A fresh coat of paint and making information actionable for 24 years
From early 2000s information design to semantic maps in 2026, the tools changed; my interest in how information connects did not.
static sites
1.0Entries
Building a virtual garage for hobby projects
I wanted my GitHub Pages hobby projects on-domain without a complicated workflow; Vercel rewrites turned out to be the cleanest path.
Site search without a search service
No API keys, no external service — just a build step and one HTML attribute.
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.
Migrating to Zurb Panini 2.0
Not yet stable yet, but has some compelling features.
A new site for little reason
As is apt for us web types, on 25 July 2017 I gave a reboot to this website.
