Recently I, among a whole lot of others, revived my Mastodon account now that a spoiled brat took over Twitter and is currently burning it to the ground. Along with the revival I started searching for the people I'd like to follow and I saw several accounts that had verified link … | Continue reading
I started out creating these notes with the date in the url, because I thought it was an easy way to keep some overview of my notes. But it turned out to be rather annoying when I was creating new posts. I rarely start and finish a post on the same day, which meant I would have t … | Continue reading
Full disclosure: I'm writing this mainly because I keep having to look up how I've set up my development environment. I'm happy with how it's set up, but because I use it for some hobby projects and the occasional client work, I keep forgetting how I have to set up a new project. … | Continue reading
At the moment the only image on my website is my logo on the homepage. But since it's an SVG, I decided to load it directly in the HTML. I could just copy the contents of the SVG file and paste it where I wanted it. But if I decide to have the image at several different places, a … | Continue reading
When I wrote the post about Implementing clientside webmentions a while ago it was mentioned by Nicolas Hoizey that this implementation would result in many requests to webmention.io. And although that's the result of having a static website with dynamic webmentions, I still want … | Continue reading
When sharing links on social media, it's nice to have an image instead of just the link. To achieve this you can implement the og: meta tags. You can check out the Open Graph protocol for more information about all the available tags. To define this image you can use the og:image … | Continue reading
I came across webmentions a while ago and I wanted to try it out. If you don't know what a webmention is, Wikipedia describes it as follows: Webmention enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, referring to, or commenting on their articles. By incorporating such comment … | Continue reading
Because I'm still following my Unhurried Development principle I'm taking small steps and making small changes. That's how I came across an issue with cached assets[1]. A cached CSS file in my case, to be specific. And although it's easy to force reload on desktop browsers, this … | Continue reading
To give my website a bit more personality I wanted to use a webfont instead of a system font. And because variable fonts are gaining traction I thought I would give it a shot. If you're not familiar with variable fonts, I would suggest you read the Introduction to variable fonts … | Continue reading
With the rise of all the different social media platforms several years ago, RSS was deemed unnecesary. Even Google discontinued Google Reader in 2013. But with the weird algorithms used in social media, lots of people (well, lots of developers at least) still rely on feeds to ha … | Continue reading
I recently stumbled upon an article posted on CSS-Tricks about How to Favicon in 2021. Usually I would just use whatever a Favicon Generator would output for me, but it always felt like it returned...well...a lot! That's great though, because you can serve a favicon on every brow … | Continue reading
When creating collections, like I am with these notes, it's expected to have an index file of all the posts. All my notes are under the /notes/ url path, but by default the /notes/ url path itself isn't available. And creating a file in the notes folder in the Eleventy project wo … | Continue reading
When writing notes it's important to add a date to them. Even if it's just for your own use, it can be really helpful for future you to directly see how recent and relevant the note is. Because in the ever changing world of front-end development just a year can make a real differ … | Continue reading
I recently changed hosting and instead of moving my old website, I thought it was the perfect time to build the new website I had in my mind for a while now. The only problem was, I hadn't even started on it yet. And before I would have it at a stage where I feel comfortable enou … | Continue reading