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Issue 43 - The 11ty conference happened...a roundup, New eleventy-img wow-ness, A POSSE repo, Two new categories, A reading time plugin...
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A note from Bob:
I've managed to find an hour here and an hour there, while traveling, so maybe there won't be a gap in my posting. Anyway...we've got a good one this week. Let's get to it!
Highlights
The 11ty Conference happened...a roundup. On May 9th, the 11ty conference aired live, and it was a real good conference about making web sites real good. If you want to watch it from start to finish, the entire conference is right here on YouTube.
Here's a set of talk-by-talk links in case you don't want to watch them in order. These links are also in the description of the full video. I'm skipping the 20-minute countdown, but it was hilarious as at each 11-second mark past the minute, a random voice would say "eleven" in a unique way.
- Kickoff!
- Future of 11ty by Zach Leatherman
- Hints & Suggestions (First, Do No Harm) by Miriam Suzanne
- 11ty and Large-Project Tooling by Paul Everitt
- Digital Frontiers, IndieWeb Cowboys, and A Place Online To Call Your Own by Henry Desroches
- You're Probably Doing Web Performance Wrong by Sia Karamalegos
- Building a Town That Doesn't Exist by Dan Sinker
- 11ty Sites for People Who Don't Think they are Web Developers by Adrianna Tan
- Don't Fear the Cascade by Mayank
- Managing content management (with no vendor lock-in): Git CMS and static API generation, together at last! by Liam Bigelow and David Large
- Come to the light side: HTML Web Components by Chris Ferdinandi
- Chinese Type Systems by Ivan Zhao
- Light mode versus Dark mode by Sara Joy
- Recap
The conference was exceptionally well done and everything was on time. And the talks were varied and interesting.
New eleventy-img wow-ness. During Zach's talk on the Future of Eleventy, he showed off a new way to use the eleventy-img plugin. Just watch the talk and be prepared to be wow'd.
A POSSE repo. If you've wondered about POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere), in a follow-up to his talk at the 11ty Conference, Henry Desroches has created a posse-with-11ty, "...a very basic implementation of a POSSE-style microblog publishing strategy using IndieWeb principles and some IndieWeb services."
Two new categories. I've created two new categories here. First, with all of the post-conference reflection posts that I've come across, I've given them a home as the 11ty Conference category. Second, while there is already a Drafts category, I noticed that some of them also discussed scheduling. And as I've run across a couple of other posts on scheduling, it felt like it was time to give it its own category. So, Scheduling is now a thing.
A reading time plugin. While some of us have written our own implementation of "reading time" to add that to our posts, this plugin by Max Boll just surfaced and it's a nice, lightweight, configurable approach for those who don't want to write their own. You can find it on GitHub at eleventy-plugin-readingtime. He also wrote a blog post about it.
Until next time...