In the interest of over-engineering my personal site I've gone out of my way to optimize it for performance. It started out fairly quick as it's static, built using Eleventy and is hosted with Vercel but, beyond the basic setup, I've taken some addit...
What if — and hear me out here — instead of using email or a platform-owned account, we leveraged individual domain names as personal identifiers for the web? Our current state of affairs is essentially this: if you want to use a service or establish...
I've discussed building a now page using Eleventy but I also syndicate a subset of that content out to Mastodon using @11ty/eleventy-activity-feed and Make. The @11ty/eleventy-activity-feed allows you to aggregate various web feeds into a single feed...
I've relaunched, rebuilt and rewritten my personal blog more times than I can count and I've had a trail of posts I've never fully migrated at each turn. This weekend, while relaxing and watching movies I ported them into Eleventy and, in doing so, f...
In an effort to get away from client-side Javascript and embrace Eleventy for what it is (a static site generator), I've dropped my social-utils instance offline and my now-playing track display on my home page that still relied on it. To update my f...
As part of my commitment to writing about things I've written in other frameworks in Eleventy, this is how I re-engineered my /now page in Eleventy.[1] My /now page is a series of discreet sections — the Currently block is populated by data from omg....
In the interest of continuing to repeat myself I'm writing, once again, about adding webmentions to a blog.[1] To quote myself[2]: To kick this off you'll need to log in and establish an account with webmention.io and Bridgy. The former provides you...
I wrote a basic syndication tool in Next.js to automate sharing items from configured RSS feeds to Mastodon. This tool works by leveraging a few basic configurations, the Mastodon API and a (reasonably) lightweight script that creates a JSON cache wh...
With my personal site now sitting at Vercel and written in Next.js I decided to rework my now page by leveraging a variety of social APIs. I kicked things off by looking through various platforms I use regularly and tracking down those that provide e...