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Zach Leatherman
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🔗 https://zachleat.com
🎈 Creator/Maintainer of @11ty.dev
🧰 Professional Hobbyist at @fontawesome.com
🏳️‍⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks
👋🏻 He/him/they
🐘 https://zachleat.com/@zachleat

🐟 out of 🌊 ✅ Front of the Front-end ✅ Static Sites 🚾 Web Components 🏁 Web Perf
first draft of zero configuration typescript (with dependency mapping) in @11ty.dev is working — weeeeeeeeeeee
December 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Look, you’re asking the wrong guy. Makes me think of:
December 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
this is your other option
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
tfw your web site is static
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
happy holidays y’all! 🎄
December 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
We all hate it when we drive our hot-dog shaped cars through an office building window, am I right??
December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This took a lot of tedious work but I’m now npm token free, weee!

The entire @11ty.dev ecosystem is now using Trusted Publishers (docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publ...)
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The 80px vertical page shift from “This issue has been moved to a discussion” clunking in on an already loaded page will be my villain origin story.

Bring back toasts, GitHub! 🥸
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I have elevated to a new plane of open source existence.

(we were at 428 open issues in October)
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
went on a small side quest this morning and added an AI Mode toggle to my blog posts

e.g. www.zachleat.com/web/adventur...
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
the double u-u has a lovely ghostbusters quality to it
October 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Congrats JPMorgan on the opening of your new headquarters!
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
when the paywall CSS is accessible but also inaccessible
October 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
huh — I’ve tested on multiple computers and that isn’t my experience on Edge either
September 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
hmm — not in Vivaldi either, but I tested in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome.

the US site, to be specific
September 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
trying to estimate how much the saas is gonna cost
September 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The affected package has been removed from npm, over 5 hours after it was published. Whew, what a ride.
September 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
radio silence from all of these accounts is kinda wild to see too:
September 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
gotta watch out for those Google Symbols icon font ligatures in Google Meet
September 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
just completed the official @fontawesome.com LEGO logo sets!
August 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I was brave and shipped www.zachleat.com building with Eleventy v4.0.0!
July 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
maybe I’m being sensitive but I’m giving a bit of a side eye to deno.com stating that it’s “Backwards compatible with Node.js”
June 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I went out to try to improve society, somewhat. #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
June 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
When leadership (in a software company or community) shows you that it is not a welcoming space for productive and critical discussions (critique of LLMs in the flavor of today), it’s time to take some advice from @dasharez0ne.bsky.social.

Toxic spaces aren’t worth your time.
June 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM