The Superbatkiss
Fun with Eleventy images
I’m currently working on two sites that both require handling images in Markdown files. That probably makes you think: “Why write about an official Eleventy plugin?” The issue is that I want to use images in a different opinionated way than the opinionated way the plugin was changed to in 2021.
Read more…Enriching Eleventy data
Almost two years ago I wrote about how I got started with Eleventy. I wrapped up the post by indicating that I’d write a follow-up explaining how I’d combined data with the front matter and content. And… then I forgot about it.
In the time since then, the project I used as an example had partially been moved back to a PHP application since I needed to capture and search data while not behind a computer. How I’d combined the data still turned out to be useful in the other projects I eventually migrated to Eleventy though.
Read more…Now and again, you encounter a song that gives you goosebumps and forces you to listen to it at least ten times in a row. And then maybe just once more.
Between yesterday and today, that was Sheryl Crow’s “Try Not to Remember” from 2006 for me.
Such. A. Good. Song.
Those strings at the end are just chef’s kiss.
Make your day a bit better and give it a whirl: youtube.com/watch?v=it0-H-QGMVE, deezer.com/en/track/104621816 or find it on your streaming service of choice.
Originally published at typo.social/@barrymieny/111828823428559000
Interesting WE ligature at the entrance of Kasteel de Haar in Utrecht.
After I stopped using Delicious Library, I needed something to manage my collectables (music, books, memorabilia, etc). I wanted it online and integrated with platforms like Discogs for music.
Over the past few weeks, I put together the basics in the evenings. Since music is my most extensive collection, first up was syncing with and pulling metadata and images from Discogs. I still need to add uploading custom images, searching, filtering and sorting.
But it works, and it looks good (to me).
I wanted something with more personality than the flat interfaces that are everywhere these days. I feel that this strikes a good balance between a clean UI and something fun to use (just skeuomorphic enough).
Now that the foundations are there, I can add features for the other item types, a dashboard showing how much money I’ve wasted spent and where everything’s from and, down the line, look at refactoring the data structures.
But before doing that, I must load and clean up my collection.
