Northern Badger 11ty Blog

My blog powered by 11ty. Its a work in progress since I've not really updated it for 4 years.

Tech Stack

• 11ty - static site generator and the backbone behind the site
• Handlebars - templating language
• SCSS - styling
• Markdown, Markdown It & Front Matters - content
• Utterances - comments on blog posts stored as GitHub issues
• Netlify - hosting
• GitHub Codespaces - virtual dev environment. I now only develop this site in the cloud

Roadmap

• [ ] Improve a11y for article.hbs for date. Right now it'll be read out weird for ATs
• [ ] Convert tag Becoming a better manager to be stored as slugified version becoming-a-better-manager
• [ ] Stop using pubdate Frontmatter prop and create an 11ty filter
• [ ] Move todos to Github issues
• [ ] Link blog posts with a next and previous at the bottom
• [ ] Create a way to filter blog posts by tag
• [ ] Get inline CSS working again
• [ ] Create roadmap page that is powered by GitHub issues
• [ ] Template abbreviations into a component (see becoming-a-better-manager-reflecting-on-my-leadership-journey.md)
• [ ] Write blog post on adding Utterances to the blog
• [ ] Write blog post on draft posts in 11ty
• [ ] Write blog post on my handrolled meta/OG data
• [ ] Write blog post on three lessons as a manager
• [ ] The power of pairing as a software engineering manager

Done

• [x] Publish blog post on new blog series
• [x] Make repo public
• [x] Add google simple analytics
• [x] Sort out post meta & OG data
• [x] Updating links to be light blue rather than red for underline as looks like spelling mistake - see stash update links to be blue rather than red
• [x] Add abbreviations to markdown articles
• [x] Add anchor links for blog post headings - markdown-it-anchor - https://11ty.rocks/eleventyjs/slugs-anchors/
• [x] Prep LinkedIn post to share it
• [x] Write blog post on my journey as a line manager
• [x] Write blog post on advise monster
• [x] Creating simple template for posts
• [x] Write blog post on upgrading blog
• [x] Find a way to include expert & featured img in layout-post template to prevent duplication
• [x] Write blog post on ditching GA for Simple Analytics
• [x] Write blog post on three mistakes as a manager
• [x] Write blog post on how I use AI to help me blog

Cancelled

• [ ] Share a counter on the readme and install manager article about how im getting on with my 10 blog posts