Ombogo Jr

Building things and writing down what the building taught me. Static sites, small tools, and the occasional strong opinion.

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Eleventy vs a Hand-Rolled Build

Having built the same small site both ways, once on Eleventy and once on a single hand-rolled script, I want to lay the two side by side honestly. Neither is wrong. They just fail…

Building a Site on Eleventy

I started this site the way I start most things: with a folder and a vague plan. This time the plan was to lean on Eleventy and let it do the boring parts, and I came away happy en…

Building a Site on a Hand-Rolled Build

Before I settled on a generator, I built a version of this site with nothing but a single Node script. No framework, no plugins, just a file called build.mjs. It was a good exercis…