JS Party Episode #217: Going full-time on Eleventy

March 10, 2022 Tagged: Eleventy Speaking

Originally posted at: https://changelog.com/jsparty/217

I was on the JS Party podcast!

Zach Leatherman recently announced he will now be working on Eleventy – his simpler static site generator – while continuing to work at Netlify. What makes Eleventy special? How’d he convince Netlify to let him do this? What does this mean for the project’s future? How many questions in a row can we type into this textarea? Tune in to find out!

Listen at https://changelog.com/jsparty/217

Zach is a builder for the web at CloudCannon. He created Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 69 talks in nine different countries at events like Jamstack Conf, Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS. Read more about Zach »