js date – wtf?!
I took a JavaScript date quiz yesterday, getting only 9 of 28 questions correct.
Eleventy Footnotes Plugin
I made a small eleventy plugin to help add footnotes to webpages on this site.
11ty Shortcodes and Nunjucks
While writing validation code for an 11ty shortcode, I discovered something odd: if you add a shortcode with no parameter to a nunjucks template, the engine modifies the call, adding a parameter set to an empty string.
11ty addTemplate
If you want to use virtual templates in an eleventy project, you have to use eleventy 3 or greater. But note that the feature landed -- officially, at any rate -- in 3.0 beta. In other words, 3.0 alpha is not necessarily good enough, as I learned today.
Apple Tree
Nasturtium Flower
CSS Naked Day
Viewing this site on March 9? It's not broken. The plain look is, if you'll pardon the pun, by design. I'm taking part in Naked CSS Day.
Fava Bean Plants
Weeping Forsythia
Quince Tree
Plum Tree
Microformats in Front Matter: Part 2
In a recent article, I explained how I categorize my posts using microformats vocabulary names in front matter. In this followup, I'll demonstrate using front matter for microformats properties.
Microformats in Front Matter
This article demonstrates using microformats terms in front matter, which I started doing in order to self-document my website's codebase.
Great Blue Heron
Gulls
Denver Sunset
Snowing
Jack-o'-lanterns
Tomatoes
Beets
