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Michael Harley 15 posts

Software developer and team lead working remotely from Richmond, VA. Loves solving problems, grilling, tinkering with Home Assistant, metal shows, and his cats.

2026

Rolling my own bubbles.town widget

I built my own bubbles.town widget for 11ty instead of using their JavaScript, calling their API once at build time and baking the vote count straight into the page.

2023

How to add a custom slugify filter to 11ty

During my recent blog migrations, I discovered the new slugify filter handles apostrophes differently. I'd prefer they were dropped. Here are the steps.

2022

Automating some of the publishing steps for my Eleventy blog

Heres how I automated some of the tedious steps of publishing new posts on my Eleventy blog.

My complete blogging workflow

Here is my complete blogging workflow from how I manage ideas all the way to publishing and sharing.

Say hello to obsolete29.com v4!

Eleventy came out with v1.0 so I rebuilt my site to celebrate.

2021

Updated social sharing (open graph protocol) images for my personal site

Using the large social sharing images added nothing to the information being published so I've decided to stop using them.

Reply-to links in site feeds

I really love when people include Reply-to links in their RSS feed. Here are a couple options.

Setting a conditional variable in Javascript

Software developer and team lead working remotely from Richmond, VA. Loves solving problems, grilling, tinkering with Home Assistant, metal shows, and his cats.

Improving my automated open graph image process w/ Eleventy

Software developer and team lead working remotely from Richmond, VA. Loves solving problems, grilling, tinkering with Home Assistant, metal shows, and his cats.

Improving upon my image processing with Eleventy

I recently relaunched my website and I believe I have improved upon my image processing setup using eleventy-img. Here is what I did.

Automated social sharing images with Eleventy and Puppeteer

Software developer and team lead working remotely from Richmond, VA. Loves solving problems, grilling, tinkering with Home Assistant, metal shows, and his cats.

Setup social sharing previews, SEO, and favicons on Eleventy

This is part four of how I used 11ty to setup my personal site. This is how I setup open graph protocol, search and favicons.

2020

RSS, a love letter and walkthrough for my Eleventy site

Software developer and team lead working remotely from Richmond, VA. Loves solving problems, grilling, tinkering with Home Assistant, metal shows, and his cats.

Configuring responsive and optimized images with Eleventy

Software developer and team lead working remotely from Richmond, VA. Loves solving problems, grilling, tinkering with Home Assistant, metal shows, and his cats.

Building my personal site with Eleventy

Software developer and team lead working remotely from Richmond, VA. Loves solving problems, grilling, tinkering with Home Assistant, metal shows, and his cats.

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.