Today I completed a redesign of Cybercultural, including upgrading to #Eleventy v3.0. Also, my previous blog Web Development History has been folded into Cybercultural. Check it out by clicking on this link (don't worry, you're still allowed to click on links in social media!): https://cybercultural.com/p/redesign-and-wdh-migration/
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Looking for CMS advice
Hey Web devs!
Do you have any suggestions, tips, opinions, dos, don’ts about headless CMSes?
I have a growing list of small/mid non-profits and collectives asking for my help to (re)make their website. I totally want to help, but I don’t have much time, especially considering that they generally have little or no funding—I would most definitely point them to @VillageOneCoop, otherwise.
Therefore, I want a super simple and replicable solution where I can copy-paste most of the code, while providing them with a stable, fast, and modern solution. I had a look at the Headless CMS section in the Jamstack website, but I need opinions from people who actually used some of that software already.
Needs
I want to code and configure everything using @eleventy
Admin interface (#WebApp) for the client to add pages and write posts
Static website in the front-end
Simple and reliable CI/CD
No/minimal maintenance after the first setup
Self-hostable (I was taking this for granted so much that I forgot to write it)
If it requires forge integration, it should support #ForgeJo
#OpenSource
Nice to have
Possibly using #Deno, not #NodeJS
Allowing the client to customize a bit their website through the admin interface, with a GUI
CMS app packaged on @yunohost
No CMS vendor lock-in
I’d love to write as little JavaScript as possible
#FreeSoftware
Absolutely not
Front-end #JavaScript frameworks
Please, boost this and ask around! Links to videos, tutorials, and resources are welcome.
People whose perspective I would really value: @zachleat @harryfk @deno_land @jaredwhite @vanillaweb @stefan @mxbck @WeirdWriter @deadsuperhero (Sorry if I am spamming you!)
#Eleventy #11ty #CMS #HeadlessCMS #Ghost #DecapCMS #CraftCMS #Strapi #Web #WebDev #WebDesign #StaticGen #StaticWebsite #Website #HTML #CSS #YunoHost #SelfHosting #Wordpress
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How Eleventy Survived: Funding, Growth, and Open Source Reality, by @zachleat and @matthewejohnson.bsky.social (@fontawesome):
It was such a pleasure to speak at the #eleventy meetup yesterday!
#Laravel and #11ty make for an interesting combination with loads of flexibility and power.
Find out how I put these two together to implement a strategy I'm calling Incremental Content Management:
https://www.joshvickerson.com/posts/incremental-content-management-with-laravel-and-eleventy/
New #blog post!! I've finally gotten around to updating my beginner guide to #Eleventy! If you're interested in setting up a simple blog with this static site generator, this should have everything to get you started 👇
https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-07-25-Updates-to-the-Eleventy-guide.html
Hey #Eleventy experts, I have metadata in a metadata file that contains my email address. How can Eleventy do HTML Entity Encoding on that email upon building? I am having trouble finding it on the web. #BuildAwesome
#Development #Techniques
Making RSS more human readable · “Owning a website means owning the little connective pieces too.” https://ilo.im/16d5se
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#Readability #RSS #XML #WebFeeds #Content #Websites #Blogs #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Eleventy
Well, shit. Let me know if I should move to BearBlog. I am so, so, tired. The End of Eleventy https://brennan.day/the-end-of-eleventy/ #Eleventy #Blogging #IndieWeb
The amazing thing about SSGs, like #Eleventy, is I can change just one file and it updates all my posts. Remembering the guy that hates tip me links at the bottom of posts, I decided to laugh at him by adding a tip me please link to the end of *all* my posts, like this one. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-dream-of-tomorrow/ #IndieWeb
Link at end but I wasn't sure how/where to report this, but one small #Accessibility change could nake this page a lot easier to understand. Remove the favicon's completely, and just have the hyperlinked title, instead of the URL. This page is incredibly hard to understand as it stands now. I was going to recommend it to a fellow blind person but is there an easier list of Eleventy starters? One with far less clutter? https://www.11ty.dev/docs/starter/ @11ty #Eleventy