11ty Alternatives

Mon, Jan 15, 2024

I've noticed the server I'm hosting this on has locked up a few times recently, which led me down the rabbit hole of looking for alternative headless CMS's, but I'm quite enjoying learning 11ty, so just moved everything to another server.

I don't know if it's something else doing it, but by eliminating one possible it will help me track things... Read More

mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYH8DsU2WCk
 

Frustrations abound

Sun, Jan 14, 2024

Just spent a frustrating hour or two trying to get a nicer back end installed on here, but with no luck. DecapCMS kept on trying to authorize itself with Netlify, despite authorizing myself to do it.

So instead I am using Typora to create this post. It's a very nice, simple to use but comprehensive Markdown editor. Main reason I was looking for something else is that it would be nice to have something available anywhere.

It does also need access to the filesystem (in this case... Read More

mood: Frustrated
 

How much rain?

Sat, Jan 13, 2024

Just came back from trying to take Penny for a walk. As we live close to the sea we normally like to go to the local beach, but couldn't get there today as all the roads were closed.

Looking online the whole place is underwater, and it's a bloody mess. Lots of debris over the road, houses and cars... Read More

mood: wet
 

CSS'sssss?

Sat, Jan 13, 2024

Simplified the styling in the nunjucks files.

I like the tailwindcss, as it's kind of old school, but not sure if they use it on their own site? Must be something clever going on.

mood: head aches
 

Sorted!

Sat, Jan 13, 2024

Got the front page to only show the most recent content by adding the following to my .eleventy.js file

  eleventyConfig.addCollection("front", function(Read More

    
mood: why is it still raining and so windy?