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Brennan Kenneth Brown 9 posts

Author: BRENNAN KENNETH BROWN (9 posts)

Journal entries, essays, poetry, and musings on craft, technology, and the human experience. A Queer Métis writer exploring the intersections of Indigenous identity, digital culture, and creativity.

Journal entries, essays, poetry, and musings on craft, technology, and the human experience. A Queer Métis writer exploring the intersections of Indigenous identity, digital culture, and creativity.

2026

Creating an Alphabetical Tag Page feat. Nunjucks Pitfalls

I transformed a messy tag list into an organized alphabetical sections, and there were a surprising amount of gotchas I encountered along the way.

From 65 to 83: Attempts at Performance Optimization

A humble look into the performance optimizations boosting my Lighthouse score from 65 to 83, including critical CSS, layout shift fixes, and image optimization while maintaining the site's design and user experience.

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Extending the Post Graph Plugin: Adding Clickable Links and Tooltips

A technical walkthrough of how I extended the eleventy-plugin-post-graph to add clickable links and hover tooltips showing article titles.

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Building an IndieAuth Comment System for Your Static Site

A journey through authentication, CORS issues, and the joy of owning your comments! Learn how to build a comment system for your static site using IndieAuth and Netlify Functions, storing the comments in your git repository.

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auld lang syne: The Commonplace (micro)Log

A simple gratitude journal online, with media tracking and Beeminder integration. Yes, yet another 11ty project technical write-up, but I promise you'll learn something.

Deploying An Eleventy Site to NeoCities with GitLab CI/CD

A guide to automatically deploying your Eleventy static site to NeoCities using GitLab CI/CD, including authentication, error handling, and optimizations.

2025

Building brennan.day Part One: Design, Rainbows, and Accessibility

A dive into how this site is built, why it exists, and the philosophy behind owning your corner of the web.

Fixing Tags, Categories, and RSS in Our Eleventy Blog

A quick write-up covering three issues—/tags 404s, empty /categories, and a 404 /feed.xml—and how we resolved them with Eleventy collections and a small filter.

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Building the IndieWeb Blog Template — A Technical Postmortem

A deep-dive into making a production-ready Eleventy blog template with robust E2E tests, accessibility, and clean UI patterns.

Some content below may have been published before the release of Eleventy v3.0.0 (October 1, 2024). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12
Some content below may have been published before the release of Eleventy v2.0.0 (Feb 8, 2023). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12.
Some content below may have been published before the release of Eleventy v1.0.0 (Jan 8, 2022). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12.
All of the content below was published before the release of Eleventy v1.0.0 (Jan 8, 2022). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12.