Blog posts in category “Eleventy”
Blog posts about my website projects with Eleventy
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May 14th, 2025Providing next event as API with Eleventy’s Global Data Files and Netlify Functions
I wanted to provide a programmatic access to the next event in our community’s event calendar and combined Eleventy and Netlify Functions to achieve it.
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May 3rd, 2025Hard to spot auto-format error with Prettier, Netlify redirects and Mastodon webfinger
My custom Mastodon redirect kept breaking semi-randomly. I finally figured out why and added a fix to my website project.
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Apr 23rd, 2025How I write and publish blog posts in April 2025
It’s time for documenting my current stack and process for writing and publishing a blog post.
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Mar 22nd, 2025Track software versions for technical blog posts
Code snippets in blog posts are at a risk of becoming outdated which can cause annoyances for the reader. I’ve been asked about how I approach this multiple times and now it’s time to actually address this situation.
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Mar 8th, 2025List blog posts grouped by year with Eleventy
A short guide on how to display blog posts grouped by year for a blog listing page in Eleventy using Nunjucks templating.
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Nov 6th, 2024How I teach Eleventy from scratch
I love how in Eleventy, you can build a site step-by-step and at each small step, have a functional website. In this post, I describe a workshop structure I’ve used lately to teach a few of my friends how to build a static site with Eleventy.
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Jun 26th, 2024Website self-sustenance checkup
I did inventory on my dependencies for writing, building and publishing on this site. I want to make sure I can survive any dependency disappearing with minimal immediate emergency work.
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May 15th, 2024Recap of 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good
Last week, the first 11ty Conference, also known as the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good, took place and it blew my mind. Here are the best parts, which is pretty much everything.
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May 12th, 2024Two small hockey web projects
Spring is the best time of hockey fans: NHL playoffs and IIHF World Championships fill days and nights with hockey. For me, that means running fun community projects and building software for them.
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Apr 24th, 2024The Future of Jamstack panel discussion
We had a great discussion about the future of Jamstack community with Mike, Benedicte, Sean and Miriam.
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Apr 13th, 2024index.md is a valid Eleventy project
Building website projects from the scratch with Eleventy is a delightful process in my experience because in the beginning, all you need is index.md and you can then customise and add on top of it as much as you like.
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Feb 28th, 2024Search, Webmentions and microformats
I’ve made some updates on my website - let’s talk about them. I added a search functionality with Pagefind, Webmention support both directions and microformats to my blog posts.
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Feb 26th, 2024THE Eleventy Meetup Feb 20th
We had a lovely meetup with the Eleventy community. I talked about building meetup community sites utilizing Global Data Files and Robb talked about how he builds his website with Eleventy, pulling data in from various sources.
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Jan 24th, 2024Community websites with Eleventy
With Eleventy’s data files, I’ve come up with a good setup to build landing pages for communities that organize events.
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Jan 6th, 2024Workaround for Notion’s lack of heading levels
Notion only allows heading levels 1-3 to be used but often I find myself needing for more levels. I wrote a workaround to not let technical restrictions limit my creativity.
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Oct 28th, 2023Showing most popular posts with Netlify Analytics
I built a functionality to my Eleventy blog to fetch most visited blog posts from Netlify’s analytics and show them on my blog
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Aug 28th, 2023Custom cookie consent for video embeds
Occasionally I want to embed Youtube videos or social media posts on my blog but wanted a clean and straight-forward way to deal with cookie consent. So I built my first version for Youtube embeds.
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Aug 22nd, 2023Website rewrite and switching to Notion as CMS
This website served me well for almost 5 years with minor improvements, tweaks and hacks. Now, it was time for a total rewrite and upgrading my stack and tools.
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Jul 26th, 2023Blog comments via Mastodon
After half a year of pondering, I finally wrote a bit of code to add comments to my blog via Mastodon replies.