Issue 43 - The 11ty conference happened...a roundup, New eleventy-img wow-ness, A POSSE repo, Two new categories, A reading time plugin...And 1 release, 16 posts, and 9 sites to see

May 14, 2024

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Welcome to Issue 43 of the 11ty Bundle. 11ty, aka Eleventy, is a "simpler static site generator" that is designed to be simple, flexible, and highly customizable. It is built on Node.js and allows developers to create websites by transforming templates and data into static HTML files. It supports multiple template languages, giving developers the freedom to choose the languages that best suit the needs of their project.

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I've managed to find an hour here and an hour there, while traveling, so maybe there won't be a gap in my posting. Anyway...we've got a good one this week. Let's get to it!

The 11ty Conference happened...a roundup. On May 9th, the 11ty conference aired live, and it was a real good conference about making web sites real good. If you want to watch it from start to finish, the entire conference is right here on YouTube.

Here's a set of talk-by-talk links in case you don't want to watch them in order. These links are also in the description of the full video. I'm skipping the 20-minute countdown, but it was hilarious as at each 11-second mark past the minute, a random voice would say "eleven" in a unique way.

• Kickoff!
• Future of 11ty by Zach Leatherman
• Hints & Suggestions (First, Do No Harm) by Miriam Suzanne
• 11ty and Large-Project Tooling by Paul Everitt
• Digital Frontiers, IndieWeb Cowboys, and A Place Online To Call Your Own by Henry Desroches
• You're Probably Doing Web Performance Wrong by Sia Karamalegos
• Building a Town That Doesn't Exist by Dan Sinker
• 11ty Sites for People Who Don't Think they are Web Developers by Adrianna Tan
• Don't Fear the Cascade by Mayank
• Managing content management (with no vendor lock-in): Git CMS and static API generation, together at last! by Liam Bigelow and David Large
• Come to the light side: HTML Web Components by Chris Ferdinandi
• Chinese Type Systems by Ivan Zhao
• Light mode versus Dark mode by Sara Joy
• Recap

The conference was exceptionally well done and everything was on time. And the talks were varied and interesting.

New eleventy-img wow-ness. During Zach's talk on the Future of Eleventy, he showed off a new way to use the eleventy-img plugin. Just watch the talk and be prepared to be wow'd.

A POSSE repo. If you've wondered about POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere), in a follow-up to his talk at the 11ty Conference, Henry Desroches has created a posse-with-11ty, "...a very basic implementation of a POSSE-style microblog publishing strategy using IndieWeb principles and some IndieWeb services."

Two new categories. I've created two new categories here. First, with all of the post-conference reflection posts that I've come across, I've given them a home as the 11ty Conference category. Second, while there is already a Drafts category, I noticed that some of them also discussed scheduling. And as I've run across a couple of other posts on scheduling, it felt like it was time to give it its own category. So, Scheduling is now a thing.

A reading time plugin. While some of us have written our own implementation of "reading time" to add that to our posts, this plugin by Max Boll just surfaced and it's a nice, lightweight, configurable approach for those who don't want to write their own. You can find it on GitHub at eleventy-plugin-readingtime. He also wrote a blog post about it.

Until next time...

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