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Improving My RSS Feed and Making It More Human Readable
I cleaned up my site's web feed so feed readers get better post content and images, while humans who open the feed in a browser get something that feels like part of the site.
Kyle Reddoch (8)
Friday Fave: Build Awesome aka 11ty
On a favorite static site generator and general all-around great web tool
Ste Grainer (1)
Dependency Spring Cleaning
In the spirit of seasonal home organizing, here are several dependency updates I’ve made to this site since my last refactor follow-up (most…
Tyler Sticka (5)
Cleaning House: Refactoring My Eleventy Config Into Modules
How I decomposed an 866-line .eleventy.js monolith into four focused modules, fixed some lurking bugs, and eliminated dead CSS and dead dependencies along the way.
The static web renaissance: why SSGs are the future
Are you tired of being shackled to your overkill WordPress setup for a basic blog? Fed up of keeping up with security patches and security woes? No fear! Statically generated sites may be just what you need...
Jessie Heald (16)
Migrating from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages
Moving a static blog from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages, and the Plausible Analytics proxy worker I built along the way.
George Mandis (1)
Making a Personal Reading List
I started reading a few books and wanted a way to keep track of those I've read reading and want to read
Clayton Errington (20)
Optimizing My Eleventy Build: An AI Use Note
Styles in Eleventy (Again)
A technical walkthrough on how I heavily optimized (and some would argue over-engineered) the CSS loading path on this Eleventy website.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
I Made My Eleventy Build 5× Faster with Five Changes
A walkthrough of how I audited my 11ty build benchmarks and cut cold-start time from 14 seconds down to 2.6 seconds by caching two custom filters and swapping out a bare network fetch.
Preserving DOM Changes Across Live Reloads
A technical walkthrough about a workaround to preserving client-side DOM changes across live reloads.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
Deconstructing these auto-generated OG images
A walk through the build-time plugin that gives every blog post here its own social-share image.
Bob Monsour (26)
Automating Blog Posts to Mastodon From My Website
I added an opt-in workflow that can publish new blog posts to Mastodon, save the returned Mastodon URL back into the post front matter, and rebuild the site with the discussion thread already connected.
Kyle Reddoch (8)
Blog Search with Eleventy
A technical walkthrough into the rework of my Eleventy website search, with a strong focus on semantic markup and accessibility.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
Optimizing Images with Eleventy on Netlify
A short glance at the few steps I’ve taken to optimize images on this website, without compromising on build time.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
Using Spec Driven Development with AWS Kiro to add the last updated date on Eleventy blog
A step by step guide to add updated at to exsting Eleventy blog using spec-driven development with AWS Kiro
Geshan Manandhar (1)
Feature Toggles with Eleventy
A short technical walkthrough on setting up feature toggles in Eleventy.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
Changing how I deploy my Eleventy sites
Back Build Awesome Pro and make it easier to build for the web!
Back Build Awesome Pro and make it easier to build for the web! — Eleventy
Zach Leatherman (88)
Adding custom rendering to HTML elements in 11ty/Build Awesome
Ever wanted to change how HTML renders in 11ty? Perhaps inject a span or two into a link? Well have I got the post for you...
Jessie Heald (16)
How this site works now
I moved this site over to Eleventy, so I want to provide an update to the many posts I’ve written on the subject in the past. This posts assumes you’ve followed the basic Getting Started guide on the Eleventy website to install the dependencies required.
Cassie (1)
Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement
Speeding Up Large 11ty Builds on Netlify
If your Eleventy site is starting to feel heavy on Netlify, a few small changes can make a noticeable difference.
Ryan Gittings (5)
From HTML to Eleventy
I have reworked this website for the 3rd time, this time using 11ty as the static site generator.
thetooth (1)
The Limits of AI and Where Humans Shine
I Built an Eleventy Plugin for Sharing Posts to Mastodon
A new Eleventy plugin that adds a Mastodon share button with an instance picker, saved instance support, and shortcode helpers.
Kyle Reddoch (8)
Adding Bluesky Activity to an Eleventy Blog
How I added Bluesky likes, reshares, and responses to my blog posts in Eleventy using the Bluesky API.
Steven Woodson (7)
How I nerd-sniped myself into importing Nike Running Club data via the Strava API
Taking legacy TCX data from Nike and importing it to Strava
11ty Type Validation Schema
The Possum Mascot, now with additional Awesome
Heading Anchors with Eleventy
A technical walkthrough about replacing runtime JavaScript to create heading anchors.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
Cloudflare Pages vs Workers in 2026: Migration Guide
Cloudflare is folding Pages into Workers. Pages isn't getting killed tomorrow, but all the new stuff lands on Workers only. I migrated all my Pages projects eaâ¦
Rick Cogley (1)
Charting New Territory
Announcing Uncharted, an Eleventy plugin for generating charts from CSVs
Sean Lunsford (1)
Simple Pure CSS/HTML Timeline (with Extra Eleventy Integration)
I wanted a simple historical timeline for a companion website for an academic presentation.
Micah Torcellini (2)
Building brennan.day Part Two: IndieWeb, New Features, and Three Months of Iterations
What have I added to my site since I started in December? Quality-of-life improvements, new pages, interesting features, and of course, easter eggs! When you add a little each day, it really adds up.
AMA about Build Awesome, an Open Town Hall with Zach Leatherman
Recent adventures in parsing HTML and GitHub Actions
Angélique Weger is a coder, designer, teacher, learner and overall enthusiast. This is her blog.
Angelique Weger (2)
Markdown content split to sections in Eleventy and Nunjucks
I got nerdsniped in Mastodon to share a solution to an Eleventy content splitting problem.
Juha-Matti Santala (23)
Building my Blog with 11ty
While discussing this on Mastodon (a great place to follow other tech people), at the beginning of the year, it was suggested that I give eleventy a try.
Jason Reed (1)
Little Dummies: Simple FPO Content Helpers
Video, links and code samples from my rapid prototyping talk for the final Eleventy Meetup.
Tyler Sticka (5)
Adding Tests to an Eleventy Site
A small walkthrough on how I added automated tests to this website to stop breaking it.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
Serving Markdown to LLMs with Eleventy
A technical walkthrough on how to serve a Markdown version of all pages with Eleventy.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
Adding Baseline Status to My Eleventy Site
How to integrate the baseline-status web component into Eleventy (Build Awesome) with per-page opt-in loading, Nunjucks shortcodes, and self-hosted scripts. Learn why Baseline provides clearer browser support signals than Can I Use for modern web features.
Stuart Robson (1)
11tyCMS Beta 2: New logo, major bug fixes, improved UX/UI and more!
Welcome back! It's been yet another busy month for 11tyCMS's development. This update focuses on improving the UI/UX to meet our exceptional UX goals. We'v
Jessie Heald (16)
Comparative Study of React, Astro and Eleventy Technologies in Developing a Lottery Statistical Analysis Application
This paper compares React, Astro and Eleventy technologies by developing a web application for analyzing Loto 6/49 and Joker draws. The application includes displaying results, statistics and numerical frequencies. The study evaluates the performance, SEO optimization, ease of development and scalab
Recently Played: bringing back my Last.fm component
How I rebuilt my old Last.fm widget as an Eleventy WebC component with server-rendered HTML, client-side polling, and localStorage caching.
Martin Hicks (3)
Eleventy is now Build Awesome
Build Awesome Pause Announcement
Welp, we launched the Kickstarter for Eleventy / Build Awesome project and got a GREAT initial response — but we discovered a major email deliverability issue (updates weren’t reaching subscribers and were landing in folks' spam folders).
Font Awesome (3)
We’re Pressing Pause on our Kickstarter
News and information from Font Awesome – the internet’s favorite icon set; mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.
Font Awesome (3)
Eleventy Is Rebranding to Build Awesome: What Changes (and What Doesn’t)
In this episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt has a chat with Zach about the Build Awesome Kickstarter, why this rebrand is part of building a sustainable future for the open source project, and what changes (and what doesn’t) for people already running Eleventy sites.
Font Awesome (3)
Automatic Table of Contents with Eleventy
A technical walkthrough on how to automatically generate a table of contents for articles.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
Edge.js Template Plugin for 11ty
Ever felt frustrated with HTML templates like Pug, Handlebars, Liquid, or Nunjucks? If you know JavaScript, you might want to give Edge.js a try! I built a plugin for 11ty and converted my entire blog. TLDR: I like it!
David Neal (3)
My new Learn Eleventy course
Creating a bookshelf from the BookWyrm API
Using 11ty's WebC to separate web components out into separate files
Stuart Langridge of Kryogenix Consulting, for consultancy and custom development on the web and devices
Stuart Langridge (1)
Stats Page with Eleventy
A short technical write-up about aggregating blogging stats and displaying them on a page with Eleventy.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
Tag Pages with Eleventy
A short technical write-up about the introduction of tag pages on this blog.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
Injecting element in Liquid content
A technical write-up on how to find a specific spot within a Liquid post content to inject an element.
Kitty Giraudel (16)
Create pages from JSON files with Eleventy
Eleventy: How to Work Around the “git Last Modified” Performance Bottleneck
On speeding up Eleventy sites when commit dates are too useful to drop.
TechLifeWeb rebuild
Precompressed HTML at the Edge: Eleventy Meets Cloudflare Workers
In this post, I will show you how I integrate Brotli level 11 compression directly into my 11ty build process to squeeze every possible byte out of my blog’s HTML.
Matt Hobbs (8)
Moving Search From Google To PageFind
I'm just enough of a narcissist to believe that people deserve to hear the things I have to say, so discoverability is very important to me. To that end, I've wanted to have some kind of search function on my site to make it easier to find older posts. Around two months ago, I added a Google
Jacen Sekai (1)
How I built UltiGameMate with Eleventy and Supabase
Learn how I built UltiGameMate using Eleventy and Supabase, combining JAMstack with dynamic features.
Ignoring Files with Eleventy
Add a file named .eleventyignore in the root of your project, and add the files that you'd like to ignore. When Eleventy builds, it'll ignore said files.
Josh Sherman (4)
Deploying Your Own IndieWeb Site with Indiekit + Eleventy (Docker Compose based)
Deploying Your Own IndieWeb Site with Indiekit + Eleventy (Docker Compose based) 14 February 2026 indiekit indieweb deploy eleventy A complete guide to deploying Indiekit on...
Ricardo Mendes (1)
Eleventy Tricks
A curated collection of Eleventy (11ty) tricks, starters, command line tips, configuration snippets, and templating techniques.
Anton Staroverov (2)
Eleventy is Noice!!
I keep using Eleventy for more and more projects—and man, it's such a joy to work with! Nothing to get in the way. Nothing to slow me down.
Andrew Houle (1)
Running Eleventy + Puppeteer in Docker on macOS (Colima): The Full Journey
February 6, 2026 I wanted a Docker setup for my Eleventy resume project that also generates a PDF using Puppeteer. I assumed this would be straightforward. It wasn’t.
Nicholas Clooney (7)
How I Sync Mastodon Posts with My 11ty Blog
A walkthrough of a Node.js script that maps Mastodon statuses to blog slugs and updates frontmatter.
DeepakNess (8)
Dynamic Open Graph Images for My 11ty Blog
A quick guide to how I dynamically generate custom Open Graph images for each post on my 11ty blog, using satori.
DeepakNess (8)
Why I Migrated My Homepage From Next.js to Eleventy
Discover why I switched my homepage from Next.js to Eleventy, embracing open source, faster builds, and new opportunities to share content and services.
Predrag Tasevski (1)
Simple themeing strategies for simple websites
Been having some fun with website themes lately, here's a detailed blog post of how I manage them
Grigor Malo (3)
Adding Webmentions to My 11ty Blog
DeepakNess is an internet generalist who likes learning and working on a mix of things across AI, tech, programmatic SEO, marketing, and more.
DeepakNess (8)
Seeking RSS links, favicons, and descriptions
Useful resources to help you add visible RSS links, favicons, and web page descriptions.
Bob Monsour (26)
How a Blog Post Gets Built in My Corner of the Web
My personal draft-to-deploy rhythm: Ulysses for thinking, VS Code for shaping, Eleventy for building, and GitHub Pages for shipping.
Kyle Reddoch (8)
Nunjucks Tricks
A collection of useful Nunjucks and Liquid templating tips & tricks -- primarily for Eleventy, but also useful for Shopify and Jekyll.
Anton Staroverov (2)
11tyCMS: Public beta releases and source! Windows & Linux support, minor refactors and CSS improvements!
Happy new year! It's been over 6 months since we started this journey, and now we're ready to embark on public beta testing! Outside of that, this update i
Jessie Heald (16)
Cache-busting that CSS & JS
On not minifying CSS & JS (part 2)
Better Handling Images on My 11ty Blog
Better image handling on my blog and pre-optimizing them all instead of using @11ty/eleventy-img plugin.
DeepakNess (8)
Minify those CSS & JS bundles? Maybe not.
A Shiny New Bloggy Home
100% AI-free half-assed writing hand crafted by Kevin Lawver about programming, life, cooking and random nonsense.
Kevin Lawver (1)
Creating an Alphabetical Tag Page feat. Nunjucks Pitfalls
I transformed a messy tag list into an organized alphabetical sections, and there were a surprising amount of gotchas I encountered along the way.
Eleventy: Sorted Collection
This is the blog of Lea Rosema, frontend developer with accessibility focus, based in Hamburg
Lea Rosema (7)
twtxt: Simple, Decentralized Microblogging with status.lol
I set up an effortless sync between my status.lol updates and a twtxt feed, creating a bridge between IndieWeb tools and classic decentralized microblogging.
Eleventy: Autopopulating the title variable from the template
This is the blog of Lea Rosema, frontend developer with accessibility focus, based in Hamburg
Lea Rosema (7)
Syndicating posts to mastodon via the gitlab pipeline
An eleventy config for moving from Jekyll
Added Eleventy-Fetch to the Site
The article discusses how the Eleventy Fetch plugin can be used to cache API requests in al 11ty site. By making a few changes to the code, the plugin handles data processing automatically. This simplifies the code and reduces the need for manual data conversion. Additionally, the plugin supports cu
John M. Wargo (47)
Migrating from Cloudflare Pages to Workers (and cleaning up the mess)
My experience merging an 11ty static site and API into a single Cloudflare Worker, plus a bash script to delete old Pages deployments when the dashboard won't let you.
Alex Zappa (3)
Eleventy Adding Page Links to a Post
I created a plugin called Eleventy Plugin Markdown Post Links that adds a list of links to the top of my posts. The plugin has options for different types of lists and can generate links based on a minimum number specified. I implemented it on my site with a collapsible link list feature. You can fi
John M. Wargo (47)
From 65 to 83: Attempts at Performance Optimization
A humble look into the performance optimizations boosting my Lighthouse score from 65 to 83, including critical CSS, layout shift fixes, and image optimization while maintaining the site's design and user experience.
Extending the Post Graph Plugin: Adding Clickable Links and Tooltips
A technical walkthrough of how I extended the eleventy-plugin-post-graph to add clickable links and hover tooltips showing article titles.
Adding Hardcover.app Data to Eleventy
Building an IndieAuth Comment System for Your Static Site
A journey through authentication, CORS issues, and the joy of owning your comments! Learn how to build a comment system for your static site using IndieAuth and Netlify Functions, storing the comments in your git repository.
auld lang syne: The Commonplace (micro)Log
A simple gratitude journal online, with media tracking and Beeminder integration. Yes, yet another 11ty project technical write-up, but I promise you'll learn something.
Deploying An Eleventy Site to NeoCities with GitLab CI/CD
A guide to automatically deploying your Eleventy static site to NeoCities using GitLab CI/CD, including authentication, error handling, and optimizations.