Zach Leatherman 88 posts
Zach Leatherman is a builder for the web at Font Awesome and the creator/maintainer of Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator.Zach Leatherman is a builder for the web at Font Awesome and the creator/maintainer of Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator.
2026
Back Build Awesome Pro and make it easier to build for the web!
Back Build Awesome Pro and make it easier to build for the web! — Eleventy
Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement
Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement — Eleventy
The Possum Mascot, now with additional Awesome
The Possum Mascot, now with additional Awesome — Eleventy
AMA about Build Awesome, an Open Town Hall with Zach Leatherman
AMA about Build Awesome, an Open Town Hall; A chat with Zach
Eleventy is now Build Awesome
Eleventy is now Build Awesome — Eleventy
How Eleventy Survived: Funding, Growth, and Open Source Reality
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Eleventy, 2025 in Review
Eleventy, 2025 in Review — Eleventy
2025
Eleventy Core Dependency Watch (2025 Edition)
Eleventy Core Dependency Watch (2025 Edition) — Eleventy
Securely Publishing our Packages to npm
Securely Publishing our Packages to npm — Eleventy
How We Use GitHub Issues and How That’s Changing
How We Use GitHub Issues and How That’s Changing — Eleventy
Wrapper Elements around Code Blocks in Markdown
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
How We Built Web Awesome with 11ty (and Why It’s So Fast) on Podcast Awesome
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
A Note from my Late Grandmother about Eleventy
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
One weird trick to reduce Eleventy Image Build Times by 60%
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Never write your own Date Parsing Library
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
How to import() a Javascript string
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Eleventy v3.1.0 is now available — 11% faster and 22% smaller!
Eleventy v3.1.0 is now available — 11% faster and 22% smaller! — Eleventy
Check the speedometer on the brand new Blog Awesome (now with 11ty)
News and information from Font Awesome – the internet’s favorite icon set; mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.
11ty Meetup: Blog Awesome from WordPress to Eleventy
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Extract Colors from an Image for CSS Themes
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Start Your Escape from WordPress Using 11ty
YouTube video
Optimize Your Web Site's Images
YouTube video
Eleventy, 2024 in Review
Eleventy, 2024 in Review — Eleventy
2024
Eleventy (software) is now on Wikipedia
Eleventy (software) is now on Wikipedia — Eleventy
The Best And Worst Parts Of Eleventy (Now In v3)—Web Unleashed 2024
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Eleventy v3.0.0 is now available!
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Eleventy v3.0.0 is now available
Eleventy v3.0.0 is now available! — Eleventy
11ty is joining Font Awesome
11ty is joining Font Awesome — Eleventy
Oddbird’s Winging It Live: Web Components
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Scheduled: Web Unleashed 2024: The Best And Worst Parts Of Eleventy (Now In v3)
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1 now available
Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1 now available — Eleventy
IMPROVED ERROR MESSAGING FOR REQUIRE(ESM) IN NODE.JS
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
THE SMORGASBORD OF WINDOWS TERMINAL… WINDOWS
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
11TY GOES FULLY INDEPENDENT—JS PARTY #325
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
I NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE 11ty FULLY INDEPENDENT AND SUSTAINABLE in 2024
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
THE FUTURE OF 11TY (2024)
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
11ty Conference (2024) Break Slideshow: Personal Sites Montage
YouTube video
AN ORGANIZER'S RETROSPECTIVE ON THE 11ty CONFERENCE
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Elevating Video Transcripts as Searchable Content
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Eight Million NPM Downloads!
Eight Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy
EIGHT MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
LESSONS LEARNED MOVING ELEVENTY FROM COMMONJS TO ESM
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
The Good, the Bad, the Web Components
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
We're Running an 11ty Conference
We’re running an 11ty Conference! — Eleventy
2023
Building a multi-language Taylor Swift Fan Site with CloudCannon and Eleventy (Zach's version)
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
ELEVENTY V3 WITH ESM SUPPORT NOW ON THE CANARY CHANNEL
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Calling All Courageous Canary Testers for Eleventy 3.0
Calling all courageous canary testers for Eleventy v3.0 — Eleventy
Let’s create a microblog with visual editing using Bookshop and Eleventy
Visual editing is table stakes for a modern content management workflow.
pagefind-search web component
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Static Feedback #11: All About Eleventy
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Static Feedback #11: All About Eleventy
Static Feedback #11: All about Eleventy — Eleventy
The tension and future of JAMstack
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
A new technique for image optimization: SVG short circuiting
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Automatically optimize your images with Eleventy Image and CloudCannon
Websites are becoming increasingly visual and we're adding more and more image content to our sites — but these images need to be optimized.
A NEW ELEVENTY MASCOT FROM DAVID NEAL!
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Seven Million npm Downloads
Seven Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy
SEVEN MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Big Announcement: Eleventy and CloudCannon
Eleventy and CloudCannon! — Eleventy
The Eleventy Community Survey Results (2023)
The Eleventy Community Survey Results (2023) — Eleventy
Six Million NPM Downloads!
Six Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy
SIX MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
THE NEXT PHASE OF ELEVENTY: RETURN OF THE SIDE PROJECT
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
How Stable is Eleventy? (YouTube)
YouTube video
3 Methods for scoped styles in web components that work everywhere
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
THE ELEVENTY V2.0 RELEASE, A TALK AT THE ELEVENTY MEETUP
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Rewriting the Eleventy Home Page in WebC
YouTube video
Five Million npm Downloads
Five Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy
FIVE MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
2022
The WebC Episode with a Bonus Server-Rendered Image Comparison Component on Eleventy
YouTube video
FOUR MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Interactive Progressively-enhanced Web Components with WebC
YouTube video
Crash Course in Eleventy's new WebC Plugin
YouTube video
Eleventy: Build vs. Serverless vs. Edge
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Eleventy Build went from 54s to 17s—Memory/Performance Wins
YouTube video
THREE MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
The new Eleventy Vite Plugin
YouTube video
2021
Mix and match template syntax in Eleventy using the render plugin
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Every fire needs a sparkline
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
TWO MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Don't shut down your business! Instead use Eleventy Image
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Debug Mode
Debug Mode — Eleventy
Trigger a Netlify build every day with IFTTT
Quick Tip: Trigger a Netlify Build Every Day — Eleventy
2020
Eleventy and Vue, a match made to power Netlify.com
Learn more about the new Netlify.com site tech stack. We’ve combined Eleventy and Vue, and throughout this article Zach Leatherman explains the details behind the setup.
Eleventy's New Performance Leaderboard
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Let’s Learn Eleventy!
YouTube video
2018
Build your own Blog from Scratch using Eleventy
Filament Group helps companies design and build super-fast responsive sites and web apps that are simple to use and accessible to everyone