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Going all in with 'native' markdown

I've been typing way too much. There are simpler ways to use markdown for images and tables of contents. Here's how I'm doing it.

Dec 3, 2024

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...ImagesMarkdown

Eleventy Transform speeds local development...a lot!

I just converted all the images on my site to use the Eleventy Transform capability in v3.0.0 and wow did it slash my local build times.

Nov 24, 2024

Categories: Images

Integrating Jupyter Notebook Cells in Eleventy Posts

Blog about programming, scientific machine learning and the related techniques and methods.

Nov 13, 2024

Categories: How to...ImagesPluginsShortcodes

Here's how this is all put together

I've been fiddling with this site for the better part of a year now and now that it's fairly stable, I'm putting together what amounts to a public README (or a note to self). This post is that document.

Nov 8, 2024

Categories: CMSCollectionsData CascadeGlobal DataImagesSearch

Open Graph Metadata and Images in Eleventy Made Easy

Blog posts are meant to be shared. When sharing links, you'll often see a preview on social media and instant messengers. But how does it work and how can you do it with Eleventy?

Oct 26, 2024

Categories: CSS/SassFront MatterGlobal DataHow to...ImagesPlugins

Dynamic social share images using Cloudinary

Automatically generate unique Open Graph images for each page of your website

Oct 24, 2024

Categories: ImagesShortcodesSocial Media

Responsive, Self-hosted Images for Your Eleventy Blog

While you can certainly host your image files with the Git repo your Eleventy site is checked into, or add them manually after building it, neither option is ideal if you want responsive images in multiple formats to save precious bandwidth.

Oct 22, 2024

Categories: CSS/SassConfigurationImages

Prairie Rose Arena - Project Notes

Sam Feldstein's digital notebook. Sam is a frontend developer from Bondurant, IA.

Oct 10, 2024

Categories: CMSDeploymentHow to...ImagesPerformanceWhy Eleventy?

Eleventy Images Just Got Better

Eleventy 3.0 adds a new API to optimize images anywhere on your site, without shortcodes.

Sep 3, 2024

Categories: ConfigurationImagesMarkdownPlugins

Eleventy Lessons Learned

How I added a few features and quashed a few bugs.

Aug 6, 2024

Categories: BloggingImagesRemote DataSocial Media

Adding a Photo Stream to an Eleventy Site

Fetching all my public photos from Flickr & putting them on my page

Jun 30, 2024

Categories: Global DataHow to...Image GalleriesImagesPaginationRemote Data

Upgrading to Eleventy v3

I took some time this week to upgrade my site to the newest version of Eleventy. Here's what I learned.

Jun 23, 2024

Categories: CSS/SassImagesUpgrading

Responsive Images in HTML: w and x

w is more correct than x except in one scenario, which is going to be fixed, but the CSS must match.

Jun 11, 2024

Categories: How to...Images

Get image pixel colours in Eleventy/Node

How to get colour information from images at build time when using Eleventy (or Node more generally).

Jun 7, 2024

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...ImagesPlugins

Updating to Eleventy v3

I took some time this week to upgrade my site to the newest version of Eleventy. Here's what I learned.

Jun 1, 2024

Categories: CollectionsHow to...ImagesPluginsUpgrading

JavaScript code to convert Obsidian image links to Nunjucks short codes.

May 29, 2024

Categories: How to...ImagesShortcodes

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

Categories: DebuggingImagesPlugins

Handling images with B2, Netlify's image CDN, Hazel and Mountain Duck

I've spent a while hosting and fetching images from bunny.net when my 11ty builds. I had multiple pull zones configured and wanted to leverage bunny.net's transforms, but the pricing of $15/month per zone wasn't feasible.

May 1, 2024

Categories: How to...Images

Upgrading to Eleventy 1.0.1

If it ain’t broke, clearly you gotta fix it.

May 1, 2024

Categories: ImagesMarkdownShortcodesUpgrading

Generating Open Graph preview images for 11ty

Generated Open Graph images, without driving a browser. Here is how I made mine.

Mar 19, 2024

Categories: How to...ImagesSocial Media

Automatic image pre-processing in Eleventy, Part 2

A post about the new automatic template image scaling support in Eleventy Image 4.0.0.

Mar 13, 2024

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Images

I have a Problem with Build Times

Chris McLeod is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. Sometimes he writes about it.

Mar 13, 2024

Categories: ImagesPerformance

Adding inline SVGs to Eleventy.js

JavaScript software development tips, strategies for salary negotiation, and other helpful advice for navigating software as a career.

Mar 3, 2024

Categories: How to...ImagesConfiguration

Eleventy - Differentiate between dev and production builds with unique favicons

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.

Feb 15, 2024

Categories: ConfigurationData CascadeDeploymentImages

Setting up image transforms in Eleventy

Eleventy added a transform option to process images in Eleventy v3.0.0-alpha.5 and Image v4.0.1 so, naturally, I had to set it up on my site. If you don't want to read this post, you can check out the full diff for the changes.

Feb 14, 2024

Categories: How to...ImagesPlugins

Eleventy 🤝 Immich

A quick image gallery using Eleventy and backed by Immich

Feb 12, 2024

Categories: CollectionsHow to...ImagesPlugins

Check if images are available before optimizing in Eleventy

How to check if a remote image is available before attempting to optimize it using @11ty/eleventy-img.

Feb 5, 2024

Categories: How to...ImagesWebmentions

Super fast responsive image loading in Eleventy

Automatically optimise and serve images by type and size in Eleventy.

Jan 17, 2024

Categories: How to...ImagesPerformancePlugins

How I used JPEGs as templates in Eleventy to build a photo gallery

Jan 5, 2024

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...ImagesLayoutsImage Galleries

Automatic pre-processing of post images in Eleventy

A brief description of how I set up automatic image scaling in Eleventy.

Dec 29, 2023

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...ImagesPlugins

Generating and Caching Open Graph Images with Eleventy

How I'm caching my open graph images with eleventy-plugin-og-image instead of generating them on every build

Dec 24, 2023

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...ImagesLayoutsSocial Media

Generating Open Graph Images in Eleventy

Autogenerating image previews with Eleventy filter functions and node-canvas

Dec 17, 2023

Categories: FiltersHow to...ImagesSocial Media

VSCode Pasting 11ty Images

Creating content locally like a hosted editor

Nov 21, 2023

Categories: How to...ImagesMarkdownPlugins

Automatically optimize your images with Eleventy Image and CloudCannon

Websites are becoming increasingly visual and we're adding more and more image content to our sites — but these images need to be optimized.

Nov 14, 2023

Categories: ImagesPerformancePlugins

Building a photography website

The setup for sharing my photo gallery.

Oct 25, 2023

Categories: How to...ImagesNavigationImage Galleries

Adding Social Preview Images To Our 11ty Blog

Twitter X recently removed headlines and descriptions from link previews, in the name of “esthetics.” Inspired by Steph Ango, while we try not to run our business on the whims of a social media platform, this change did push us into making a change we’ve been meaning to for awhile: adding social preview images for our blog posts. For example, this is now what you’ll see when you share this post:

Oct 17, 2023

Categories: How to...ImagesSocial Media

Making a lighthouse-fast website with a static site generator like 11ty

Creating an SSG flow to generate a highly optimized static website.

Oct 7, 2023

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...ImagesCSS/SassSocial Media

Headless kiosk application (with Kirby CMS)

Use Kirby and 11ty to generate a headless kiosk application hat works offline.

Oct 1, 2023

Categories: CMSHow to...Images

Eleventy Category Images

Describes a solution I implemented in this site to add Category-specific header images to posts. I modified my eleventy-generate-category-pages module to generate additional properties for the header images and some shortcodes to add the image and attribution to the site's pages.

Aug 4, 2023

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Favicon Generation In Eleventy

writings of a coder + sysadmin

Jul 14, 2023

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Images

Markdown Image Optimization In Eleventy

writings of a coder + sysadmin

Jun 24, 2023

Categories: How to...ImagesMarkdown

Image Optimization In Eleventy

writings of a coder + sysadmin

Jun 23, 2023

Categories: How to...ImagesShortcodes

Adding game cover art to my /now page

How I'm using Eleventy-Fetch and the Steam API to fetch recently played games, the games cover art and store page URL to display on my /now page.

Jun 19, 2023

Categories: ImagesRemote DataHow to...Now Page

11ty image shortcode best practice

Quick reminder to myself about how to use the 11ty shortcode for images

Jun 6, 2023

Categories: ImagesHow to...MarkdownShortcodes

Farewell Netlify Large Media, Welcome eleventy-img

Not too complex once I had finished making my mistakes.

Feb 19, 2023

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Take your 11ty build from 1 second to 2 minutes by generating OG images

I tried to generate OG images during build and it ended up taking a long time

Feb 16, 2023

Categories: Social MediaImages

CAUTION

The posts below were published before the release of Eleventy v2.0.0 (Feb 8, 2023). Information in these posts may be out of date. The current stable release is 2.0.1. Eleventy v3.0 is currently under development and available for testing.

Trying out CSS Grid’s new Masonry Layout, with a PhotoSwipe lightbox

Jan 22, 2023

Categories: ImagesImage Galleries

Hello 2023

Maybe I'm writing again.

Jan 7, 2023

Categories: How to...Images

Integrating Cloudinary into Eleventy

A look at integrating Cloudinary image processing with Eleventy

Oct 20, 2022

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Manage your SVG files with Eleventy's render plugin

Using renderFile to keep things tidy.

Oct 2, 2022

Categories: PluginsImages

Processing images linked from frontmatter with eleventy-img to use in meta tags

Engineering Management, SQL, and a dash of front-end from NYC.

Aug 31, 2022

Categories: Front MatterImagesHow to...

Reading Comic Books in the Jamstack

Adding support for digital comic books to your Jamstack site

Jul 1, 2022

Categories: Global DataHow to...Images

Optimizing Images with the 11ty Image Plugin

While imagery can enrich your content, it can also slow down your site if it's not used responsibly. Learn how to use the official 11ty image plugin to create optimized and responsive images.

Jun 10, 2022

Categories: ImagesPlugins

Using the Eleventy Image plugin without a central image folder

Eleventy’s official image pre-processing plugin assumes you have a single folder with all your images in it. I needed something different, and this is how I did it.

May 29, 2022

Categories: PluginsImagesHow to...

Responsive Images in Markdown with Eleventy Image

I love markdown's simplicity and convenience, but sometimes you need a little more than the default image tag. In this post, I walk through how responsive images (with the picture tag) are handled on this blog in a way that doesn't compromise the authoring experience.

Apr 16, 2022

Categories: MarkdownImagesHow to...

Generating Apple Touch Icons with Eleventy

Creating the various sizes of Apple Touch Icons is one of the more tedious tasks in web development, but we can use JavaScript templates in Eleventy to automatically generate Apple Touch Icons.

Mar 30, 2022

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Easily Create Gravatar Images With Eleventy

If you're moving your Wordpress site to Eleventy, you will want to convert your Gravatar images too. Find out how easy it is using an Eleventy shortcode.

Jan 30, 2022

Categories: ImagesHow to...

My complete blogging workflow

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

Jan 29, 2022

Categories: BloggingHow to...ImagesFront Matter

Using a Google Photos Album in your Eleventy Site with Pipedream

Integrating a Google Photos Album in your Eleventy site with Pipedream

Jan 28, 2022

Categories: ImagesHow to...Remote DataImage Galleries

Fetching remote images with Eleventy

Following up on last month’s article about doing this in Hugo, we explain how to get there in a JavaScript-based SSG.

Jan 25, 2022

Categories: ImagesRemote Data

CAUTION

The posts below were published before the release of Eleventy v1.0.0 (Jan 9, 2022). Information in these posts may be out of date. The current stable release is 2.0.1. Eleventy v3.0 is currently under development and available for testing.

Automatically Generated Social Media Images with HTML, CSS, Eleventy & Puppeteer

Prettier previews, built with many moving parts.

Aug 16, 2021

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Setting a conditional variable in Javascript

Power Platform Developer and all around cool guy

Jul 19, 2021

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Improving my automated open graph image process w/ Eleventy

Power Platform Developer and all around cool guy

Jul 14, 2021

Categories: ImagesSocial MediaHow to...

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.

Jul 13, 2021

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Automatically generate open graph images in Eleventy

Bernard Nijenhuis • Front-end Developer • Katwijk, The Netherlands • Father of 3 kids • Husband to 1 wife • Owner of 2 cats

May 10, 2021

Categories: FiltersHow to...ImagesSocial Media

Eleventy 1.0

In the changelog, I’m documenting modifications to this site that might be of interest, but are not necessarily my own ideas or work. This time it’s about the update to Eleventy 1.0 and some things that changed while updating.

Apr 21, 2021

Categories: ImagesSocial MediaHow to...

Using Eleventy’s official image plugin

The what, why, and how of Eleventy Image.

Apr 17, 2021

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Using the Image plugin with Eleventy to build a simple gallery

Apr 7, 2021

Categories: ImagesHow to...PluginsConfigurationImage Galleries

Using the Eleventy image plugin to generate images

In the changelog I'm documenting modifications to this site that might be of interest, but are not necessarily my own ideas or work.

Mar 21, 2021

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Don't shut down your business! Instead use Eleventy Image

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Jan 25, 2021

Categories: Images

Let's Learn Eleventy (11ty) - Images

In the fourth part of the Let't Learn Eleventy series, we'll learn how use images with eleventy-img plugin

Jan 23, 2021

Categories: ImagesHow to...

An async function walks into a loop.

A solution for async functionality in template loops, using `eleventy-image` as an example, some basics about JavaScript loops, and debugging advice. All in what should be a short note.

Jan 15, 2021

Categories: Images

Automated social sharing images with Eleventy and Puppeteer

Power Platform Developer and all around cool guy

Jan 9, 2021

Categories: How to...Images

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.

Jan 3, 2021

Categories: Social MediaImagesHow to...

Maximally optimizing image loading for the web

In this post I'll outline 8 image loading optimization techniques to minimize both the bandwidth used for loading images on the web and the...

Dec 28, 2020

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Configuring responsive and optimized images with Eleventy

Power Platform Developer and all around cool guy

Dec 21, 2020

Categories: ImagesHow to...Plugins

Optimize Images in Eleventy Using Cloudinary

Learn the fundamentals behind responsive images and how to set them up in Eleventy using Cloudinary and Eleventy shortcodes

Dec 11, 2020

Categories: Images

Generating Social Sharing Images In Eleventy

Standing on the shoulders of giants makes it possible to generate social sharing images with very little code.

Dec 10, 2020

Categories: Social MediaImagesHow to...

Responsive Images with Eleventy & Sharp

High school student and open source developer.

Oct 23, 2020

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Eleventy and Responsive Images

I have created a remark plugin called @fec/remark-images that can be used with Eleventy to automatically generate responsive images.

Oct 12, 2020

Categories: Images

Automated Open Graph images with 11ty and Cloudinary

I wanted to find a way to dynamically generate a unique Opengraph images for each blog post automatically using post data, Cloudinary API & Eleventy

Sep 22, 2020

Categories: Social MediaImagesHow to...

Tips for rolling your own lazy loading

You may have heard (or even issued the call) that “we can just use lazy loading!” when looking for a way to slim down a particularly heavy web page.

Jul 15, 2019

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Multilingual sites with Eleventy

Eleventy might not have multilingual and localisation capabilities out of the box, but you can build a pretty good setup using global data files, collections and Nunjucks as a templating language.

Apr 27, 2019

Categories: ImagesHow to...

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