Waving a thankful goodbye to: static-websites and more.
A loosely organized rant on moving away from static websites to a WordPress based blog. After all, publishing easily is the essence of keeping a blog.
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Ligatures are not a good fit for the web.
I talk about ligatures in typography and why I had to disable them on my site.
Making external links safe — JAMStack style
Update on moving from JavaScript to markdown processing for safe external links, and my experience publishing a modified package on npm.
Eleventy: how to exclude draft collection items from build programmatically.
With its 0.11.0 release, Eleventy offers a powerful feature. Let’s see how to exclude draft collection items from build output in Eleventy programmatically, using eleventyComputed.
Adventures of syntax highlighting in Eleventy; and just how many new tags did HTML5 introduce?!
Recently adding support for line-highlighting in code blocks, I discovered some new HTML5 tags, and got a revision on specificity in CSS. Here’s my experience.
Extend 11ty: Implement Jekyll’s post_url tag as a shortcode.
A quick guide showing how to write a post_url shortcode for 11ty, similar to Jekyll’s out-of-the-box post_url tag.