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My cozy corner in the wide expanse of the internet
Overview
This digital garden stands as a testament to the capabilities of 11ty, showcasing the creative possibilities of web development while challenging its boundaries. It operates on certain versions of 11ty, bearing the marks of a passionate developer pushing the limits of what’s possible. The website incorporates a variety of features and is tailored with a unique, flexible design that speaks to both the intricacies and joys of web crafting.
With a strong focus on indie web principles, this site offers dynamic taxonomies and customized styles to create an engaging user experience. While the developer humorously acknowledges minor shortcuts in hardcoding social media elements, the overall architecture remains robust and adaptable, serving as an impressive example of modern web design.
Features
- Dynamic Taxonomies: Utilizes flexible taxonomies for organizing content, free from hardcoded structures.
- Custom Stylesheets: Tailored design elements that ensure a unique look and feel, emphasizing personalization.
- 11ty Integration: Leverages 11ty for templating and markdown usage, facilitating easy page creation and content management.
- Cloudflare Support: Utilizes Cloudflare for improved performance and server-side functionalities like greeting greetings on the homepage.
- SVG Generation: Incorporates Satori for generating OpenGraph SVGs, ensuring effective imagery for social media sharing.
- User Contribution Welcomed: Encourages community involvement through a clear contribution process, inviting users to add content and improvements.
- Easy Setup: Provides straightforward instructions for cloning and setting up a development environment using simple commands.
- Licensing Flexibility: Offers a permissive approach towards using and modifying the site's codebase, allowing for creative derivatives.
- Eleventy
11ty is a static site generator that allows developers to build fast, modern websites using HTML, Markdown, and other templating languages, without the need for a complex build system.
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Digital Garden
A digital garden is a personal, evolving website that shares interconnected ideas and projects.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
