Rob O'Leary 13 posts

Sometimes, you want to use today's date in a template. One example is a copyright notice that includes the current year. Not all templating languages provide a simple way to get the current date.

I switched the hosting of my personal website from Netlify to CloudFlare Pages yesterday. Here is why.

It'd be cool to be able to sprinkle in some charts to your website easily. And without a lick of client-side JavaScript.

Version three of Eleventy has some exciting new features. It is now in beta pre-release. Is it time to upgrade?

It would be cool to be able to drop a CSV file into a project and use it in a page. My motivation was to show bookshelves from my library database

I want to create an archive of all my writing. One source is the author RSS feeds of blogs I wrote for. How about I turn it into an eleventy collection?

I wanted to make an archive of my writing, merging content I wrote for other websites with my exising 'posts' collection. Here is how I did it.

A common organisation pattern for a blog is to group posts by year. I will show you how to do this efficiently and succinctly in JavaScript.

It is easy to mix up the dev and production versions of a website in the browser. Let's make them look unique by using different favicons.

We will populate a page with data from GitHub. We will use the eleventy-fetch plugin to do this with minimal code and refresh the data every 2 days.

In VS Code, you don't get autocompletion in your eleventy config. You don't get info about functions when you hover over them. Here is how you add it.

A production flag enables you to run activites in production only e.g. minifying assets. There isn't a built-in flag in eleventy. How can we add one?

Eleventy 2.0 was released at the beginning of February. It has some major new features. Is it worthwhile to upgrade? Is it painful to upgrade?