Bob Monsour 20 posts

Today I learned how to fetch a raw JSON file from GitHub at build time in Eleventy. Here's how I did it.

I presented at the 11ty Meetup on how I built my Books page. Here's the video and a link to a PDF of the slides.

I've been able to fully automate the process of creating, at initial post time, a unique and permanent ID for each RSS feed entry.

Rather than have my RSS entry ID be missing, I wanted to validate its presence at build time.

In an effort to create more robust and truly unique and permanent IDs for my RSS feed entries, I built a thing to help.

I was inspired to create permanently unique entry IDs for my RSS feed after reading a post by Evan Sheehan.

I went live with my Books page a short while ago. Here's how I built it.

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.

I use the Pagefind package to add search to my personal site. It was returning way too many result for simple words. I made a small tweak to fix that.

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.

I upgraded to 11ty v3 and proceeded to debug.

I decided to take on some overdue refactoring of the 11tybundle.dev site. Here's what I did.

I've reduced the build time for the 11ty Bundle site from 30 seconds to 10 seconds. Here's how.

I had told myself that I wouldn't do this...but, seeing them on other people's sites changed my mind.

I've been wanting to add search functionality to this site for a while. Pagefind made it simple.

Here's how the Firehose page of the 11tybundle.dev site is built.

Here I use a javascript template to generate json data files for selected categories of the 11tybundle.dev site.

Just generating a json file from Google Sheets was not good enough. I had to use the API.

Evolution is a continuous phenomenon.

Handling CSS in Eleventy has been an evolutionary experience.