Off we go

• 30 September 2024
• blogging, hugo, 11ty, eleventy

This is my first blog post in ages. I'm out of practice and it's getting late, so I'll keep this one brief. I don't even know where to begin... and when we don't know where to begin, we know we can always fall back into the warm embrace of tooling ❤️ .

What am I cooking with? #

• Eleventy -> I'm creating this blog as a static site with the help of Eleventy
• Editor: Visual Studio Code
  • Active plugins:
    • Vim
    • Nunjucks Template
    • Markdown All in One
    • Code Spell Checker
• Render -> I'm deploying the static site using Render

Let's blog! #

What is Eleventy? It's what I will use to generate my blog as a static website. Eleventy has had a lot of great press from the frontend community. Hugo also has appealing (and robust!) reputation after years of in action. I spent too much time trawling hacker news and reddit comments, and I've decided to try both. Eleventy is first up.

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Let's deploy! #

I couldn't come up with anything clever to write so I thought to myself, "let's see if we can even get this thing off the ground". First, I'll start with some sane defaults using eleventy-base-blog. After following some simple instructions, we have a dev server up with some fake posts showing us what can be ours someday:

Next time #

I'll talk about how I just spent 3 hours trying to get these images sized correctly and almost threw in the towel with Eleventy. Stay tuned.