making a blog

• 23 September 2024
• RC

I heard about 11ty when they joined fontawesome.

• quick builds
• no client side javascript
• bunch of markdown files

Perfect!

I bought holdenlucas.com a while ago for my email, but I haven't used any other parts of the DNS records.

$ whois holdenlucas.com

Bunch of Cloudflare. Apparently, I lease my domain from them for 11 dollars a year.

I check my DNS records; two MX and one TXT for my email, and 3 CNAME for a site I never created.

Cloudflare has a serverless hosting option called Pages.

1. Get a domain
2. Clone eleventy-base-blog to a private Github repo
3. Point Pages at it
   • build command = npx @11ty/eleventy
   • build output directory = _site

A build takes ~20 seconds. The dev cycle is fast enough that I don't run the local server.

The build environment also seems featurful.

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