Zach’s ugly mug (his face) Zach Leat­herman

This Web Site is a Tech Talk

Over the weekend I was finishing up some polish on the slides of my most recent conference talk when my daughter walked in to my office. We decided to record a short video of that interaction and put it up on Twitter.

Needless to say, the tweet—uh—went much further than I expected.

If you’re at all curious how we did it, I’ll explain it and more in this talk about building web sites. The talk also delves into Single Page Applications, Multi Page Applications, modern JavaScript Frameworks, and what I believe to be a better future for web development.

Watch on YouTube: This Web Site is a Tech Talk (Zach Leatherman at Smashing Conf Austin 2020)

March 8, 2021: Update: make sure you check out Queue Code, a service to let you live code like I did in this talk.

Slides and Source Code


Teasers

I think I’ve put more work into this @smashingconf talk than any other talk I’ve given in my life 😅😅😅—October 9, 2020

I am really excited and nervous to give this talk but I also want to punch past me for being obsessed with this weird idea—October 12, 2020

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 »