I have just released version 3.0 of Eleventy Excellent, now fully on ESM and with many other changes, including my attempts to learn more about WebC and web components. Contributions very welcome! 💚
I really like that it can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be.
I'm not quite sold on it for hosting blogs (yet), but I've migrated a few of my smaller projects for which I've used a simple node app (mainly to take advantage of templating).
Huge improvement in memory consumption! For example, https://simplepagebuilder.app went from 67.89MB down to just 6.07MB.
I want to redo my website again, because it really doesn't reflect a "digital cafe" or "garden". Does anyone have favorite #11ty templates they can share? I've seen so many gorgeous sites but don't have the talent to make a theme from scratch 😅
Every month I pay subscriptions for Netflix, Spotify and Google. But none of them provide as much value to me as #11ty - its the best tool I know, and I use it for everything I can.
That's why I'm a long time supporter of the project - and now that it's going independent, you should consider becoming one too!
I want to live in the kind of world where great folks like @zachleat can sustain themselves independently with a full-time focus on #opensource projects like @eleventy!
Exciting moment for the #11ty community and open source in general 🎉
While I've only recently started to spend serious time using @eleventy, I've long admired and align with the values/culture @zachleat has been cultivating for years.
Zach is now looking for help to independently go full-time on #11ty. I want to share and encourage anyone with extra money, influence, or both to consider supporting this project.
Like other folks have been saying today, I too want to live in a world where projects like 11ty are sustainable.
Why have I been sleeping on AVIF!? The site I tested it on isn't particularly image heavy, but turning 1.8 MB .png into 330 KB .avif is just an absolute win. All done on the fly thanks to the 11ty Image Plugin 💚
If you're only gonna watch one thing this weekend, watch this amazing talk about the history of styling in the web and the guiding principles of how browsers work with regards to styling by @mia from last week's 11ty conference.
I’ll write more about this next week, but last night I quietly switched over to a new 11ty v3 build of my site. Cut myself on the bleeding edge a few times but also figured out a whole lot of fun things!
My goal this week is deploying the next major release of my #11ty Interlinking (wikilink) plugin and catching up on publishing my last 31 weeks in review :thisisfine: