about.md

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You’re Reading About Me	layouts/pagealign.liquid	widths 400 800 auto	src alt ./img/bio-2017.jpg Just a picture of my face.	src alt class loading fetchpriority ./img/avatar-2017-big.png Photo of Zach Leatherman’s Bearded Face about-primary-avatar eager high	src alt class ./img/avatar-2017-big.png Photo of Zach Leatherman’s Bearded Face about-secondary-avatar	src alt ./img/avatar.png A very bearded picture of my face.	src alt ./img/avatar-old.png An avatar with zachleat vertical text aside.	src alt ./web/img/web367.png The very first logo for this blog: Web 3.0 6 Bladed Razors and 7 Minute Abs

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• This web site is maintained by Zach Leatherman (he, him, they).
• View his full résumé.

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Bio

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Plaintext

Zach is a builder for the web at Font Awesome and the creator/maintainer of Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given {{ collections.all | getSpeakingCount: "type" }} talks in {{ collections.all | getSpeakingUniqueCount: "country" | numberString }} 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.

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Zach is a builder for the web at <a href="https://fontawesome.com/">Font Awesome</a> and the creator/maintainer of <a href="https://www.11ty.dev">Eleventy (11ty)</a>, an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely <a href="https://www.zachleat.com/web/fonts/"><em>too fixated</em> on web fonts</a>. He has given <a href="https://www.zachleat.com/web/speaking/">{{ collections.all | getSpeakingCount: "type" }} talks in {{ collections.all | getSpeakingUniqueCount: "country" | numberString }} different countries</a> at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and <a href="https://www.zachleat.com/web/whitehouse/">The White House</a>. Formerly part of <a href="https://cloudcannon.com/">CloudCannon</a>, Netlify, <a href="https://www.filamentgroup.com/">Filament Group</a>, <a href="http://nejsconf.com/">NEJS CONF</a>, and <a href="http://nebraskajs.com">NebraskaJS</a>.

Markdown

Zach is a builder for the web at [Font Awesome](https://fontawesome.com/) and the creator/maintainer of [Eleventy (11ty)](https://www.11ty.dev), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely [_too fixated_ on web fonts](https://www.zachleat.com/web/fonts/). He has given [{{ collections.all | getSpeakingCount: "type" }} talks in {{ collections.all | getSpeakingUniqueCount: "country" | numberString }} different countries](https://www.zachleat.com/web/speaking/) at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and [The White House](https://www.zachleat.com/web/whitehouse/). Formerly part of Netlify, [Filament Group](https://www.filamentgroup.com/), [NEJS CONF](http://nejsconf.com/), and [NebraskaJS](http://nebraskajs.com).

Site History

Year	Type	Using	Learn more…
2007	Software	WordPress
2009	Host	nearlyfreespeech.net
2013	Software	Jekyll	zachleat.com is Dead, Long Live zachleat.com
2018	Software	Eleventy	GitHub commit (too busy to blog this one, apparently!)
2022	Host	Netlify	Migrating My 16+ Year Old Web Site to Netlify in a Few Short Days

Photos

{% image bioImageAttrs, largeImageOptions %} Picture taken by Andrey Davydchyk at CSS Minsk JS. Download JPEG version. {% image avatarBioImageAttrsSecondary %} Modified from above for avatar use.

Deprecated but saved for Posterity

{% image deprecatedBioImageAttrs %} Picture taken by Marc Thiele at SmashingConf Whistler. Download the original version. {% image veryDeprecatedBioImageAttrs %} Deprecated. {% image web367ImageAttrs %} This web site was started in 2007 and was originally titled Web 3.0, 6 Bladed Razors, and 7 Minute Abs.