Over at The 260 Bowler I’ve added a handful of diary entries (just blog posts), so now I want a diary page (think recent posts). I started simply, iterating over all the entries, summarizing them, then starting to add nice styles so that they look vaguely like a diary page. I’ll make it look really nice before I move on. I thought, “Hey! I should show these in reverse order, and then limit then to something like 5 or 10 entries.” When I thought about how to do that, I immediately jump...| The Code Whisperer
I recently started a new project and used this as an opportunity to learn and practise a few things, among which we find 11ty, a static site generator. I fancy myself a static site generator hipster—I did it before people called it “JAMstack” and made it cool—first with Octopress, then with Jekyll. Indeed, I’ve built my other sites with Jekyll and even built the occasional plug-in, taking advantage of my experience working in Ruby. In spite of my successes with Jekyll, I became espe...| The Code Whisperer