Not another Jekyll to Eleventy post

I’m still calling it ‘Eleventy’

Just ten short years ago, I launched a new personal website based on Jekyll. I wanted to move to static site generation, I worked at a Ruby shop, and it was 2016 – made perfect sense! The idea was to make creating content and publishing easier; and judging by my post frequency, we can all see how that went.

I very briefly considered pointing some LLM tool at it and calling it a day, but I wasn’t going to pay for the privilege of calling a project ‘done’ without learning anything.

It was pretty much a lift-and-shift operation. Migrating my templates to Liquid Just Worked™, and duplicating the behaviour of the existing Jekyll setup was fairly straightforward. Here’s the kit I ended up using:

• @11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight
• @gotfeedback/markdown-it-media to shoehorn in the one native video I wanted to add
• eleventy-sass: Using the beta here, so I need to send the --experimental-require-module flag. Nothing an npm script can’t fix.
• markdown-it-anchor

There were a couple little knobs I had to twiddle to maintain post collation behaviour and file structure; but all in all, it went pretty smoothly. Have a squiz at the source on GitHub if you want the full look behind the curtain.