February 28, 2023
After years without publishing anything here, my recent adventures at Lightspark made me want to write some things again.
Every time I want to write, the procrastinating part of my brain takes over and I need to cleanup whatever blog software I'm using. Initially, I managed to resist it, but my previous engine, Jekyll was completely outdated. Nothing could be built anymore, upgrading was a super big pain because none of the plugins I used we working and I don't like know Ruby.
So instead of doing something simple and just write some content, I started the far more attractive complex task of rebuilding this website. After some research, I found this new fancy 11ty ("eleventy") framework that is supposed to be a replacement for Jekyll in javascript. I like Javascript, so I went for it.
And... it was really easy. I only spent a couple of hours on it when I was fully prepared to stay up all night battling the Javascript gods.
10/10. Strongly recommend.
The only tricky part was to get it to publish properly to Github Pages. I had to change the output directory in the .eleventy.js config file to:
module.exports = function (eleventyConfig) {
// Other stuff
return {
dir: {
output: "docs",
},
};
};Then in my Github Pages config, I went to:
https://github.com/{organization}/{repository}/settings/pagesand changed the directory to /docs. Github is pretty limited and only accepts / or /docs as a directory to serve pages content 🤷♂️
Hopefully, I'll be able to write something soon. But not today. Today, I rebuilt my website.