This is a curated list of articles I've read and have shared online as I believe they are worth sharing. I aim to update this list on a weekly basis. You can keep up to date with all the links I share by revisiting this page, or alternately, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for links.
Time to Ditch Analytics? Tracking Scripts and Web Sustainability
This article on privacy-focussed web design by Paul Jardine and Becky Thorn of sustainably-minded web design agency Root raises some great points about the link…
Lightweight search in Eleventy
I've been using Pagefind for my site search for a while now and would readily recommend it, but I wanted to throw together something a bit lighter weight and…
We Need to Talk About Your Eleventy Post Dates
Since I really got back into following RSS feeds in the past couple of years I've noticed a problem with Eleventy sites[1] and post…
Welcome to the IndieWeb
Imagine you post and make new friends on an online network for more than a decade – and suddenly, your account gets suspended for no apparent reason. And there…
The 'IndieWeb' feels like coming home
The 'IndieWeb' feels like coming home tech personal Eleventy IndieWeb featured Due to the convenience of not needing to code or maintain anything…
How I Eleventy
I first starting using Eleventy to build this site back in 2020 using version 0.10.0 and through a combination of the official documentation and other people's…
You Want border-color: transparent, Not border: none
If you find yourself removing a border from an element that has a border and are tempted to use border: 0 , border: none, or outline: none, I’d urge you to stop…
You don't have to be a “content creator” to have a website.
This is clearly the result of living in a capitalist society. In recent years, people have felt the pressure to monetise their hobbies, so there’s a constant…
Fetching Package Dependents from GitHub
A conversation in the Eleventy Discord led me to remember about the dependents page of a GitHub repository. That is, a list of…
11ty Linkrolls
Gotta get yourself connected... One of the things I've always loved about blogs were the linkrolls... that candy trail to more and more interesting things…