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  1. 2019 ×25
  2. Own Your Content on Social Media Using the IndieWeb 📢 99Speaking #5 Oct 2019
  3. Making a PWA out of the 1996 Space Jam Web Site 📢 13Speaking #15 Oct 2019
  4. A look back at NEJS CONF, 2015–2019 📢 48NEJS CONFSpeaking Oct 2019
  5. 🇺🇸 JAMstack_conf_sf 2019 Speakingon October 16–18 Oct 2019
  6. I’m Taking Ownership of My Tweets 📢 28Project #7 Sep 2019
  7. Two Browsers Walked Into a Scrollbar Research Sep 2019
  8. A Featherweight Facepile 📢 35EleventyProject Aug 2019
  9. NEJS CONF 2019 NEJS CONFon August 9 Aug 2019
  10. Reactions to: An Honest Conversation About Burnout on JSParty 📢 24 Jul 2019
  11. Bridgy for Webmentions with Brotli 📢 4 Jun 2019
  12. Developing a Robust Font Loading Strategy for CSS-Tricks 📢 133Web FontsResearch #3 Jun 2019
  13. Smashing TV: The Five Whys of Web Font Loading Performance Web FontsSpeakingon June 13 Jun 2019
  14. Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️—JS Party Episode #79 EleventyWeb FontsSpeaking1 hour 7 min Audio Jun 2019
  15. The Crushing Weight of the Facepile 📢 32 Jun 2019
  16. Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans 📢 213Eleventy #9 Jun 2019
  17. The Co-opetition of Team Web 📢 34 May 2019
  18. font-display is Incompatible with Icon Fonts 📢 83Web Fonts #12 May 2019
  19. 🇩🇪 Web Engineering Düsseldorf Web FontsSpeakingon May 16 May 2019
  20. The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading Opinions 📢 13Web FontsSpeaking May 2019
  21. 🇩🇪 beyond tellerrand—Düsseldorf Speakingon May 13–15 May 2019
  22. Google Fonts is Adding font-display 🎉 📢 120Web Fonts #1 May 2019
  23. 🇺🇸 NebraskaJS Omaha Speakingon May 7 May 2019
  24. Eleventy Quick Tip №8: Trigger a Netlify Build Every Day with IFTTT Eleventy Feb 2019
  25. Eleventy Quick Tip №7: Fetch GitHub Stargazers Count (and More) at Build Time Eleventy Jan 2019
  26. Build your own Blog from Scratch using Eleventy Eleventy Jan 2019
  27. 2018 ×29
  28. Working Draft Podcast: On Tour @ #perfnow 5/6 Web FontsSpeaking21 min Audio Dec 2018
  29. Don’t Stop Learning Frameworks Dec 2018
  30. Should I Use JavaScript to Load My Web Fonts? Web FontsResearch Nov 2018
  31. Happy Birthday Eleventy! 🎉 Eleventy Nov 2018
  32. The Five Whys of Web Font Loading Performance 📢 4Web FontsSpeaking46 min Video Nov 2018
  33. 🇳🇱 performance.now(); the Web Performance Conference Speakingon November 8–9 Nov 2018
  34. A Group of Web Font Repaints is called a Michael Serif Web Fonts Aug 2018
  35. The Problem with font-display and Reflow Web Fonts Aug 2018
  36. The Font Loading Checklist 📢 1Web Fonts #4 Aug 2018
  37. TalkScript Episode #14 NEJS CONFSpeaking34 min Audio Aug 2018
  38. 🇳🇬 Concatenate Conference Speakingon August 10–11 Aug 2018
  39. NEJS CONF 2018 NEJS CONFon July 27 Jul 2018
  40. The Life Expectancy of Digital Content Jun 2018
  41. The Simplest Web Site That Could Possibly Work Well EleventyNEJS CONF May 2018
  42. Obnoxiously Readable Responsive Text with Viewport Units Web Fonts May 2018
  43. preload with font-display: optional is an Anti-pattern Web Fonts Apr 2018
  44. Import your Disqus Comments to Eleventy 📢 4Eleventy Apr 2018
  45. “The Compromise”—a Modern but Compatible Font Loading Strategy 📢 7Web Fonts Apr 2018
  46. Passing the Lead NebraskaJS Organizer Baton Mar 2018
  47. Google Open Source Award for Eleventy Eleventy Mar 2018
  48. It’s Dangerous to Go Stallone. Take Glyphhanger Web FontsProjectHighlight Mar 2018
  49. “A letter about Google AMP” Feb 2018
  50. Web Fonts are ▢▢▢ Rocket Science Web FontsSpeaking47 min Video Feb 2018
  51. Introducing Eleventy, a new Static Site Generator EleventyProjectHighlight Feb 2018
  52. 🇬🇧 SmashingConf London 2018 Speakingon February 7 Feb 2018
  53. Making a Simple Web Site with the Simplest Static Site Generator, Level 2—Adding Filters Eleventy Jan 2018
  54. Making a Simple Web Site with the Simplest Static Site Generator, Level 1 Eleventy Jan 2018
  55. spider-pig Searches for Nodes that match a CSS Selector Project Jan 2018
  56. Airing Out 2017’s Dirty Laundry Jan 2018
  57. 2017 ×23
  58. 23 Minutes of Work for Better Font Loading 📢 17Web Fonts #8 Nov 2017
  59. 🇺🇸 NebraskaJS Omaha Speakingon November 14 Nov 2017
  60. Managing Font Loading CSS Was Painful—Not Anymore Web FontsProject Nov 2017
  61. A Collection of Web Font Loading Recipes 📢 1Web FontsProjectResearch Oct 2017
  62. FOIT vs. FOUT, a Side by Side Comparison 📢 2Web FontsProject Oct 2017
  63. A Historical Look at FOUT and FOIT 📢 1Web Fonts Sep 2017
  64. Web Standards Podcast #85 Web FontsSpeaking1 hour 26 min Audio Sep 2017
  65. 🇧🇾 CSS-Minsk-JS Speakingon September 10 Sep 2017
  66. The Ten Twitter Commandments Speaking Aug 2017
  67. The Web Font Loading Glossary Web Fonts #17 Aug 2017
  68. I made a style guide for my personal web site and you should too. 📢 3 Aug 2017
  69. NEJS CONF 2017 NEJS CONFon July 21 Jul 2017
  70. Font Aliasing, or How to Rename a Font in CSS 📢 9Research #16Highlight Jun 2017
  71. Laissez-faire Font Smoothing and Anti-aliasing 📢 7Research #18Highlight May 2017
  72. Quick Demo: Animating on an Oval Path 📢 2 May 2017
  73. Wait, WebP is actually worth it. 📢 10Research Apr 2017
  74. What Are You Excited About? Speaking Apr 2017
  75. Selecthor: A Better way to Learn and Demo CSS Selectors 📢 4Project Apr 2017
  76. Randsom: A Random Web Fonts Ransom Note Project Apr 2017
  77. Bernie Tweets Project Mar 2017
  78. CSS-Tricks Video Screencasts #152: Font Loading Speaking57 min Video Jan 2017
  79. Shop Talk Show #247: The Performance Equation Speaking72 min Audio Jan 2017
  80. In Case You Missed It: 2016 Jan 2017
  81. 2016 ×16
  82. No @font-face Syntax will ever be Bulletproof, Nor Should It Be. Web FontsHighlight Dec 2016
  83. Lazy Loading Web Fonts Is Probably Not What You Want 📢 3Web FontsHighlight Nov 2016
  84. Separating Fact from Fiction on the Internet Speaking Sep 2016
  85. I Wanted to Type a Number ResearchHighlight Aug 2016
  86. NEJS CONF 2016 Recap NEJS CONFon August 26 Aug 2016
  87. Beyond Code #4 at NEJS CONF 2015 Speaking3 min Video Aug 2016
  88. A Comprehensive Guide to Font Loading Strategies 📢 74Web Fonts #2Highlight Jul 2016
  89. CSS Position Sticky Speaking10 min Video Jun 2016
  90. Web Fonts for President 2016 📢 10Web Fonts #10 Apr 2016
  91. The Web Fonts: Preloaded 📢 4Web FontsResearch #11Highlight Apr 2016
  92. Trying out a new Font Stack 📢 1 Apr 2016
  93. Web Font Anti-pattern: Data URIs 📢 18Web FontsResearchHighlight Mar 2016
  94. A Versatile 2KB of JS Speaking25 min Video Mar 2016
  95. A Story About Proxy Filters Feb 2016
  96. Critical Web Fonts 📢 2Web FontsResearch #13Highlight Jan 2016
  97. In Case You Missed It: 2015 Jan 2016
  98. 2015 ×19
  99. The Infinity Hamburger Menu Project Dec 2015
  100. Using Custom Fonts Responsibly, an Akamai Animated Short Web FontsSpeaking5 min Video Dec 2015
  101. Frameworks, not Blameworks Nov 2015
  102. 🇪🇸 A Brief History of that Time You Used Web Fonts—SmashingConf Barcelona Web FontsSpeaking48 min Video Oct 2015
  103. 🇺🇸 The Performance and Usability of Web Fonts—Velocity New York City 📢 1Web FontsSpeaking42 min Video Oct 2015
  104. Filament Group is Agency of the Year at Net Awards Sep 2015
  105. A Hypocrite’s Guide to Public Speaking 📢 1Speaking17 min VideoHighlight Sep 2015
  106. Changelog #166, NEJS CONF 2015 NEJS CONFSpeaking69 min Audio Aug 2015
  107. NEJS CONF 2015 Recap NEJS CONFon August 7 Aug 2015
  108. Smashing Book #5 Web Fonts Jul 2015
  109. The Mitt Romney Web Font Problem 📢 3Web FontsResearchHighlight May 2015
  110. 🇺🇸 The Performance and Usability of Font Loading—Velocity Santa Clara 📢 1Web FontsSpeaking39 min Video May 2015
  111. 🇺🇸 Tech Meetup at the White House 📢 1Speaking3 min VideoHighlight Apr 2015
  112. Compatibility Tables Compendium 📢 9 Mar 2015
  113. 🇨🇦 Better @font-face with Font Load Events—SmashingConf Whistler Web FontsSpeaking48 min VideoHighlight Feb 2015
  114. Flash of Faux Text—still more on Font Loading 📢 2Web FontsResearch #19Highlight Jan 2015
  115. Performance and Responsive Web Design (2015) Speaking67 min Video Jan 2015
  116. How we use web fonts responsibly, or, avoiding a @font-face-palm Web FontsResearch Jan 2015
  117. In Case You Missed It: 2014 Jan 2015
  118. 2014 ×13
  119. The Making of fontfamily.io Web FontsSpeaking19 min Video Nov 2014
  120. word-break Podcast #1 Speaking49 min Audio Nov 2014
  121. WOFF2 See the Wizard, a Wonderful JavaScript Feature Test Web FontsProject Oct 2014
  122. A Font Family Reunion 📢 11Web FontsProjectHighlight Sep 2014
  123. Better @font-face with Font Load Events on Dev.Opera Web FontsResearchHighlight Sep 2014
  124. The Perfect GIF 📢 7Speaking12 min Video Sep 2014
  125. W3C Status Banners 📢 2Project Aug 2014
  126. Tablesaw: A Flexible Tool for Responsive Tables ProjectHighlight Aug 2014
  127. A Frugal and Simple Guide to Putting Lights on your Bike 📢 1 Jul 2014
  128. Pastry Box: Impostor Syndrome Jun 2014
  129. 🇺🇸 Bulletproof Icon Fonts—CSSConf Web FontsSpeaking26 min Video May 2014
  130. Politespace, an unobtrusive alternative to input masks Project Apr 2014
  131. Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts Web FontsProjectResearchHighlight Jan 2014
  132. 2013 ×12
  133. In Case You Missed It: 2013 📢 3 Dec 2013
  134. Domain Swap: A Google Chrome Extension Project Dec 2013
  135. The Elusive :target Feature Test 📢 2ResearchHighlight Nov 2013
  136. Impostor Syndrome 📢 8Speaking7 min VideoHighlight Oct 2013
  137. A Nodecopter Informercial (at HOW Conf) Sep 2013
  138. A Sliver of What I Learned at JSConf 2013 Jun 2013
  139. You Should Follow Fewer People on Twitter 📢 3Project Jun 2013
  140. Performance and Responsive Web Design (2013) 📢 5Speaking61 min Video May 2013
  141. zachleat.com is Dead, Long Live zachleat.com 📢 2 May 2013
  142. Tool or Die, a Web Developer’s Workflow 📢 13Speaking59 min VideoHighlight Mar 2013
  143. Side Projects (at Awesome Camp) Mar 2013
  144. A Web Developer Fumbling with Social Media 📢 12 Jan 2013
  145. 2012 ×6
  146. SocialCount, Faster & Lighter Social Networking Widgets ProjectHighlight Nov 2012
  147. Performance in Responsive Web Design (2012) Nov 2012
  148. A Front End Engineer’s Manifesto 📢 12ProjectSpeakingHighlight Sep 2012
  149. CSS3 Job Transition 📢 3 May 2012
  150. Let’s get parseIntimate. Project Feb 2012
  151. Placeholder Title for Article about HTML5 Placeholders 📢 11ResearchHighlight Feb 2012
  152. 2011 ×10
  153. Deferreds and a Better Geolocation API 📢 3 Nov 2011
  154. A Mobile Web Divided 📢 2 Aug 2011
  155. Progressive Enhancement (at jQuery Omaha) Aug 2011
  156. FitText + BigText: A Tale of Two Plugins 📢 6Web Fonts #20Highlight May 2011
  157. Pragmatic Progressive Enhancement 📢 1Highlight May 2011
  158. HTML5 vs. Native Applications, The Presentation 📢 7 Mar 2011
  159. Raging Netflix Queue, a Google Chrome Extension 📢 8Project Feb 2011
  160. The JavaScript Testing Challenge Winner 📢 3 Feb 2011
  161. Et tu, X-UA-Compatible? 📢 3ResearchHighlight Feb 2011
  162. BigText Makes Text Big 📢 73Web FontsProject #6Highlight Jan 2011
  163. An Update to The JavaScript Testing Challenge Jan 2011
  164. 2010 ×12
  165. The JavaScript Testing Challenge 📢 8Speaking5 min Video Nov 2010
  166. Faking Onload for Link Elements 📢 3ResearchHighlight Jul 2010
  167. ALARMd is now on Github 📢 4 Jul 2010
  168. Maiden Voyage of the DOM Sailbloat 📢 1Project Jul 2010
  169. A Race Against Time Pickers 📢 1 Jun 2010
  170. Point, Charset, Match: Character Encoding in JavaScript 📢 1Web FontsResearch Mar 2010
  171. Internet Explorer Array.sort Unreliable 📢 13ResearchHighlight Feb 2010
  172. If the Menu Fitts, We Must Acquit 📢 8 Feb 2010
  173. CSS 3 Text: A Tale of writing-mode Woe 📢 3Web FontsResearch Feb 2010
  174. Trash that “Back to Top” Link 📢 8 Feb 2010
  175. The 24 Clock on ALARMd 📢 3 Jan 2010
  176. DIY Webdings—CSS Sprites using @font-face 📢 13Web FontsResearchHighlight Jan 2010
  177. 2009 ×9
  178. Don’t Give Up on Internet Explorer Yet 📢 3 Dec 2009
  179. Device Independence on the Open Web 📢 3Highlight Aug 2009
  180. Quick Performance Tip: jQuery and addClass 📢 2 Jun 2009
  181. Adobe Reverts Flex Store to Open Web May 2009
  182. Performance Caveat with jQuery Selectors and Live Events 📢 14Research May 2009
  183. Jonathan Sharp at The Ajax Experience Feb 2009
  184. ALARMd Unix Time Format for 1234567890 Day Feb 2009
  185. Registration Forms Suck, Let’s Mitigate Suckiness 📢 4 Jan 2009
  186. Scare Your Visitors with this JavaScript Gravatar Plugin 📢 6Project Jan 2009
  187. 2008 ×20
  188. DOMContentLoaded Inconsistencies (in Browsers and JavaScript Libraries) 📢 1ResearchHighlight Dec 2008
  189. jQuery Bug: IE reports incorrect $.browser.version 📢 3 Oct 2008
  190. Dear IE6: Please Cache my Images. 📢 3Research Oct 2008
  191. Relative URLs including the Domain 📢 2 Oct 2008
  192. ALARMd is a Google Code Project Oct 2008
  193. Fight Registrastination. Register to vote! Project Sep 2008
  194. Writing a Front End Engineer’s Resume (or CV) 📢 6 Sep 2008
  195. Emulating onhashchange without setInterval 📢 5ResearchHighlight Aug 2008
  196. Double Whammy: OpenID and Microformats May 2008
  197. Selecting XML Nodes with JavaScript, or the Peril of getElementsByTagName 📢 8ResearchHighlight May 2008
  198. Javascript Objects are NOT JSON 📢 3 May 2008
  199. Surnamespacing 📢 3 May 2008
  200. Don’t Let the Door Hit You Onunload and Onbeforeunload 📢 10Research #14Highlight Apr 2008
  201. Forgive My Feed Apr 2008
  202. Rethinking JavaScript Grids and DataTables 📢 1 Apr 2008
  203. ALARMd 2 Beta, with Google Calendar Integration 📢 12ProjectHighlight Apr 2008
  204. 20000 Leagues Under the API: YouTube JavaScript Apr 2008
  205. Code Like the Big Boys: Flickr 📢 3 Mar 2008
  206. Tips for Programming JavaScript Functions 📢 1 Mar 2008
  207. Architecture Choices: Callbacks and Events in JavaScript Mar 2008
  208. Yet Another Pretty Date JavaScript 📢 25ProjectHighlight Mar 2008
  209. Minor Annoyances with Firefox Development Mar 2008
  210. Specific Inheritance with TIBCO’s General Interface 📢 3 Mar 2008
  211. PHP Pretty Date 📢 6Project Feb 2008
  212. Online Movie Rental Review – Amazon Unbox 📢 4 Jan 2008
  213. 2007 ×35
  214. Quine using XHTML and JavaScript Dec 2007
  215. Faster YUI DataTable with 5 Lines of Code 📢 1 Dec 2007
  216. Problems with Looping through window.setInterval 📢 2 Dec 2007
  217. enterval, an automatic setInterval chainer. Project Dec 2007
  218. Speed up Including Google Analytics Nov 2007
  219. Obscurity, Security, and Captcha 📢 1 Nov 2007
  220. Forward Compatibility and JavaScript Nov 2007
  221. Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [CSS] 📢 1 Oct 2007
  222. Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [PHP] Oct 2007
  223. Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [JavaScript] 📢 1 Oct 2007
  224. Write More Efficient Javascript in YUI with CSS Selectors Project Sep 2007
  225. Cross Domain XHR with Firefox 2 📢 18 Aug 2007
  226. Namespacing outside of the YAHOO Namespace 📢 8 Aug 2007
  227. Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 29 Seconds or Less! 📢 3 Aug 2007
  228. ALARMd now supports URLs Aug 2007
  229. maLArquee, Bringing Back the Marquee 📢 4Project Aug 2007
  230. Using Phing to automate JavaScript and CSS Minimization 📢 3 Aug 2007
  231. YUI Code Review: YAHOO.namespace 📢 3 Aug 2007
  232. Using DOM Query Libraries in YUI 📢 3 Jul 2007
  233. 8 Things the YUI Library Needs to Win Me Back 📢 7 Jul 2007
  234. What Sound Does a Cow Make? MooTools. 📢 1 Jul 2007
  235. 20/20 Hindsight, a Look Back at ALARMd 📢 2 Jul 2007
  236. JavaScript Frameworks and JSF 📢 6 Jul 2007
  237. DOMDom, easy DOM Element Creation 📢 9Project Jul 2007
  238. Wake up to YouTube on my Internet Alarm Clock 📢 23ProjectHighlight Jun 2007
  239. Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 30 Seconds or Less! 📢 7 Jun 2007
  240. Screen Readers and Listening at the Speed of Sound May 2007
  241. Wash your mouth out with SOAP and the YUI Connection Manager 📢 3 May 2007
  242. YUI DataTable and You: Making the Marriage Work 📢 7 Apr 2007
  243. I-Frame Shims or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 📢 8 Apr 2007
  244. JavaScript Code Coverage Tool for Firebug 📢 18Project Apr 2007
  245. Google Using YUI Grids CSS 📢 9Highlight Apr 2007
  246. Problems with YUI DataTable 📢 28 Apr 2007
  247. YUI Button Lite Mar 2007
  248. Logical XOR in JavaScript 📢 2Project Mar 2007
  249. Conservative Design Example: Hierarchical Options Mar 2007
  250. Fundamental Problem with YUI Button 📢 1 Mar 2007
  251. OMG SOA Mar 2007
  252. Conservative Design Example: Multiple Option List Mar 2007
  253. Conservative Design: Command Line Interface Mar 2007
  254. Namespaces in Ext DomQuery Mar 2007
  255. Beaten to the Spiked Punch Mar 2007
  256. Conservative Design: Option List Feb 2007
  257. Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements 📢 3 Feb 2007
  258. Conservative Design: Hierarchical Select 📢 1 Feb 2007
  259. Screen Printing, Fake Interfaces Part 1 Feb 2007
  260. Checklist for Web Applications Feb 2007