Consider this a little space to put the thoughts and musings that I’ve written, or have yet to write. From a more technical side, it’ll also serve as a place for me to take notes as I learn new technologies in the ever-evolving tech world. Most tinkerers and perpetual learners will agree: aside from the official documentation, personal notes of people describing how they solved problems or configured tools are the single most useful source of information when grappling with new technologies.
Let this, then, be my tiny contribution to the edifice that is the grand sum of personal technical blogs.
The first thing one notices when looking at the Eleventy documentation is that *there isn’t really much there*. It’s about as bare bones as it gets: no complicated data models, no strict directory hierarchies. Eleventy takes all files from one folder, compiles them, and generates a folder of output files. Learning how to use it was, in a word, a breeze.
Read more →There is a bit of a trope, a tradition, that the first thing that is discussed on a newly founded blog should be how said blog was set up and configured. I wouldn’t dare break away from this tradition, and will in due time write down the nitty gritty that went into setting up this blog, the things I’ve learned and the gripes I had with the tools used. In this particular post, though, I’d like to start by talking about some of the reasons for choosing the particular technologies that I did.
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