Tag: web-development
A Summer of Plumbing: JCRT, KC Works, and the Build Awesome Builds
What changed under the hood at jcrt.org this summer: 829 DOIs through KC Works, a faster and quieter Eleventy build, and the Editorial-style sidebar I finally got right.
Teia Today: August 2026
When I wrote about Teia in February, much of that article described work still in development.
Five Lessons Indieweb Developers Can Learn from Ken Hawkins
I tried browser-side semantic search on thewhitestonefoundation.org after reading Ken Hawkins, measured it against my actual readers, and replaced it with Pagefind. The idea was still right.
HTTP Entity Tags
Cache validation and conditional updates with ETag, If-None-Match, and If-Match
Two Domains, One Build: Hosting .ngo and .ong Together with Eleventy and xmit
The small deployment breakthrough that let me serve one complete Eleventy site at both aila.ngo and aila.ong without turning either domain into a redirect.
11tyx5, Reprise: Build Awesome Alpha, a Whitestone Metasearch, and the Quest for Four 100s
Build Awesome alpha.10, a five-site Pagefind metasearch, faster builds, chasing four 100s in PageSpeed, and a Cloudflare cache lesson.
Easier Font Awesome SVGs in 11ty
Notes from using the @11ty/font-awesome plugin while migrating a site from Jekyll to Build Awesome, including the small CSS and icon-class fixes that made the SVG output behave.
How Build Awesome alpha, async Nunjucks, and smaller Cloudflare checks fixed my podcast build
Notes on moving a podcast site from Eleventy 3 to Build Awesome alpha, using Nunjucks v4 full async, shrinking Cloudflare _headers, and cutting deploy time from about 59 seconds to about 31 seconds.
Making Static Sites FAIR with metadata.json, Zotero, Eleventy, and Jekyll
A detailed implementation note on adding FAIR Signposting, per-page Schema.org metadata.json files, Zotero metadata, and citation automation across Eleventy and Jekyll sites.
Making Blogs Easier to Cite with Zotero
What I learned from implementing Zotero-friendly metadata across adamdjbrett.com, JCRT, The New Polis, Esthesis, and The Whitestone Foundation.
One for the Adapters Box
an easy way to move from Bluesky to RSS, and why that matters to me
Building bdbch.com: How I built my new site in a day
How I rebuilt my personal website using Astro, Motion, some AI agents, and an embarrassingly small token bill.
Single-origin deployment with bhvr
Fried my Pi using a 10V solar panel without a buck converter.
Single-origin deployment with bhvr
Fried my Pi using a 10V solar panel without a buck converter.
Pure Internet: no-html
A minimalist web experiment using plain text on Bluesky storage—proving websites don't need HTML/CSS/JS.
Pure Internet: no-html
A minimalist web experiment using plain text on Bluesky storage—proving websites don't need HTML/CSS/JS.
orbz dot com
StumbleUpon nostalgia sparked a new discovery tool: orbz.
orbz dot com
StumbleUpon nostalgia sparked a new discovery tool: orbz.
Pure Internet: Bluesky
Exploring non-standard web hosting via Bluesky's AT Protocol—a content-addressable system similar to IPFS that can serve as a minimalist.
Pure Internet: Bluesky
Exploring non-standard web hosting via Bluesky's AT Protocol—a content-addressable system similar to IPFS that can serve as a minimalist.
Pure Internet: NFC
HTML, CSS & minimal JS combined with NFC tech to create serverless web experiences.
Pure Internet: NFC
HTML, CSS & minimal JS combined with NFC tech to create serverless web experiences.
Pure Internet
\"Pure internet\" is a playful joke about browser-served content, inspired by 90s simplicity and a desire to make web publishing less complex.
Pure Internet
"Pure internet" is a playful joke about browser-served content, inspired by 90s simplicity and a desire to make web publishing less complex.
Shitposting Towards a Pizza Oven
Automated YouTube Shorts about pizza lead viewers to shouldibuyagozney.com with its one-word answer: \"yes.\" The algorithm grows daily.
Shitposting Towards a Pizza Oven
Automated YouTube Shorts about pizza lead viewers to shouldibuyagozney.com with its one-word answer: "yes." The algorithm grows daily.
Onchain Hit Counter
Blockchain-powered hit counters revive nostalgic web elements by storing visitor counts on Ethereum testnets—a quirky solution making the.
Onchain Hit Counter
Blockchain-powered hit counters revive nostalgic web elements by storing visitor counts on Ethereum testnets—a quirky solution making the.
Revisiting Obsidian as a CMS, again
Obsidian as CMS: Using YAML frontmatter and GitHub's GraphQL API to create a free, flexible publishing system for markdown content that.
Revisiting Obsidian as a CMS, again
Obsidian as CMS: Using YAML frontmatter and GitHub's GraphQL API to create a free, flexible publishing system for markdown content that.
Case Study: Rebuilding Opul on Framer
Comprehensive WordPress to Framer migration completed in two months, boosting conversion rates by 50% while giving Opul's team control over.
Case Study: Rebuilding Opul on Framer
Comprehensive WordPress to Framer migration completed in two months, boosting conversion rates by 50% while giving Opul's team control over.
Revisiting Obsidian as a CMS
A home-built publishing system using Obsidian for writing, GitHub for storage, and Next.
Revisiting Obsidian as a CMS
A home-built publishing system using Obsidian for writing, GitHub for storage, and Next.
Deploy html on Replit
Replit is great but lacks HTML deployment.
Deploy html on Replit
Replit is great but lacks HTML deployment.
Mint thyself
Zora's HTML editions let you mint internet content on blockchain, stored on IPFS for permanence.
Mint thyself
Zora's HTML editions let you mint internet content on blockchain, stored on IPFS for permanence.
The Sovereign Feed
RSS offers decentralized content control in an algorithm-driven web.
The Sovereign Feed
RSS offers decentralized content control in an algorithm-driven web.
Super simple captcha
Implement a simple captcha challenge without dependencies
Custom Composable Methods with Vue 3