3 posts by Richard MacManus
2025
Ghost vs. Substack, Eleventy vs. WordPress: My Experiences
This month I began yet another web side-project: a weekly newsletter called Web Technology News on the Ghost platform. I currently have two other active websites: Cybercultural, my internet history site that I run via Eleventy and Cloudflare (and Buttondown for email delivery); and my personal website, ricmac.org, which has…
Aug 21, 2025
by Richard MacManus (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
2024
CAUTION
The posts below were published before the release of Eleventy v3.0.0 (Oct 1, 2024). Information in these posts may be out of date. The current stable release is 3.12.
Static Sites Do Scale: Eleventy vs. Next.js at 11ty Event
Eleventy is an act of rebellion against the dark forces driving today’s internet, says its creator. And it turns out, Eleventy does scale.
May 13, 2024
by Richard MacManus (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: 11ty Conference 2024
Why I Migrated My Newsletter From Substack to Eleventy and Buttondown
Today I've gone live with a new website and email newsletter platform for Cybercultural, my tech history newsletter that I started on Substack in 2019. What pushed me to migrate off Substack is its stance on hate content, which I personally object to. But over the past several months, I've…
Jan 26, 2024
by Richard MacManus (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?