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Zach Leatherman

Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://zachleat.com/is a builder for the web at Font Awesome and the creator of Build Awesome (née IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.devEleventy/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 89 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of CloudCannon, Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS. Read more about Zach »

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  1. Trying out a Two-state Dark Mode Toggle
  2. I was tired of building 474 separate pages for Open Graph Images #1 719
  3. Use Speedlify2 to Continuously Measure Website Performance #5 12
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  5. Back Build Awesome Pro and make it easier to build for the web! IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/build-awesome-pro/
  6. Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.dev/blog/collaborative-editing/
  7. 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
  8. AMA about Build Awesome, an Open Town Hall at the 11ty Meetup IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11tymeetup.dev/ 44 min
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  2. A Comprehensive Guide to Font Loading Strategies #2204k 182
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  4. BigText Makes Text Big #4167k 376
  5. Use Speedlify2 to Continuously Measure Website Performance #5 12
  6. Google Fonts is Adding font-display 🎉 IndieWeb Avatar for https://fonts.google.com/#647k 57
  7. An Attempted Taxonomy of Web Components #718k 33
  8. A Historical Reference of React Criticism IndieWeb Avatar for https://react.dev/#818k 122
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