Bob Monsour 26 posts

A walk through the build-time plugin that gives every blog post here its own social-share image.

I'm using Cloudflare's Wrangler utility to deploy my Eleventy sites.

Useful resources to help you add visible RSS links, favicons, and web page descriptions.

The saga continues...now we cache-bust those CSS and JS references.

So this is how I am now not minifying CSS and JS bundles in 11ty.

I saved a ton on site build time by not minifying CSS & JS...YMMV.

Today I learned how to fetch a raw JSON file from GitHub at build time in Eleventy. Here's how I did it.

I presented at the 11ty Meetup on how I built my Books page. Here's the video and a link to a PDF of the slides.

I've been able to fully automate the process of creating, at initial post time, a unique and permanent ID for each RSS feed entry.

Rather than have my RSS entry ID be missing, I wanted to validate its presence at build time.

In an effort to create more robust and truly unique and permanent IDs for my RSS feed entries, I built a thing to help.

I was inspired to create permanently unique entry IDs for my RSS feed after reading a post by Evan Sheehan.

I went live with my Books page a short while ago. Here's how I built it.

I've been typing way too much. There are simpler ways to use markdown for images and tables of contents. Here's how I'm doing it.

I use the Pagefind package to add search to my personal site. It was returning way too many result for simple words. I made a small tweak to fix that.

I just converted all the images on my site to use the Eleventy Transform capability in v3.0.0 and wow did it slash my local build times.

I upgraded to 11ty v3 and proceeded to debug.

I decided to take on some overdue refactoring of the 11tybundle.dev site. Here's what I did.

I've reduced the build time for the 11ty Bundle site from 30 seconds to 10 seconds. Here's how.

I had told myself that I wouldn't do this...but, seeing them on other people's sites changed my mind.

I've been wanting to add search functionality to this site for a while. Pagefind made it simple.

Here's how the Firehose page of the 11tybundle.dev site is built.

Here I use a javascript template to generate json data files for selected categories of the 11tybundle.dev site.

Just generating a json file from Google Sheets was not good enough. I had to use the API.

Evolution is a continuous phenomenon.

Handling CSS in Eleventy has been an evolutionary experience.