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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Categories: MarkdownMigrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?

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