Como eu tinha feito uma instalação novinha em folha do fedora 42, Tive que baixar de volta do codeberg o projeto do meu site que eu tô reconstruindo com o eleventy, descompactei, rodei e tá lá a belezinha
Como eu tinha feito uma instalação novinha em folha do fedora 42, Tive que baixar de volta do codeberg o projeto do meu site que eu tô reconstruindo com o eleventy, descompactei, rodei e tá lá a belezinha
Eleventy (via chokidar) thinks I've deleted my eleventy.config.js whenever I make changes in vim, forcing me to restart the dev server every time I update the config. Annoying!
Using `set backupcopy=yes` fixes this issue, so that command now lives in my config's modeline. https://vimhelp.org/options.txt.html#%27backupcopy%27
I spent most of the day trying to decide which CMS to use with Eleventy. After reading a bunch of articles and documentation, I decided that I wanted to self-host, so I chose WordPress for now. However, to make the CMS play nicely with Eleventy, it seems that a service like statichost is necessary. This is fine in general, but I'd prefer to get rid of it if possible.
do you have art? do you want to put it on a website, that *you* own, for cheap-as-free?
im writing a program for that! you just drag and drop your art into a folder, and run "galleryify", and it generates html for each image, and adds everything to a thumbnail gallery. you can group with tags and style everything however you want, too.
it outputs static html, so you can upload it to neocities or nekoweb or basically any free web host. the tradeoff for being cheap-as-free is that there's no server-side interactions (e.g. no comment section).
i need testers! if this sounds good then please comment and let me know your level of comfort with art and with html.
https://nycki93.github.io/eleventy-image-gallery/
if you just wanna know "the stack", this is made with NodeJS and Eleventy. if that doesn't mean anything to you, dont worry about it.
EDIT: wow, a lot of you said you'd be interested in testing! Okay, I've just put some usage instructions up on this page, please try it out and let me know how it goes!
Off-the-cuff note since this came up recently: how to bundle #JavaScript and #CSS files with content-hashed names using esbuild in #eleventy:
The longer I have to deal with 20 min+ builds for my website (it just has lots of images - served remotely from an object storage - by this point that eleventy-fetch and elventy-img have to go through) the more I am unsatisfied with the setup I have come up with for myself.
In theory, images should be downloaded/resized once. In practice cache invalidation and build pipeline limitations (and me not having the time to solve it properly - but I do have time to wait 20 minutes per deploy? Huh.) mean that instead of waiting around 3 mins I wait way longer.
I love #eleventy, but I do sometimes feel the trade-off of using an ssg over a dynamic blog solution like #ghost…
A quick rant about my move to #PageFind on my #11ty site and the process of setting it up
https://jacen.moe/rants/20251112-moving-search-from-google-to-pagefind/

I'm just enough of a narcissist to believe that people deserve to hear the things I have to say, so discoverability is very important to me. To that end, I've wanted to have some kind of search function on my site to make it easier to find older posts. Around two months ago, I added a Google Programmable Search Engine as a temporary measure, but I always had my eye on PageFind in the long term. Today, I finally took the time to implement the PageFind solution into the site.
@amoroso Moving from WriteFreely to Eleventy increased friction for me. I can no longer publish or edit a blog post from my phone and I miss that.
That said, I still appreciate the markdown input format of Eleventy and using git for branches etc. I also have more confidence that I won't lose posts if something goes wrong.
I think this trade-off between friction and features is ok for me, but it needs to be part of a conscious decision when choosing a blog platform.
The latest issue of the awesome 11ty Bundle newsletter includes my recent tutorial on making a image gallery static site with #11ty.
There's also a nice article from @cyberseckyle showing how to embed Mastodon posts.