Porting Blog to 11ty March 12, 2025

Why?

I was using Hugo before 11ty and I remember being pretty happy with it. The problem is: once two years have passed, I can't remember a whole lot about how the site was put together.

Additionally, Hugo has a bit too many bells and whistles for me.

Enter 11ty. 11ty is very straightforward to use. I'm writing mostly my own html and css, and not having to fiddle with things too much. Everything just sort of works and it stays simple

How?

I just peeked at the 11ty docs and updated the repo that netlify pulls from to host my site. It was actually pretty easy to do and netlify still works great.

Design

I'm no incredible designer, but I really like the new look of the blog. Since I didn't have to fiddle around with any templates, it was much easier to get things to look the way I wanted them to. Everything is just plain old html/css.