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  1. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇪🇸 🇧🇾 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇷🇴
  2. Nine different countries, 29 conferences, 19 meetups, 11 livestreams, 7 barcamps, 19 podcasts, and one University guest lecture.
  3. Do you want me to speak at your event? Read on→
  4. 2026 ×4 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2026
  5. State of the Browser (2026) It’s 10PM: Do You Know Where Your JavaScript Is?Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com/ 53 min 1
  6. AMA about Build Awesome, an Open Town Hall at the 11ty Meetup IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11tymeetup.dev/ 44 min
  7. Speaking at: State of the Browser (2026) IndieWeb Avatar for https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com/ 2
  8. 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
  9. 2025 ×2 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2025
  10. 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
  11. Blog Awesome from WordPress to Eleventy (at Eleventy Meetup)Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11tymeetup.dev/ 27 min 5
  12. 2024 ×12 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2024
  13. 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
  14. The Best And Worst Parts Of Eleventy (Now In v3)—Web Unleashed 2024Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://fitc.ca/ 6
  15. Speaking at: Web Unleashed (2024) IndieWeb Avatar for https://fitc.ca/presentation/the-best-and-worst-parts-of-eleventy-now-in-v3/ 1
  16. Oddbird’s Winging It Live: Web Components 60 min
  17. 11ty Goes Fully Independent—JS Party #325 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/325 75 min 10
  18. The Future of 11ty (2024)Talk 31 min 10
  19. Glitch Jams Live 🍓🎏 Ep. 16: Eleventy'ing IndieWeb Avatar for https://glitch.com/ 75 min 1
  20. 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
  21. Panel Discussion: What's next for Jamstack? 60 min
  22. Lessons learned moving Eleventy from CommonJS to ESMTalk 45 min1k 13
  23. Speaking at: TheJam.dev (2024) IndieWeb Avatar for https://cfe.dev/events/the-jam-2024/
  24. Exploring the Bounds of Jamstack on What the Jam 29 min 1
  25. 2023 ×13 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2023
  26. Building a multi-language Taylor Swift fan site (10 Minute Version) (Zach's Version) 10 min 7
  27. Live Editing an Eleventy Project in CloudCannon with Bookshop IndieWeb Avatar for https://cloudcannon.com/ 9 min
  28. Static Feedback #11: All about Eleventy IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/static-feedback/ 37 min
  29. SmashingConf 2023 (The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components)Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://smashingconf.com/ 24 min
  30. Jamstack ZHUZH: a Roundtable Discussion on the future of the Jamstack Community 69 min 3
  31. Igalia Chats: 11ty, Open Source and Funding IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.igalia.com/chats/zach 64 min
  32. State of Web Components Panel (This Dot Media) IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.thisdotmedia.com/state-of-web-components-june-2023/ 94 min
  33. JSNation 2023 (The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components)Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/the-good-the-bad-and-the-web-components 28 min
  34. JSHeroes 2023 (The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components)Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://jsheroes.io/ 24 min
  35. Stanford WebCamp 2023 (The Good, the Bad, and the Web Components)Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://webcamp.stanford.edu/session/the-good-the-bad-and-the-web-components 29 min
  36. The Eleventy v2.0 Release, a talk at the Eleventy MeetupTalk IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/ep-12-configs-and-v2/ 21 min 9
  37. Celebrating Eleventy 2.0 🎉—JS Party #266 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/266
  38. GitHub’s Open Source Friday: WebC, The Web Components Framework 49 min 1
  39. 2022 ×14 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2022
  40. Shop Talk Show #593: Zach Leatherman on Eleventy, Mastodon, Twitter, and is-land IndieWeb Avatar for https://shoptalkshow.com/543/ 59 min 20
  41. The State of Eleventy (2022) in Two Minutes 2 min 2
  42. 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
  43. OSS is Out to End the Framework Wars—Jamstack Conf 2022 35 min 20
  44. FITC Panel: Front-End Framework Trends with the creators of Qwik, Astro, and Eleventy 57 min
  45. Kelvin Omereshone’s TKYT: Eleventy and WebC 73 min
  46. Nick Taylor’s livecoding.ca: WebC is neat! 88 min
  47. Adding Components to Eleventy with WebC IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/ep-11-webc-with-zach/3k 23
  48. Ryan Carniato: Exploring 11ty with Zach Leatherman 150 min 2
  49. PodRocket podcast: Eleventy with Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eleventy-with-zach-leatherman/id1539945251?i=1000564676022 27 min
  50. Eleventy: Build vs. Serverless vs. EdgeTalk IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/ep-8-state-of-the-possumverse-and-panel-on-transitioning-to-11ty/ 21 min2k 7
  51. Coding Design Systems episode 11: Design Systems with 11ty 53 min
  52. Going full-time on Eleventy—JS Party #217 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/217 58 min
  53. Full Time Open Source Development for Eleventy, sponsored by Netlify IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/eleventy-oss/ 2 min 3
  54. 2021 ×14 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2021
  55. How to add Authentication to your Eleventy Site 7 min2k 7
  56. The State of Eleventy (2021) in Two Minutes 2 min 3
  57. Eleventy Serverless, a talk video from EleventyMeetup’s AvatarThe Eleventy MeetupTalk IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11tymeetup.dev/ 43 min
  58. Speaking at: Inaugural EleventyMeetup’s AvatarEleventy Meetup: Hello World (a talk about Eleventy Serverless) IndieWeb Avatar for https://11tymeetup.dev/events/hello-world/
  59. Some Antics with BenDMyers’s AvatarBen Myers: A First Look at Eleventy Serverless! 73 min 4
  60. Defer generating 400+ pages using Eleventy Cloud and On-demand Builders 8 min 8
  61. How and Why I Removed 3000 Images from the Eleventy Docs Build 4 min
  62. Powering Netlify’s Community Events with Structured Content (and a preview of Eleventy Cloud) 23 min 2
  63. Content is Data—Sanity Open House IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.sanity.io/content-is-data-open-house-2021
  64. Image Ready v2—Developer Experience @ EleventyTalk 22 min 25
  65. ThisDotMedia’s AvatarBuild IT Better: Architecture feat. jlengstorf’s AvatarJason Lengstorf IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRRkvI-w5Ik 58 min
  66. This Web Site is a Tech TalkTalk 45 min4k 51
  67. Jamstack 101: Getting Started with Eleventy, presented by agilitycms’s AvatarAgility CMS 73 min
  68. Speaking at: JAMstackTORONTO’s AvatarJamstack Toronto IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/JAMstack-Toronto/events/275601729/
  69. 2020 ×7 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2020
  70. Speaking at: Smashing Conference Austin (2020) IndieWeb Avatar for https://smashingconf.com/austin-2020/
  71. The State of Eleventy (2020) in Two Minutes 2 min
  72. 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
  73. Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS OmahaTalk 63 min
  74. Speaker Spotlight: a chat with Vitaly Friedman 19 min
  75. Let’s Learn Eleventy! on LWJShow’s AvatarLearn with Jason 92 min
  76. Speaking at: Eleventy Crash Course with Nick and Zach—NebraskaJS Omaha IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/nebraskajs/events/dxndfdybccbkb/
  77. 2019 ×11 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2019
  78. Shop Talk Show #390: Eleventy with Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/390/ 62 min
  79. Own Your Content on Social Media Using the IndieWebTalk 31 min2k 30
  80. Making a PWA out of the 1996 Space Jam Web SiteTalk IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.spacejam.com/1k 4
  81. A look back at NEJS CONF, 2015–2019Talk IndieWeb Avatar for https://nebraskajs.com/ 11
  82. Speaking at: JAMstack Conf SF 2019 IndieWeb Avatar for https://2019.jamstackconf.com/sf/
  83. Smashing TV: The Five Whys of Web Font Loading PerformanceTalk
  84. Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️—JS Party #79 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/jsparty/79 67 min
  85. Speaking at: Web Engineering Düsseldorf IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/Web-Engineering-Duesseldorf/events/260995020/
  86. The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading OpinionsTalk 1k 3
  87. Speaking at: beyond tellerrand—Düsseldorf IndieWeb Avatar for https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/duesseldorf-2019
  88. Speaking at: NebraskaJS Omaha (The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading Opinions) IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/nebraskajs/events/dxndfdyzhbkb/
  89. 2018 ×7 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2018
  90. Working Draft Podcast: On Tour @ #perfnow 5/6 IndieWeb Avatar for https://workingdraft.de/on-tour-perfnow-zach-leatherman/ 21 min
  91. The Five Whys of Web Font Loading PerformanceTalk 46 min4k 4
  92. Speaking at: performance.now(); the Web Performance Conference IndieWeb Avatar for https://perfnow.nl/
  93. TalkScript Episode #14 34 min
  94. Speaking at: Concatenate Conference
  95. Web Fonts are ▢▢▢ Rocket ScienceTalk IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/rocket-science.html 47 min
  96. Speaking at: SmashingConf London (2018) IndieWeb Avatar for https://smashingconf.com/london-2018/
  97. 2017 ×7 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2017
  98. Speaking at: NebraskaJS Omaha (Web Fonts are ▢▢▢ Rocket Science) IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.meetup.com/nebraskajs/events/238363544/
  99. Web Standards Podcast #85 86 min
  100. Speaking at: CSS-Minsk-JS (2017)
  101. The Ten Twitter CommandmentsTalk 2k
  102. What Are You Excited About?Talk 1k
  103. CSS-Tricks Video Screencasts #152: Font Loading IndieWeb Avatar for https://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/152-font-loading-zach-leatherman/ 57 min
  104. Shop Talk Show #247: The Performance Equation IndieWeb Avatar for http://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/247-performance-equation/ 72 min
  105. 2016 ×4 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2016
  106. Separating Fact from Fiction on the InternetTalk
  107. Beyond Code #4 at NEJS CONF 2015 3 min
  108. CSS Position StickyTalk 10 min
  109. A Versatile 2KB of JSTalk 25 min
  110. 2015 ×8 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2015
  111. A Brief History of that Time You Used Web Fonts—SmashingConf BarcelonaTalk 48 min
  112. The Performance and Usability of Web Fonts—Velocity New York CityTalk 42 min 1
  113. A Hypocrite’s Guide to Public SpeakingTalk 17 min2k 110
  114. Changelog #166, NEJS CONF 2015 IndieWeb Avatar for https://changelog.com/podcast/166 69 min
  115. The Performance and Usability of Font Loading—Velocity Santa ClaraTalk 39 min1k1
  116. Tech Meetup at the White HouseTalk 3 min4k 14
  117. Better @font-face with Font Load Events—SmashingConf WhistlerTalk 48 min
  118. Performance and Responsive Web Design (2015)Talk 67 min
  119. 2014 ×4 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2014
  120. The Making of Font Family ReunionTalk 19 min
  121. word-break Podcast #1 49 min
  122. The Perfect GIFTalk 12 min1k7
  123. Bulletproof Icon Fonts—CSSConfTalk 26 min
  124. 2013 ×5 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2013
  125. Impostor SyndromeTalk 7 min3k8
  126. A Nodecopter Informercial (at HOW Conf)Talk
  127. Performance and Responsive Web Design (2013)Talk 61 min3k5
  128. Tool or Die, a Web Developer’s WorkflowTalk 59 min5k 45
  129. Side Projects (at Awesome Camp)Talk
  130. 2012 ×2 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2012
  131. Performance in Responsive Web Design (2012)Talk
  132. A Front End Engineer’s Manifesto 9k
  133. 2011 ×2 Sparkline representing frequency of posts written by month in 2011
  134. Progressive Enhancement (at jQuery Omaha)Talk
  135. HTML5 vs. Native Applications, The Presentation 3k7