29 posts by Cory Dransfeldt
Enhancing pagination with a page selector
I've made a change to my site's pagination wherein I've enhanced the page count displayed at the bottom of my home and links pages to display the page count in a select element. The select displays a list of all the pages and navigates to the selected page.
Cory Dransfeldt · Apr 5, 2024
Categories: How to...Pagination
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 customizable.
Cory Dransfeldt · Mar 18, 2024
Using an Eleventy event to optimize component JavaScrip
I've added a small event to optimize web component JavaScript when my site builds.
Cory Dransfeldt · Mar 10, 2024
Categories: Asset PipelinesHow to...Performance
Surfacing most used tags in Eleventy
I made some lightweight design changes to my site, keeping things simple but moving the date up above post headers, surfacing tags below and restoring `Read more` links.
Cory Dransfeldt · Mar 9, 2024
Categories: CollectionsFiltersHow to...
Weaving music data in and out of my personal website
I started integrating music data into my personal website when I added Last.fm artist and album displays to my now page. Initially, I tried sourcing artist images from a few different services, knowing that Last.fm had updated their API to stop serving them. After a fair bit of searching I found that most services that supplied artist images covered only a small fraction of my library and often supplied the wrong image when there were multiple artists sharing the same name.
Cory Dransfeldt · Feb 22, 2024
Categories: How to...Now PageRemote Data
Building a bespoke now-playing web component
I've long had a now playing element on the home page of my site that displays either what I've checked into on Trakt, the Lakers' record and who they're playing when a game is on or the last song I've listened to. After leveraging some new web components on my site, I decided to refactor the code powering this into a web component specific to my needs.
Cory Dransfeldt · Feb 21, 2024
Categories: Remote DataHow to...Now Page
Automatic Mastodon post embeds
I use Nicolas Hoizey's GitHub action to syndicate my web activity to Mastodon. Recently, I removed the display of webmentions from my posts after seeing Chris and Robb discuss some privacy concerns around them. Upon seeing David Darnes' mastodon-post web component, I've gone ahead and added it, conditionally, to the end of each of my posts.
Cory Dransfeldt · Feb 20, 2024
Categories: DeploymentSocial MediaWebmentions
Using B2 as a JSON data store
My links page is powered by the Readwise Reader API but because there are, quite reasonably, rate limits in place, I've gone ahead and reduced the page count I fetch on each build and cached older link data from past builds in a B2 bucket.
Cory Dransfeldt · Feb 19, 2024
Categories: Data CascadeGlobal DataHow to...Remote Data
Setting up image transforms in Eleventy
I'm a software developer in Camarillo, California. I enjoy hanging out with my beautiful family and 4 rescue dogs, technology, automation, music, writing, reading and tv and movies.
Cory Dransfeldt · Feb 14, 2024
Check if images are available before optimizing in Eleventy
How to check if a remote image is available before attempting to optimize it using @11ty/eleventy-img.
Cory Dransfeldt · Feb 5, 2024
Categories: How to...ImagesWebmentions
Link blogging using Readwise Reader
How I use Readwise Reader to post and share links.
Cory Dransfeldt · Jan 10, 2024
Categories: BloggingHow to...Remote Data
Programmatically importing your Last.fm listening data to ListenBrainz
I love Last.fm, but in the interest of redundancy, Ive started programmatically importing my listening data from Last.fm into ListenBrainz.
Cory Dransfeldt · Dec 5, 2023
Categories: Data CascadeGlobal DataHow to...Remote Data
Hacking together a Tweekly.fm replacement
I mused the other day about wanting a replacement for Tweekly.fm which shut down due to Twitter's API changes and restrictions. In my case, the aim would be to make this compatible with Mastodon since that's where I've found myself spending the most time recently.
Cory Dransfeldt · Nov 15, 2023
Categories: How to...Remote Data
Semi-automated hashtags for syndicated posts
I went out on a limb recently and decided to build a custom collection in Eleventy that aggregates my post tags and link tags (sourced from Matter). These tags then get appended to shared post or link titles when they're syndicated from my site.
Cory Dransfeldt · Sep 10, 2023
Categories: CollectionsHow to...
Now page: grouping episodes of the same tv show
I made a minor update to how I'm normalizing TV data for display on my now page.
Cory Dransfeldt · Sep 6, 2023
Categories: Remote DataHow to...Now Page
Drying up now page templates and normalizing data in Eleventy
My now page consists of a number of similar sections — some bespoke text, a number of media grids and lists. The text is repeated once, the lists are easily templated out in Liquid.js and the media grids are all quite similar.
Cory Dransfeldt · Sep 3, 2023
Categories: How to...
Displaying now playing data with matching emoji using Netlify edge functions and Eleventy
My site is built using 11ty and is rebuilt once an hour. These frequent rebuilds accomplish a few things, notably updating webmention data and keeping my now page current.
Cory Dransfeldt · Aug 25, 2023
Categories: How to...Edge FunctionsNow Page
Building a popular posts widget in Eleventy using Plausible analytics
I took some time last week to build out a popular posts widget after seeing Zach's implementation using Google Analytics.
Cory Dransfeldt · Jul 12, 2023
Categories: Remote DataHow to...
Displaying listening data from Apple Music using MusicKit.js
Up until now my now page has sourced music data from Last.fm (and may well again). But, in the interest in experimenting a bit, I've tried my hand at rewriting that part of the page to leverage data from Apple Music, using MusicKit.js instead.
Cory Dransfeldt · Jun 21, 2023
Categories: Remote DataHow to...
From ICS to JSON: surfacing anticipated albums
I use MusicHarbor by Marcos Tanaka to track upcoming albums from my favorite artists (typically by syncing my last.fm data with the app.) When I see something new that I want to add to my collection I throw it on a calendar creatively titled Albums.
Cory Dransfeldt · Jun 8, 2023
Categories: Remote DataHow to...
Optimizing for performance with Eleventy
In the interest of over-engineering my personal site I've gone out of my way to optimize it for performance.
Cory Dransfeldt · Jun 7, 2023
Categories: PerformanceHow to...
Now page update: favorite articles from Matter
I dropped in a quick update to my now page to display the 5 most recent articles from my favorites feed in Matter.
Cory Dransfeldt · May 5, 2023
Categories: How to...
Another Eleventy content syndication path
After posting and discussing my post from yesterday with Nicolas Hoizey I decided to explore his suggested path and explore using a GitHub action to handle posts to Mastodon, rather than Make.
Cory Dransfeldt · Mar 28, 2023
Categories: Social Media
Lazy select-based pagination in Eleventy
I've relaunched, rebuilt and rewritten my personal blog more times than I can count, and I've had a trail of posts I've never fully migrated at each turn. This weekend, while relaxing and watching movies I ported them into Eleventy and, in doing so, found that the pagination implementation I was using didn't scale well with the number of pages I added.
Cory Dransfeldt · Mar 27, 2023
Categories: Pagination
Automate and syndicate content from Eleventy to Mastodon
I've discussed building a now page using Eleventy, but I also syndicate a subset of that content out to Mastodon using @11ty/eleventy-activity-feed and Make.
Cory Dransfeldt · Mar 27, 2023
Categories: Social Media
.env files in Eleventy
The Eleventy docs recommend the dotenv package for working with .env files, but I've found dotenv-flow to be a bit more useful inasmuch as support for .env* file patterns make development more convenient.
Cory Dransfeldt · Mar 24, 2023
Categories: How to...
Scheduled Eleventy builds on Vercel with cron-triggered GitHub actions
In an effort to get away from client-side Javascript and embrace Eleventy for what it is (a static site generator), I've dropped my social-utils instance offline and my now-playing track display on my home page that still relied on it.
Cory Dransfeldt · Mar 19, 2023
Categories: Deployment
Building my /now page using Eleventy
As part of my commitment to writing about things I've written in other frameworks in Eleventy, this is how I re-engineered my /now page in Eleventy.
Cory Dransfeldt · Mar 18, 2023
Categories: Remote DataNow Page
Webmentions in Eleventy
In the interest of continuing to repeat myself I'm writing, once again, about adding webmentions to a blog.
Cory Dransfeldt · Mar 17, 2023
Categories: Webmentions