11ty is dead, long live Build Awesome
The static site generator I've backed for years just got its future sorted.
Eleventy
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Blog art that belongs
Every post needs a hero image. Sometimes you don't need the perfect one — you just need something that doesn't clash.
Semantic search on a static site, no API keys required
Vector embeddings at build time, cosine similarity in the browser. The same 23 MB model runs both sides.
Site search without a search service
No API keys, no external service — just a build step and one HTML attribute.
Predictable, token-based filenames with Eleventy Image
How I swapped Eleventy Image’s hashed outputs for readable, stable names — and the trade‑offs.
A simpler, faster site: moving to pure Eleventy v3
I upgraded the site to Eleventy v3, removed Gulp and the Visual Framework, and simplified everything.
Moving from Panini to Eleventy
Back in February 2018, I wrote about updating this site to use a static-site generator by Zurb (makers of the Foundation Framework) called Panini.
Fractal and Eleventy: Getting static sites closer to the design system
For the Visual Framework 2.0 component system we recommend Eleventy for static sites: Eleventy sites get direct access to component templates with associated metadata and a focused component library.
Integrating Eleventy with gulp, upstream JS
Eleventy notes that it, "works great with data — use both front matter and external data files" but the static site generator stops short of working well with upstream in-memory data objects for local development.
