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
5 minutes to read
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...
Recent releases
Utility to perform build-time image transformations. - Release v5.0.0-beta.4 · 11ty/eleventy-img
May 10, 2024
Posts from around the web since the last Bundle issue
Oppossum Symposium
Explore the highlights of a virtual symposium for 11ty, where community, knowledge, and passion for web technologies collided. From heartfelt kickoff remarks to inspiring speaker insights, join in the celebration of creativity and collaboration in the digital realm.
May 14, 2024
by Brian Baldock (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: 11ty Conference 2024
Create a Blog with Eleventy and Storyblok
This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a blog site using Eleventy and Storyblok.
May 13, 2024
by Estela Franco (4 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingCMSConfigurationHow to...Pagination
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 (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: 11ty Conference 2024
AN ORGANIZER'S RETROSPECTIVE ON THE 11ty CONFERENCE
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
May 13, 2024
by Zach Leatherman (43 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: 11ty Conference 2024From the Source
My impressions on The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good
I've seen, dare I say attended, the completely virtual and very first 11ty conference, and I like to share my impressions.
May 13, 2024
by Tobias Fedder (5 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: 11ty Conference 2024
Eleventy Reading Time Plugin
Maximilian Boll - Frontend Web-Developer in Mainz/Germany - makkusu.dev
May 13, 2024
Scheduling Posts with a Static Site
May 12, 2024
by Alex Hyett (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: DeploymentDraftsHow to...Scheduling
Controlling whitespace in 11ty with Nunjucks
Eleventy (11ty) Tutorial
May 11, 2024
by Al Power (8 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: DebuggingHow to...LayoutsNunjucks/Macros
Weekly Roundup #3 - Possum Edition
This week I annoyed everyone at the 11ty conference.
May 11, 2024
by Ryan Trimble (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: 11ty Conference 2024
Building a Town that Doesn't Exist
May 10, 2024
by Dan Sinker (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: 11ty Conference 2024
11ty Conference Thoughts
My reactions and opinions on the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good
May 10, 2024
by Alex Ward (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: 11ty Conference 2024
Rebuilding my website with Eleventy
May 9, 2024
by Blake Watson (1 post) · Website
Categories: BloggingMigrating to EleventySearchWhy Eleventy?
A custom collection to sort events with Eleventy
I made a custom collection with a filter to sort events by their custom date data.
May 9, 2024
by Sami Määttä (5 posts) · Website
Categories: CollectionsDatesFiltersFront MatterNunjucks/Macros
Why I'm leaving Astro for 11ty
No description provided.
May 8, 2024
by Jakob Schwanenberg (1 post) · Website
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Supporting a full-text RSS feed
Up until now, I've only included a short description for posts in my RSS feed, but I've changed tactics so fellow RSS perverts can choose to read my stuff in their reader of choice.
May 8, 2024
by Dustin Whisman (5 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CollectionsHow to...RSS
Eleventy Image problem with Netlify's build
I used wrong slashes in my source code, so Netlify's build step failed while using Eleventy Image.
May 4, 2024
Built with Eleventy
Here are the new sites to see. If you want to see more sites, check out the Eleventy Leaderboards.
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Jak2k's personal website & blog
Starter site for people wanting to use 11ty with Deno and Htmx
Personal Website of Edward Sivyour, Web Developer
Community for frontend developers in Turku, Finland
A friendly neighbourhood Python community in Turku
Cantautor.es is a curated collection of Spanish singer-songwriters, dedicated to supporting their...
Maximilian Boll - Frontend Web-Developer in Mainz/Germany - makkusu.dev
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