Zach’s ugly mug (his face) Zach Leat­herman

Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement

April 22, 2026

We’re ramping up again to launch the Build Awesome (11ty) Kickstarter Final_FINAL_v2 on April 28, 2026 and in this post I make the case for a new web site builder can layer itself on top of your existing projects as a progressive enhancement. Infrastructure as progressive enhancement!

Launching .

Tags: Eleventy

Zach Leatherman is a builder for the web at Font Awesome and the creator of Build Awesome (née Eleventy/11ty), an award-winning open source website generator. He measures website performance with speedlify and at one point became too fixated on web fonts. He has given 86 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, State of the Browser, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Learn more about Zach »