Issue 70 - 11ty Meetup Videos, Getty does digital books, Speedlify updated, California is engaged with 11ty, 11ty info architecture improvements, Chobble does starters...And 7 releases, 16 posts, and 15 sites to see https://11tybundle.dev/blog/11ty-bundle-70/ #11ty @eleventy

Looking for CMS advice

Hey Web devs!

Do you have any suggestions, tips, opinions, dos, don’ts about headless CMSes?

I have a growing list of small/mid non-profits and collectives asking for my help to (re)make their website. I totally want to help, but I don’t have much time, especially considering that they generally have little or no funding—I would most definitely point them to @VillageOneCoop, otherwise.

Therefore, I want a super simple and replicable solution where I can copy-paste most of the code, while providing them with a stable, fast, and modern solution. I had a look at the Headless CMS section in the Jamstack website, but I need opinions from people who actually used some of that software already.

Needs

• I want to code and configure everything using @eleventy
• Admin interface (#WebApp) for the client to add pages and write posts
• Static website in the front-end
• Simple and reliable CI/CD
• No/minimal maintenance after the first setup
• Self-hostable (I was taking this for granted so much that I forgot to write it)
• #OpenSource

Nice to have

• Possibly using #Deno, not #NodeJS
• Allowing the client to customize a bit their website through the admin interface, with a GUI
• CMS app packaged on @yunohost
• No CMS vendor lock-in
• I’d love to write as little JavaScript as possible
• #FreeSoftware

Absolutely not

• Front-end #JavaScript frameworks

Please, boost this and ask around! Links to videos, tutorials, and resources are welcome.

People whose perspective I would really value: @zachleat @harryfk @deno_land @jaredwhite @vanillaweb @stefan @mxbck @WeirdWriter @deadsuperhero (Sorry if I am spamming you!)

After some deep thinking about how to make The Office of Carbon Omission easier to scale in terms of more content, beyond only the Flight Permission Application, I decided to try out #11ty.

It was a surprisingly straightforward experience to refactor the site and have it up again. The tweaks for now is only that one can see that it is prepared for more topics, laws, permits, science and news. And each will be easier to add. Still at the same old adress: https://carbonomission.org

Moving 18 years of comments out of Disqus and into my 11ty static site #blogging (thanks for #11ty and eleventy-import-disqus, @zachleat!)

Tweaking my 11ty blog to link to the Mastodon post defined in an Org Mode property #11ty #mastodon #org #emacs

I used eleventy-post-graph to add a quick year visualization to my year pages (2025, 2024, ...) and a visualization for the whole blog. Someday it might be nice to make it more accessible and figure out how I can link to the blog post(s) for that day. #11ty #viz #blogging

I'm not sure if my outie knows I use #11ty.

Anyone have an #11ty example of syntax highlighting code saved in a file? I wanted to output the content of my eleventy config file and package.json in itself. (I’m making a presentation, in 11ty, on how minimal 11ty can be to use)

Call for Presentations

I'm looking for the next speakers for the 11ty meetup! Speakers of all levels welcome! Got a talk idea related to 11ty and/or the indie web? Let me know!

#11ty

https://11tymeetup.dev/

P.S. Old speakers, we can now add separate social media profiles for Mastodon and Bluesky - check the 11ty Discord (preferred) or DM me your updates.

mastodon.el: Copy toot URL after posting; also, copying just this post with 11ty https://sachachua.com/blog/2025/03/mastodon-el-copy-toot-url-after-posting-also-copying-just-this-post-with-11ty/ #mastodon #emacs #11ty

(thanks for your patience with all the testing!)

Nudged by A Walk Through My Digital Neighborhood // Take on Rules by @takeonrules and also my recent focus on having more conversations around blog post ideas (and sometimes the annoyance of finding someone's contact info), I added comment links to my RSS/Atom items (https://sachachua.com/blog/feed/index.xml and https://sachachua.com/blog/feed/atom/index.xml, and also all the categories have feeds generally at category/.../feed/index.xml). If I've set a Mastodon URL for the entry, it'll link to the Mastodon thread too. #11ty

I will forever think it is not ready and keep futzing but heck I need to push this thing live. Had some fun over the last couple of days building this with #11ty - Contribute your TechCat #caturday https://techcats.netlify.app/

Using #11ty plugin for font awesome svg icons with no clientside javascript

eleventy-plugin-font-awesome by @zachleat

https://equk.co.uk/2025/03/23/11ty-font-awesome-svg-plugin

YACCB - Yet Another Copy Code Button

#11ty

https://bobmonsour.com/blog/yet-another-copy-code-button/