Chris Burnell 8 posts
Author: CHRIS BURNELL (8 posts)
I’m Chris Burnell, a Front End Developer / Software Engineer based in Halifax, Canada. This is where I think, write, and share my passion for front end development and the web.
2025
I was tagged several days ago on Mastodon, as someone was looking for a "90s-style 88x31 footer GIF" for pages built with Eleventy, and [... I] gave animating the badge a shot!
2024
An update on two projects I’ve been working on—one new and one old—based on some development oversights I’ve made in the past that I’d like to prevent going forward.
In this post, I explain how I solved two issues at the same time by introducing a feature to my post layout that I’m calling pre and post includes.
I had a revelation earlier today that solved a long-standing performance issue I’ve been having with the initial build of my Eleventy website, and here’s how it saved me a bunch of time!
2023
Cache webmentions using eleventy-fetch and make them available to use in collections, layouts, pages, etc. in Eleventy.
2022
Here’s a quick run-through of how I retrieve and use Webmentions with my Eleventy website.
2020
For a long time I’ve been searching for a sound solution to storing the entire Webmention history of my blog, as packaging it up with the rest of the repository was not cutting it for me. Enter the world of async.