danieljblumenfeld.com

My personal site-slash-excuse to play with unfamiliar technologies. Currently, that means Eleventy, Bootstrap, and HTML/CSS/JS: I'm in the midst of a security kick, so static site generation appeals far more than administering a LAMP or ASP.NET instance.

Site Contents

• Blog: whatever I feel like sharing with the world. (with categories, RSS)
• Notes To Self: simple how-tos and reminders. (with categories, RSS)
• CV: really more of a personal narrative than something to be submitted for consideration.
• Legacy content: things like the CtC FAQ that I provided in prior incarnations of this site.
• Recipes (soon)

Tech Info

• Run `npm start' to kick off the Eleventy build and serve the site at http://localhost:8080.
• Updates to the files will result in a rebuild and refresh of the page in the browser.
• Note: occasionally, Eleventy loses its mind and fails to rebuild for reasons other than bad code on your part...in that case, just kill the priocess via Ctrl-C and restart via npm start

Auto build

Using Github Action on commit to main, runs npm install and npm run build, then deploys the _site folder to the github-pages environment

Eleventy Resources

• 11ty.dev
• Jaydan Urwin's "Eleventy Crash Course" video series
• I started development of this site with this guide from Raymond Camden

Other resources

• Jamstack.org and their Github site
• Zombie Ipsum: my favorite source of quick filler text

TODO

• Work out cleaner/better UI and styling
• Work out consistent styling/formatting for attributions
• Work out searching
• Work out anonymous logging of 404s to an external provider
• Look into full support for the Atom 1.0 feed standard...summaries, update versus create date, contributors, etc.
• Decide on and adhere to a syntax standard: Markdown for all blog and NTS posts? Nunjucks for feeds? HTML for standalone pages?
• Consider adding a third category of posts...tutorials. Or just a specific blog category with its own dedicated endpoint?
• Clean up the CtC FAQ
• Implement recipes

Initial Setup (preserved for posterity until I write up a formal tutorial)

npm init -y to create package.json

npm i -D @11ty/eleventy to install Eleventy

Created /src/ folder

Created /src/index.html

Created /.eleventy.js

Installed Nunjucks and Nunjucks Snippets extensions in VSCode

Blog

Started with this guide, but used /blog as the root.

NTS (Notes to Self)

Unordered collection of short and sweet how-tos, etc. Basically identical to the blog, but using /nts as the root.

RSS Feeds for Blog and NTS

As described in this guide