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  2. Nine different countries, 24 conferences, 20 meetups, 11 livestreams, 7 barcamps, 19 podcasts, and one University guest lecture.
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  4. 116 entries

    1. 2026

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    2. State of the Browser (2026) It’s 10PM: Do You Know Where Your JavaScript Is?Conf Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com/ 53 min 12
    3. AMA about Build Awesome, an Open Town Hall at the 11ty Meetup IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11tymeetup.dev/ 44 min
    4. Speaking at: State of the Browser (2026) IndieWeb Avatar for https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com/ 2
    5. How Eleventy Survived: Funding, Growth, and Open Source Reality IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.podcastawesome.com/2092855/episodes/18615318-how-eleventy-survived-funding-growth-and-open-source-reality 29 min

    1. 2025

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    2. How We Built Web Awesome with 11ty (and Why It’s So Fast) IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.podcastawesome.com/2092855/episodes/17268471-how-we-built-web-awesome-with-11ty-and-why-it-s-so-fast 35 min
    3. Blog Awesome from WordPress to Eleventy (at Eleventy Meetup)Meetup Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11tymeetup.dev/ 27 min 5

    1. 2024

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    2. Nerd Show and Tell on Podcast Awesome IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.podcastawesome.com/2092855/episodes/16065652-nerd-show-and-tell-meet-zach-leatherman 30 min
    3. The Best And Worst Parts Of Eleventy (Now In v3)—Web Unleashed 2024Conf Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://fitc.ca/ 6
    4. Speaking at: Web Unleashed (2024) IndieWeb Avatar for https://fitc.ca/presentation/the-best-and-worst-parts-of-eleventy-now-in-v3/ 1
    5. Oddbird’s Winging It Live: Web Components 60 min4
    6. 11ty Goes Fully Independent—JS Party #325 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/325 75 min 10
    7. The Future of 11ty (2024)Conf Talk 31 min3k 10
    8. Glitch Jams Live 🍓🎏 Ep. 16: Eleventy'ing IndieWeb Avatar for https://glitch.com/ 75 min 1
    9. Mechanical Ink: Unpacking the Challenges and Opportunities in Modern Web Development IndieWeb Avatar for https://schalkneethling.substack.com/p/unpacking-the-challenges-and-opportunities 73 min
    10. Panel Discussion: What's next for Jamstack? 60 min5
    11. Lessons learned moving Eleventy from CommonJS to ESMConf Talk 45 min1k 13
    12. Speaking at: TheJam.dev (2024) IndieWeb Avatar for https://cfe.dev/events/the-jam-2024/
    13. Exploring the Bounds of Jamstack on What the Jam 29 min 1

    1. 2023

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    2. Building a multi-language Taylor Swift fan site (10 Minute Version) (Zach's Version) 10 min 7
    3. Live Editing an Eleventy Project in CloudCannon with Bookshop IndieWeb Avatar for https://cloudcannon.com/ 9 min
    4. Static Feedback #11: All about Eleventy 37 min
    5. SmashingConf 2023 (The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components)Conf Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://smashingconf.com/ 24 min
    6. Jamstack ZHUZH: a Roundtable Discussion on the future of the Jamstack Community 69 min 3
    7. Igalia Chats: 11ty, Open Source and Funding IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.igalia.com/chats/zach 64 min
    8. State of Web Components Panel (This Dot Media) IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.thisdotmedia.com/state-of-web-components-june-2023/ 94 min2k6
    9. JSNation 2023 (The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components)Conf Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/the-good-the-bad-and-the-web-components 28 min
    10. JSHeroes 2023 (The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components)Conf Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://jsheroes.io/ 24 min#1212k20
    11. Stanford WebCamp 2023 (The Good, the Bad, and the Web Components)Conf Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://webcamp.stanford.edu/session/the-good-the-bad-and-the-web-components 29 min2k
    12. The Eleventy v2.0 Release, a talk at the Eleventy MeetupMeetup Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/ep-12-configs-and-v2/ 21 min 9
    13. Celebrating Eleventy 2.0 🎉—JS Party #266 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/266
    14. GitHub’s Open Source Friday: WebC, The Web Components Framework 49 min3k 14

    1. 2022

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    2. Shop Talk Show #593: Zach Leatherman on Eleventy, Mastodon, Twitter, and is-land IndieWeb Avatar for https://shoptalkshow.com/543/ 59 min 20
    3. The State of Eleventy (2022) in Two Minutes 2 min6k 27
    4. Everyone has a very important voice—WebJoy Podcast №21 IndieWeb Avatar for https://webjoy.fm/episodes/s1-e21-everyone-has-a-very-important-voice-zach-zachleat 19 min 1
    5. OSS is Out to End the Framework Wars—Jamstack Conf 2022 20
    6. FITC Panel: Front-End Framework Trends with the creators of Qwik, Astro, and Eleventy 57 min4
    7. Kelvin Omereshone’s TKYT: Eleventy and WebC 73 min
    8. Nick Taylor’s livecoding.ca: WebC is neat! 88 min2
    9. Adding Components to Eleventy with WebCMeetup Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/ep-11-webc-with-zach/3k 23
    10. Ryan Carniato: Exploring 11ty with Zach Leatherman 150 min3k 28
    11. PodRocket podcast: Eleventy with Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eleventy-with-zach-leatherman/id1539945251?i=1000564676022 27 min
    12. Eleventy: Build vs. Serverless vs. EdgeMeetup Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/ep-8-state-of-the-possumverse-and-panel-on-transitioning-to-11ty/ 21 min2k 7
    13. Coding Design Systems episode 11: Design Systems with 11ty 53 min3
    14. Going full-time on Eleventy—JS Party #217 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/217 58 min
    15. Full Time Open Source Development for Eleventy, sponsored by Netlify 2 min 3

    1. 2021

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    2. How to add Authentication to your Eleventy Site 7 min2k 7
    3. The State of Eleventy (2021) in Two Minutes 2 min2k 3
    4. Eleventy Serverless, a talk video from EleventyMeetup’s AvatarThe Eleventy MeetupMeetup Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11tymeetup.dev/ 43 min1k
    5. Speaking at: Inaugural EleventyMeetup’s AvatarEleventy Meetup: Hello World (a talk about Eleventy Serverless) IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/hello-world/
    6. Some Antics with BenDMyers’s AvatarBen Myers: A First Look at Eleventy Serverless! 73 min 4
    7. Defer generating 400+ pages using Eleventy Cloud and On-demand Builders 8 min1k 8
    8. How and Why I Removed 3000 Images from the Eleventy Docs Build 4 min1k
    9. Powering Netlify’s Community Events with Structured Content (and a preview of Eleventy Cloud) 23 min 2
    10. Content is Data—Sanity Open House IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.sanity.io/content-is-data-open-house-2021
    11. Image Ready v2—Developer Experience @ EleventyMeetup Talk 22 min 25
    12. ThisDotMedia’s AvatarBuild IT Better: Architecture feat. jlengstorf’s AvatarJason Lengstorf 58 min
    13. This Web Site is a Tech TalkConf Talk 45 min4k 51
    14. Jamstack 101: Getting Started with Eleventy, presented by agilitycms’s AvatarAgility CMS 73 min
    15. Speaking at: JAMstackTORONTO’s AvatarJamstack Toronto IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/JAMstack-Toronto/events/275601729/

    1. 2020

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    2. Speaking at: Smashing Conference Austin (2020) IndieWeb Avatar for https://smashingconf.com/austin-2020/
    3. The State of Eleventy (2020) in Two Minutes 2 min1k5
    4. Cloudflare’s Creative Corner with the Netlify team IndieWeb Avatar for https://cloudflare.tv/event/cloudflare-s-creative-corner-featuring-special-guests-from-the-netlify-team/oZKbA8a4
    5. Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS OmahaMeetup Talk 63 min2k
    6. Speaker Spotlight: a chat with Vitaly Friedman 19 min
    7. Let’s Learn Eleventy! on LWJShow’s AvatarLearn with Jason 92 min#1124k6
    8. Speaking at: Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS Omaha IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/nebraskajs/events/dxndfdybccbkb/

    1. 2019

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    2. Shop Talk Show #390: Eleventy with Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/390/ 62 min
    3. Own Your Content on Social Media Using the IndieWebConf Talk 31 min2k 30
    4. Making a PWA out of the 1996 Space Jam Web SiteTalk IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.spacejam.com/1k 4
    5. A look back at NEJS CONF, 2015–2019Conf Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://nebraskajs.com/ 11
    6. Speaking at: JAMstack Conf SF 2019 IndieWeb Avatar for https://2019.jamstackconf.com/sf/
    7. Smashing TV: The Five Whys of Web Font Loading PerformanceTalk
    8. Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️—JS Party #79 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/79 67 min
    9. Speaking at: Web Engineering Düsseldorf IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/Web-Engineering-Duesseldorf/events/260995020/
    10. The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading OpinionsConf Talk 1k 3
    11. Speaking at: beyond tellerrand—Düsseldorf IndieWeb Avatar for https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/duesseldorf-2019
    12. Speaking at: NebraskaJS Omaha (The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading Opinions) IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/nebraskajs/events/dxndfdyzhbkb/

    1. 2018

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    2. Working Draft Podcast: On Tour @ #perfnow 5/6 IndieWeb Avatar for https://workingdraft.de/on-tour-perfnow-zach-leatherman/ 21 min
    3. The Five Whys of Web Font Loading PerformanceConf Talk 46 min4k 4
    4. Speaking at: performance.now(); the Web Performance Conference IndieWeb Avatar for https://perfnow.nl/
    5. TalkScript Episode #14 34 min
    6. Speaking at: Concatenate Conference
    7. Web Fonts are ▢▢▢ Rocket ScienceConf Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/rocket-science.html 47 min
    8. Speaking at: SmashingConf London (2018) IndieWeb Avatar for https://smashingconf.com/london-2018/

    1. 2017

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    2. Speaking at: NebraskaJS Omaha (Web Fonts are ▢▢▢ Rocket Science) IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/nebraskajs/events/238363544/
    3. Web Standards Podcast #85 86 min
    4. Speaking at: CSS-Minsk-JS (2017)
    5. The Ten Twitter CommandmentsTalk 2k
    6. What Are You Excited About?Meetup Talk 1k
    7. CSS-Tricks Video Screencasts #152: Font Loading IndieWeb Avatar for https://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/152-font-loading-zach-leatherman/ 57 min
    8. Shop Talk Show #247: The Performance Equation IndieWeb Avatar for http://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/247-performance-equation/ 72 min

    1. 2016

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    2. Separating Fact from Fiction on the InternetTalk
    3. Beyond Code #4 at NEJS CONF 2015 3 min
    4. CSS Position StickyMeetup Talk 10 min
    5. A Versatile 2KB of JSMeetup Talk 25 min

    1. 2015

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    2. A Brief History of that Time You Used Web Fonts—SmashingConf BarcelonaConf Talk 48 min
    3. The Performance and Usability of Web Fonts—Velocity New York CityConf Talk 42 min 1
    4. A Hypocrite’s Guide to Public SpeakingTalk 17 min2k 110
    5. Changelog #166, NEJS CONF 2015 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/podcast/166 69 min
    6. The Performance and Usability of Font Loading—Velocity Santa ClaraConf Talk 39 min1k1
    7. Tech Meetup at the White HouseMeetup Talk 3 min4k 14
    8. Better @font-face with Font Load Events—SmashingConf WhistlerConf Talk 48 min
    9. Performance and Responsive Web Design (2015)Meetup Talk 67 min

    1. 2014

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    2. The Making of Font Family ReunionMeetup Talk 19 min
    3. word-break Podcast #1 49 min
    4. The Perfect GIFTalk 12 min1k7
    5. Bulletproof Icon Fonts—CSSConfConf Talk 26 min

    1. 2013

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    2. Impostor SyndromeTalk 7 min3k8
    3. A Nodecopter Informercial (at HOW Conf)Conf Talk
    4. Performance and Responsive Web Design (2013)Meetup Talk 61 min3k5
    5. Tool or Die, a Web Developer’s WorkflowConf Talk 59 min5k 45
    6. Side Projects (at Awesome Camp)Talk

    1. 2012

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    2. Performance in Responsive Web Design (2012)Meetup Talk
    3. A Front End Engineer’s ManifestoConf Talk 9k 1

    1. 2011

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    2. Progressive Enhancement (at jQuery Omaha)Meetup Talk
    3. HTML5 vs. Native Applications, The Presentation 3k7