web Fonts #3 May 2019
NebraskaJS Omaha Speakingon May 7 May 2019
Navigate directly to a GitHub Issue Feb 2019
Eleventy Quick Tip №8: Trigger a Netlify Build Every Day with IFTTT Eleventy Feb 2019
Eleventy Quick Tip №7: Fetch GitHub Stargazers Count (and More) at Build Time Eleventy Jan 2019
Download a Twitter User’s Profile Image Jan 2019
Build your own Blog from Scratch using Eleventy Eleventy Jan 2019
Get all Font Sizes in use on a Web Page Jan 2019
2018 ×30
Working Draft Podcast: On Tour @ #perfnow 5/6 Web Fonts Speaking21 min Audio Dec 2018
Don’t Stop Learning ~~Frameworks~~ 📢 54 Dec 2018
Should I Use JavaScript to Load My Web Fonts? Web Fonts Research Nov 2018
Happy Birthday Eleventy! 🎉 📢 10 Eleventy Nov 2018
The Five Whys of Web Font Loading Performance 📢 4 Web Fonts Speaking46 min Video Nov 2018
performance.now(); the Web Performance Conference Speakingon November 8–9 Nov 2018
A Group of Web Font Repaints is called a Michael Serif Web Fonts Aug 2018
The Problem with font-display and Reflow 📢 45 Web Fonts Aug 2018
The Font Loading Checklist 📢 17 Web Fonts #8 Aug 2018
TalkScript Episode #14 NEJS CONF Speaking34 min Audio Aug 2018
Concatenate Conference Speakingon August 10–11 Aug 2018
NEJS CONF 2018 NEJS CONFon July 27 Jul 2018
The Life Expectancy of Digital Content Jun 2018
The Simplest Web Site That Could Possibly Work Well Eleventy NEJS CONF May 2018
Obnoxiously Readable Responsive Text with Viewport Units Web Fonts May 2018
preload with font-display: optional is an Anti-pattern 📢 47 Web Fonts Apr 2018
Import your Disqus Comments to Eleventy 📢 4 Eleventy Apr 2018
“The Compromise”—a Modern but Compatible Font Loading Strategy 📢 53 Web Fonts Apr 2018
Passing the Lead NebraskaJS Organizer Baton Mar 2018
Google Open Source Award for Eleventy Eleventy Mar 2018
imaging-heap, Measuring Responsive Image Efficiency Project Mar 2018
It’s Dangerous to Go Stallone. Take Glyphhanger 📢 4 Web Fonts Project Mar 2018
“A letter about Google AMP” Feb 2018
Web Fonts are ▢▢▢ Rocket Science Web Fonts Speaking47 min Video Feb 2018
Introducing Eleventy, a new Static Site Generator Eleventy Project #20 Feb 2018
SmashingConf London 2018 Speakingon February 7 Feb 2018
Making a Simple Web Site with the Simplest Static Site Generator, Level 2—Adding Filters 📢 1 Eleventy Jan 2018
Making a Simple Web Site with the Simplest Static Site Generator, Level 1 📢 1 Eleventy #10 Jan 2018
spider-pig Searches for Nodes that match a CSS Selector 📢 9 Project Jan 2018
Airing Out 2017’s Dirty Laundry Jan 2018
2017 ×23
23 Minutes of Work for Better Font Loading 📢 62 Web Fonts #13 Nov 2017
NebraskaJS Omaha Speakingon November 14 Nov 2017
Managing Font Loading CSS Was Painful—Not Anymore Web Fonts Project Nov 2017
A Collection of Web Font Loading Recipes 📢 1 Web Fonts Project Research Oct 2017
FOIT vs. FOUT, a Side by Side Comparison 📢 6 Web Fonts Project Oct 2017
A Historical Look at FOUT and FOIT 📢 130 Web Fonts Sep 2017
Web Standards Podcast #85 Web Fonts Speaking86 min Audio Sep 2017
CSS-Minsk-JS Speakingon September 10 Sep 2017
The Ten Twitter Commandments Speaking Aug 2017
The Web Font Loading Glossary 📢 1 Web Fonts Aug 2017
I made a style guide for my personal web site and you should too. 📢 3 Aug 2017
NEJS CONF 2017 NEJS CONFon July 21 Jul 2017
Font Aliasing, or How to Rename a Font in CSS 📢 10 Research #18 Jun 2017
Laissez-faire Font Smoothing and Anti-aliasing 📢 9 Research May 2017
Quick Demo: Animating on an Oval Path 📢 2 May 2017
Wait, WebP is actually worth it. 📢 10 Research Apr 2017
What Are You Excited About? Speaking Apr 2017
Selecthor: A Better way to Learn and Demo CSS Selectors 📢 4 Project Apr 2017
Randsom: A Random Web Fonts Ransom Note 📢 2 Project Apr 2017
Bernie Tweets Project Mar 2017
CSS-Tricks Video Screencasts #152: Font Loading Speaking57 min Video Jan 2017
Shop Talk Show #247: The Performance Equation Speaking72 min Audio Jan 2017
In Case You Missed It: 2016 Jan 2017
2016 ×17
No @font-face Syntax will ever be Bulletproof, Nor Should It Be. Web Fonts Dec 2016
faux-pas, Detecting Faux Web Font Rendering Project Dec 2016
Lazy Loading Web Fonts Is Probably Not What You Want 📢 3 Web Fonts Nov 2016
Separating Fact from Fiction on the Internet Speaking Sep 2016
I Wanted to Type a Number Research Aug 2016
NEJS CONF 2016 Recap NEJS CONFon August 26 Aug 2016
Beyond Code #4 at NEJS CONF 2015 Speaking3 min Video Aug 2016
A Comprehensive Guide to Font Loading Strategies 📢 293 Web Fonts #1 Jul 2016
CSS Position Sticky Speaking10 min Video Jun 2016
Web Fonts for President 2016 📢 10 Web Fonts #14 Apr 2016
The Web Fonts: Preloaded 📢 26 Web Fonts Research #12 Apr 2016
Trying out a new Font Stack 📢 1 Apr 2016
Web Font Anti-pattern: Data URIs 📢 18 Web Fonts Research Mar 2016
A Versatile 2KB of JS Speaking25 min Video Mar 2016
A Story About Proxy Filters Feb 2016
Critical Web Fonts 📢 6 Web Fonts Research #16 Jan 2016
In Case You Missed It: 2015 Jan 2016
2015 ×19
The Infinity Hamburger Menu Project Dec 2015
Using Custom Fonts Responsibly, an Akamai Animated Short Web Fonts Speaking5 min Video Dec 2015
Frameworks, not Blameworks Nov 2015
A Brief History of that Time You Used Web Fonts—SmashingConf Barcelona Web Fonts Speaking48 min Video Oct 2015
The Performance and Usability of Web Fonts—Velocity New York City 📢 2 Web Fonts Speaking42 min Video Oct 2015
Filament Group is Agency of the Year at Net Awards Sep 2015
A Hypocrite’s Guide to Public Speaking 📢 7 Speaking17 min Video Sep 2015
Changelog #166, NEJS CONF 2015 NEJS CONF Speaking69 min Audio Aug 2015
NEJS CONF 2015 Recap NEJS CONFon August 7 Aug 2015
Smashing Book #5 Web Fonts Jul 2015
The Mitt Romney Web Font Problem 📢 8 Web Fonts Research May 2015
The Performance and Usability of Font Loading—Velocity Santa Clara 📢 1 Web Fonts Speaking39 min Video May 2015
Tech Meetup at the White House 📢 6 Speaking3 min Video Apr 2015
Compatibility Tables Compendium 📢 9 Mar 2015
Better @font-face with Font Load Events—SmashingConf Whistler Web Fonts Speaking48 min Video Feb 2015
Flash of Faux Text—still more on Font Loading 📢 3 Web Fonts Research Jan 2015
Performance and Responsive Web Design (2015) Speaking67 min Video Jan 2015
How we use web fonts responsibly, or, avoiding a @font-face-palm Web Fonts Research Jan 2015
In Case You Missed It: 2014 Jan 2015
2014 ×13
The Making of fontfamily.io Web Fonts Speaking19 min Video Nov 2014
word-break Podcast #1 Speaking49 min Audio Nov 2014
WOFF2 See the Wizard, a Wonderful JavaScript Feature Test Web Fonts Project Oct 2014
A Font Family Reunion 📢 12 Web Fonts Project Sep 2014
Better @font-face with Font Load Events on Dev.Opera Web Fonts Research Sep 2014
The Perfect GIF 📢 7 Speaking12 min Video Sep 2014
W3C Status Banners 📢 2 Project Aug 2014
Tablesaw: A Flexible Tool for Responsive Tables Project Aug 2014
A Frugal and Simple Guide to Putting Lights on your Bike 📢 1 Jul 2014
Pastry Box: Impostor Syndrome Jun 2014
Bulletproof Icon Fonts—CSSConf Web Fonts Speaking26 min Video May 2014
Politespace, an unobtrusive alternative to input masks Project Apr 2014
Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts Web Fonts Project Research Jan 2014
2013 ×12
In Case You Missed It: 2013 📢 3 Dec 2013
Domain Swap: A Google Chrome Extension Project Dec 2013
The Elusive :target Feature Test 📢 2 Research Nov 2013
Impostor Syndrome 📢 8 Speaking7 min Video 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 📢 3 Project Jun 2013
Performance and Responsive Web Design (2013) 📢 5 Speaking61 min Video May 2013
zachleat.com is Dead, Long Live zachleat.com 📢 40 May 2013
Tool or Die, a Web Developer’s Workflow 📢 16 Speaking59 min Video Mar 2013
Side Projects (at Awesome Camp) Mar 2013
A Web Developer Fumbling with Social Media 📢 12 Jan 2013
2012 ×6
SocialCount, Faster & Lighter Social Networking Widgets Project Nov 2012
Performance in Responsive Web Design (2012) Nov 2012
A Front End Engineer’s Manifesto 📢 12 Project Speaking Sep 2012
CSS3 Job Transition 📢 3 May 2012
Let’s get parseIntimate. Project Feb 2012
Placeholder Title for Article about HTML5 Placeholders 📢 11 Research Feb 2012
2011 ×10
Deferreds and a Better Geolocation API 📢 3 Nov 2011
A Mobile Web Divided 📢 2 Aug 2011
Progressive Enhancement (at jQuery Omaha) Aug 2011
FitText + BigText: A Tale of Two Plugins 📢 6 Web Fonts May 2011
Pragmatic Progressive Enhancement 📢 1 May 2011
HTML5 vs. Native Applications, The Presentation 📢 7 Mar 2011
Raging Netflix Queue, a Google Chrome Extension 📢 8 Project Feb 2011
The JavaScript Testing Challenge Winner 📢 3 Feb 2011
Et tu, X-UA-Compatible? 📢 3 Research Feb 2011
BigText Makes Text Big 📢 73 Web Fonts Project #4 Jan 2011
An Update to The JavaScript Testing Challenge Jan 2011
2010 ×12
The JavaScript Testing Challenge 📢 8 Speaking5 min Video Nov 2010
Faking Onload for Link Elements 📢 3 Research Jul 2010
ALARMd is now on Github 📢 4 Jul 2010
Maiden Voyage of the DOM Sailbloat 📢 1 Project Jul 2010
A Race Against Time Pickers 📢 1 Jun 2010
Point, Charset, Match: Character Encoding in JavaScript 📢 1 Web Fonts Research Mar 2010
Internet Explorer Array.sort Unreliable 📢 13 Research Feb 2010
If the Menu Fitts, We Must Acquit 📢 8 Feb 2010
CSS 3 Text: A Tale of writing-mode Woe 📢 3 Web Fonts Research Feb 2010
Trash that “Back to Top” Link 📢 8 Feb 2010
The 24 Clock on ALARMd 📢 3 Jan 2010
DIY Webdings—CSS Sprites using @font-face 📢 13 Web Fonts Research Jan 2010
2009 ×9
Don’t Give Up on Internet Explorer Yet 📢 3 Dec 2009
Device Independence on the Open Web 📢 3 Aug 2009
Quick Performance Tip: jQuery and addClass 📢 2 Jun 2009
Adobe Reverts Flex Store to Open Web May 2009
Performance Caveat with jQuery Selectors and Live Events 📢 14 Research 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 📢 4 Jan 2009
Scare Your Visitors with this JavaScript Gravatar Plugin 📢 6 Project Jan 2009
2008 ×20
DOMContentLoaded Inconsistencies (in Browsers and JavaScript Libraries) 📢 1 Research Dec 2008
jQuery Bug: IE reports incorrect $.browser.version 📢 3 Oct 2008
Dear IE6: Please Cache my Images. 📢 3 Research Oct 2008
Relative URLs including the Domain 📢 2 Oct 2008
ALARMd is a Google Code Project Oct 2008
Fight Registrastination. Register to vote! Project Sep 2008
Writing a Front End Engineer’s Resume (or CV) 📢 6 Sep 2008
Emulating onhashchange without setInterval 📢 5 Research Aug 2008
Double Whammy: OpenID and Microformats May 2008
Selecting XML Nodes with JavaScript, or the Peril of getElementsByTagName 📢 8 Research May 2008
Javascript Objects are NOT JSON 📢 3 May 2008
Surnamespacing 📢 3 May 2008
Don’t Let the Door Hit You Onunload and Onbeforeunload 📢 10 Research #15 Apr 2008
Forgive My Feed Apr 2008
Rethinking JavaScript Grids and DataTables 📢 1 Apr 2008
ALARMd 2 Beta, with Google Calendar Integration 📢 12 Project Apr 2008
20000 Leagues Under the API: YouTube JavaScript Apr 2008
Code Like the Big Boys: Flickr 📢 3 Mar 2008
Tips for Programming JavaScript Functions 📢 1 Mar 2008
Architecture Choices: Callbacks and Events in JavaScript Mar 2008
Yet Another Pretty Date JavaScript 📢 25 Project Mar 2008
Minor Annoyances with Firefox Development Mar 2008
Specific Inheritance with TIBCO’s General Interface 📢 3 Mar 2008
PHP Pretty Date 📢 6 Project Feb 2008
Online Movie Rental Review – Amazon Unbox 📢 4 Jan 2008
2007 ×35
Quine using XHTML and JavaScript Dec 2007
Faster YUI DataTable with 5 Lines of Code 📢 1 Dec 2007
Problems with Looping through window.setInterval 📢 2 Dec 2007
enterval, an automatic setInterval chainer. Project Dec 2007
Speed up Including Google Analytics Nov 2007
Obscurity, Security, and Captcha 📢 1 Nov 2007
Forward Compatibility and JavaScript Nov 2007
Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [CSS] 📢 1 Oct 2007
Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [PHP] Oct 2007
Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [JavaScript] 📢 1 Oct 2007
Write More Efficient Javascript in YUI with CSS Selectors Project Sep 2007
Cross Domain XHR with Firefox 2 📢 18 Aug 2007
Namespacing outside of the YAHOO Namespace 📢 8 Aug 2007
Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 29 Seconds or Less! 📢 3 Aug 2007
ALARMd now supports URLs Aug 2007
maLArquee, Bringing Back the Marquee 📢 4 Project Aug 2007
Using Phing to automate JavaScript and CSS Minimization 📢 3 Aug 2007
YUI Code Review: YAHOO.namespace 📢 3 Aug 2007
Using DOM Query Libraries in YUI 📢 3 Jul 2007
8 Things the YUI Library Needs to Win Me Back 📢 7 Jul 2007
What Sound Does a Cow Make? MooTools. 📢 1 Jul 2007
20/20 Hindsight, a Look Back at ALARMd 📢 2 Jul 2007
JavaScript Frameworks and JSF 📢 6 Jul 2007
DOMDom, easy DOM Element Creation 📢 9 Project Jul 2007
Wake up to YouTube on my Internet Alarm Clock 📢 23 Project Jun 2007
Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 30 Seconds or Less! 📢 7 Jun 2007
Screen Readers and Listening at the Speed of Sound May 2007
Wash your mouth out with SOAP and the YUI Connection Manager 📢 3 May 2007
YUI DataTable and You: Making the Marriage Work 📢 7 Apr 2007
I-Frame Shims or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 📢 8 Apr 2007
JavaScript Code Coverage Tool for Firebug 📢 18 Project Apr 2007
Google Using YUI Grids CSS 📢 9 Apr 2007
Problems with YUI DataTable 📢 28 Apr 2007
YUI Button Lite Mar 2007
Logical XOR in JavaScript 📢 2 Project Mar 2007
Conservative Design Example: Hierarchical Options Mar 2007
Fundamental Problem with YUI Button 📢 1 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 📢 3 Feb 2007
Conservative Design: Hierarchical Select 📢 1 Feb 2007
Screen Printing, Fake Interfaces Part 1 Feb 2007
Checklist for Web Applications 📢 49 Feb 2007