11ty goes fully independent
11ty creator Zach Leatherman is taking the open source site generator fully independent in 2024 and he’s back on the pod to tell us why, how & what we all can do to help.
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Featuring:
Zach Leatherman – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
I Need Your Help to Make 11ty Fully Independent and Sustainable in 2024
An Organizer’s Retrospective on the 11ty Conference
xkcd: Dependency
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Celebrating Eleventy 2.0 🎉
Zach Leatherman returns to the show to discuss his progress over the last year since going full-time on Eleventy, including Eleventy 2.0, the release of WebC, and the state of static site generators.
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Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Going full-time on Eleventy (JS Party #217)
Eleventy on YouTube
The JavaScript Site Generator Review, 2023
Astro
WebC - single file web components
is-land
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Going full-time on Eleventy
Zach Leatherman recently announced he will now be working on Eleventy – his simpler static site generator – while continuing to work at Netlify. What makes Eleventy special? How’d he convince Netlify to let him do this? What does this mean for the project’s future? How many questions in a row can we type into this textarea? Tune in to find out!
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Show Notes:
Eleventy
Zach on JS Party #79
Who Pays for Web Frameworks?
11ty on Open Collective
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Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️
Zach Leatherman joins the party with Divya and Nick to talk about fonts and static site generators! Zach shares his knowledge about font loading, what can go wrong, and how we can avoid issues. Then we discuss Zach’s newest project, Eleventy, a simple static site generator, and the panelists share things they are excited about.
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Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Fonts and font loading
The Mitt Romney Web Font Problem
Google Fonts
Glyphhanger
The Scoville Scale of web font loading opinions
Eleventy
Eleventy - a simpler static site generator
GitHub Actions
Who’s using 11ty?
web.dev
v8.dev
CERN
Support Eleventy
What we’re excited about
Vue
Svelte
Chernobyl
neovim
IndieWeb
Weapons of Math Destruction
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JavaScript in the Wild at NEJS Conf (Interview)
Jerod Santo took off his host hat this show and joined Zach Leatherman, and Nick Nisi, his co-organizers of NEJS Conf to talk about JavaScript in the wild in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Show Notes:
Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) on Twitter
Nick Nisi (@nicknisi) on Twitter
Jerod Santo (@jerodsanto) on Twitter
NEJS Conf
Big Wheel Brigade
Making NEJS Conf Inclusive and Accessible
Hero: John Resig
The Superbytes
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