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Jens Oliver Meiert 4 posts

I’m Jens Oliver Meiert, and I’m a web developer, manager, and author. I invest in the craft of frontend development, write tech and non-tech books, and love trying things out. Follow my work on meiert.com.

2026

Eleventy: How to Work Around the “git Last Modified” Performance Bottleneck

On speeding up Eleventy sites when commit dates are too useful to drop.

2025

Eleventy: How to Set Up Effective HTML Minification (in 24 Seconds)

Install, add import and config, done.

Eleventy: A GitHub Workflow to Check if an Automated Dependency Update Would Break Your Site

A little safety measure to prevent updates to package.json, package-lock.json, and .nvmrc (or similar) from causing a hiccup.

How I Run Eleventy (It’s Complicated?)

Aliases, debug mode, non-versioned builds as part of a centralized, versioned site exports repo—and the thinking behind it all.

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.