Tools & technology this site uses. It's always important to call out those doing good work so we all share the love.
Eleventy
The core static site generator used by this site, and which enables y'all to read these silly words.
Eleventy RSS Plugins
Set of plugins for eleventy to enable clean & sensible generation of feeds
Eleventy Syntax Highlighting Plugin
There's some code on this site -- we want it to look pretty. So here we are, using this pretty rad plugin.
Html Minifier Terser
Squeeze that HTML to be a little less verbose.
Attributes for Markdown It
Markdown can't do it all. But with {}'s, it can -- but you need an extension.
Footnote Plugin for Markdown It
Footnotes are rad. But they need an extension for Markdown It. This is it!
Font Awesome
The little footer at the bottom of the site needed some zazzle. So, rather than linking with text, I wanted some icons. Found that font awesome makes some available for free in both font, and SVG format.
These are licensed under Creative Commons 4.0. Details here
On this site, I use these icons in SVG format:
- GitHub
- Home
- RSS
Netlify
Hosting provided for free, with easy hook up to github, and nice proxying rules.
Sass
We use some sass because css can be hard.