What's that?
In my daily work as a web developer, I often learn a lot. All the technologies evolve in a very fast way and there is always something new: New problems, new technologies, new tools, new laws, and so on ...
In the last couple of months, I often thought "Wow! I should write down that to remember" or even "Maybe this could help others, too" - But I had no place to write down or publish.
Of course, I would know how to set up and configure a blog. But as I once mentioned on Mastodon, I had very specific expectations and no motivation to spend a lot of time to set up a blog with my well known technologies.
From some people, I follow on Mastodon, I read about the static site generator 11ty and decided to give it a chance. - And I'm really amazed how it exactly fitted my previously defined needs!
It should have an RSS feed.
Oh yes, it has: /feed/feed.xml
It should have a modern and well readable design.
Well, you can discuss that topic. But I like it.
It should have a good and simple usability.
There are three links in the navigation, no popups or overlays. I would call it a simple usability.
Its markup should be completely accessible and WCAG conform.
Test it by yourself. I am happy with it.
The pages should load very performantly.
Nothing performs better than static pages nearly without any assets.
I don’t want to spend much time to set it up and maintain it.
I cloned https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-base-blog, did some little changes in the CSS files, added my logo and was done!
And there even are some bonuses:
- It was absolutely easy to configure for a mixed language setup so I can blog in English and German.
- It even supports tagging for blog posts
I am very happy with this solution and looking forward what will happen next!