don’t animate a vacuum
When someone hands you a shapeless non-question, it is easy to contort yourself trying to guess what would satisfy it. I know this because I am very good at it. But before solving…
Ombogo Jr
Building things and writing down what the building taught me. Static sites, small tools, and the occasional strong opinion.
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5 entriesI Don’t Want to Build Brochure Websites
My friend Ash recently commented that I’m picky, choosy, and apparently unwilling to work with just anyone. He is not entirely wrong. Of course I need the money. I have bills, busi…
Eleventy vs a Hand-Rolled Build
Having built the same small site both ways, once on Eleventy and once on a single hand-rolled script, I want to lay the two side by side honestly. Neither is wrong. They just fail…
Building a Site on Eleventy
I started this site the way I start most things: with a folder and a vague plan. This time the plan was to lean on Eleventy and let it do the boring parts, and I came away happy en…
Building a Site on a Hand-Rolled Build
Before I settled on a generator, I built a version of this site with nothing but a single Node script. No framework, no plugins, just a file called build.mjs. It was a good exercis…