JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️

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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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    • Featuring:

    • Zach Leatherman – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
    • 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

            • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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