Blog

My personal blog, forked from this Eleventy starter template.

New features I added

• Redesigned with two-column layout on medium+ screen sizes (and consolidated default.njk into main.njk), new tag appearance, and more.
• Automatic dark mode (matches system preference)
• Updated to Tailwind CSS v3.1.6
• SVG favicon
• RSS feed
• Prose width optimized for readability while images & embeds (except Quotebacks) go to full width
• Built-in Quotebacks with style tweaks to match site theme & system appearance
• Footnotes in Markdown posts
• Markdown attributes plugin

Original template features

• Static Site Gen - Eleventy
• Tailwind CSS v2.0 / Tailwind Typography / Dark Mode
• Create excerpts using the <!-- excerpt -->
• Custom ReadTime filter
• 404 page
• Tags page to view posts related to tag
  • Use of a tagList collection defined in .eleventy.js
  • /tags - show all available tags (excluding all and posts) as buttons (tags.md)
  • /tags/tag-name - shows all posts related to that tag (tagList.md)
• Sitemap and Robots.txt
  • Change site url in _data/site.json
• Shortcode to handle images
  • Add image under src/assets/img/posts and use the asset_img short code
  • {% asset_img 'filename' 'alt_text' %} eg. {% asset_img 'mailbox.jpg' 'picture of a mailbox' %}
  • You can provide an optional third argument if your image isn't inside src/assets/img/posts
  • eg. {% asset_img 'mailbox.jpg' 'picture of a mailbox' '/images/'
• Draft posts using the published frontmatter
• Posts pagination in index.html
  • change the size frontmatter variable
• ESLint
• Bash script to create new post (based on YYYY and MM)

$ ./create new blog post
Created new post at src/posts/2021/01/new-blog-post.md

Credits

• Mark Thomas Miller's blog post comparing popular static site generators, which helped me decide on Eleventy over Next.js. Also, his blog post explaining how Eleventy works.
  • Also his post on adding a site map.
• Tom Critchlow's "Provocations for Blogging"
• Daring Fireball & Pixel Envy for blog inspo, along with
• Donovan Maidens' template for demonstrating how to configure a navigation active state in 11ty.
• Mark Llobrera's blog post about customizing the Markdown footnotes plugin.
• Charlie Park's post explaining a filter function to convert straight quotes to curly (Yes this matters).