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Kyle Reddoch 8 posts

CybersecKyle is the personal site of Kyle Reddoch, a cybersecurity expert and IT professional sharing practical guides, incident lessons, everyday defense tips, and more.

2026

Improving My RSS Feed and Making It More Human Readable

I cleaned up my site's web feed so feed readers get better post content and images, while humans who open the feed in a browser get something that feels like part of the site.

Automating Blog Posts to Mastodon From My Website

I added an opt-in workflow that can publish new blog posts to Mastodon, save the returned Mastodon URL back into the post front matter, and rebuild the site with the discussion thread already connected.

I Built an Eleventy Plugin for Sharing Posts to Mastodon

A new Eleventy plugin that adds a Mastodon share button with an instance picker, saved instance support, and shortcode helpers.

How a Blog Post Gets Built in My Corner of the Web

My personal draft-to-deploy rhythm: Ulysses for thinking, VS Code for shaping, Eleventy for building, and GitHub Pages for shipping.

2025

Cooling Down the Servers by Adding a Little Snow

Cool your servers off with some CSS snow as we wire up the snow-fall web component in a self hosted Eleventy setup, complete with color, count, and reduced motion tweaks.

Embedding Mastodon Posts in Eleventy: My Journey

What finally worked to embed Mastodon posts in Eleventy: a tiny shortcode that lets embed.js set height and supports a clean full-bleed layout.

Introducing Brewventy: Your Coffee-Themed Eleventy Starter Kit

“Discover Brewventy, a customizable coffee-themed Eleventy starter with dark/light modes, SCSS-driven theming, and built-in deployment workflows for effortless site launches.”

From Start to Finish: Moving My Blog to Eleventy + GitHub Pages

A step-by-step guide on migrating my blog from using Weblog by OMGlol to Eleventy, hosted on GitHub Pages.

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.