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Tobias Fedder 7 posts

Tobias Fedder writes about the joy of frontend web development, using his website as an example.

2025
Marking blog posts as drafts in 11ty

I had a look at enabling drafts for this site again, and it turned out that, in current versions, it is very easy to do.

Rendering FreeMarker and Python page templates with 11ty

11ty, FreeMarker Generator, and Chameleon allow me to render FreeMarker and Python page templates to HTML within the same static site generator.

2024
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.

Updating 11ty to enjoy ESM

I updated the version of 11ty I use for this blog to the current alpha, to switch from CJS to ESM.

Minifying and compressing text files to reduce load

I am continuing to catch up with the technical basics for a modern‐day website. This time I add minification and compression to my 11ty build and the Caddy configuration.

2023
Deploying my website

From running my website for myself on my machine to hosting it publicly for everyone.

Generating a static blog with Eleventy

From 0 to minimal blog using 11ty. I tell you the steps I took to create the minimal technical basis for this website's content.

Some content below may have been published before the release of Eleventy v3.0.0 (October 1, 2024). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12
Some content below may have been published before the release of Eleventy v2.0.0 (Feb 8, 2023). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12.
Some content below may have been published before the release of Eleventy v1.0.0 (Jan 8, 2022). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12.
All of the content below was published before the release of Eleventy v1.0.0 (Jan 8, 2022). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12.