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11ty.dev

A docs page for Eleventy, a simpler static site generator.

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Migrating to 11ty

It's been a while coming, but I've finally managed to get around to migrating to 11ty and Cloudflare Pages. I go over the ups and downs of the migration proc...

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pages-tutorial

Create and run a website using a static site generator and Codeberg pages!

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Credits

This site was built with Visual Code Studio and Eleventy.

Website History

In this post I will briefly describe my personal website’s history. It started in 1998. At this point, I have already gone through six iterations. I had already completely forgotten two of them.

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11ty and Ghost

Alex talks at length about what it's like using both Ghost and 11ty for two different blogs.

Weird things engineers believe about Web development

I wrote most of this post sometime in 2022 but I think it holds up alright in 2024 so I decided to publish it for posterity. I don’t really like doing posts like this—I’d much rather share some innocuous learnings or tips but it turns out I have opinions too 😓 Sorry! 2024-02-21: I’ve added a few reflections at the end of the post. 2024-04-27: Developpez.com has produced a French translation of this post. Since I quit Mozilla and went back to full-time Web development, I’ve discovered a few surprises. It turns out Web development is actually pretty hard, Web developers are actually very smart, and some of these frameworks and techniques we mocked as browser engineers aren’t so bad. Oops. At the same time, it turns out some Web developers have ideas about browsers and the Web that, as a former browser engineer and standards editor, I’m a bit dubious of. Here are a few of the things that surprised me.

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