personal-website 2021

This is the source of chadxz.dev, the personal blog of Chad McElligott.

details

• 11ty static site generator
• tailwind css
• postcss build tool
• buttondown.email mailing list
• deployed to Netlify

For more details, see the blog post.

development

To get started with development:

• install Node.js. I recommend using proto
• install the npm packages. npm install
• start the dev server. npm start
• open your browser to the link printed on the console.

When you are editing the markdown files or the style.css, it will automatically reload the browser.

deployment

Deployment is wired up to Netlify. New commits to the main branch will automatically deploy to chadxz.dev.

writing new posts

New posts are stored in src/posts. Drop a new file there with the format YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md where slug would be a short name for the article. See other blog posts for examples of the "front matter" 11ty uses to create things like the filename for the generated html page, tags, publish date, etc.