7 posts by Matt Hobbs
2025
Asset fingerprinting and the preload response header in 11ty
I’ll be building on my earlier post about CSS asset fingerprinting, this time adding the preload response header into the mix. Together, these techniques make sure your browser grabs my blog’s CSS right away, keeping things fast and seamless.
Sep 2, 2025
by Matt Hobbs (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Asset PipelinesConfigurationDeploymentHow to...Performance
Configuring your Content-Security-Policy on your development environment in 11ty
In this post, I investigate how you can use a mixture of dynamic and static Brotli compression with the Cloudflare Pro plan, for optimal web performance.
Feb 4, 2025
by Matt Hobbs (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: ConfigurationHow to...
Let's create a plaintext RSS feed with 11ty
In this post I tackle something from my post-MVW (Minimum Viable Website) functionality to do list, by adding a plaintext RSS Feed. I'll take you through my reasons for adding it, the implementation, and the code I used to create it.
Jan 29, 2025
by Matt Hobbs (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: AccessibilityBloggingConfigurationFiltersHow to...RSS
The Speed Trifecta: 11ty, Brotli 11, and CSS Fingerprinting
In this post I bring two previous blog posts together to create the perfect CSS setup for my little blog.
Jan 23, 2025
by Matt Hobbs (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CSS/SassDeploymentHow to...Performance
Using an 11ty Shortcode to craft a custom CSS pipeline
In this blog post, I'll show you how I've written an 11ty Shortcode to manipulate my CSS file, thus allowing for optimal long-life cache-control response headers. Any feedback on this build process would be greatly appreciated.
Jan 12, 2025
by Matt Hobbs (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CSS/SassConfigurationHow to...Shortcodes
Cranking Brotli up to 11 with Cloudflare Pro and 11ty
In this post I investigate how you can use a mixture of dynamic and static Brotli compression with the Cloudflare Pro plan, for optimal web performance.
Jan 5, 2025
by Matt Hobbs (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: ConfigurationDeploymentHow to...Performance
2024
Migrating to 11ty
It's been a while coming, but I've finally managed to get around to migrating to 11ty and Cloudflare Pages. I go over the ups and downs of the migration process in this blog post.
Dec 22, 2024
by Matt Hobbs (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: MarkdownMigrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?