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The modern web sucks. My band's website doesn't.

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  • description: My band has a website. I made it using 1990s technology. And 2K20s technology. And I think it's pretty nice. In today's episode, I'll cover the @EleventyVideo static site generator, and how I adapted a design made on vintage hardware (using AOLPress on Windows 95!) to a modern workflow. Important links mentioned in the video: 🎸 The band's website: https://www.thestopbits.net 🎈 Eleventy (or 11ty as the cool kids call it): https://www.11ty.dev/ ▶️ Eleventy base blog starter template: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-base-blog 🎉 Sophia Brandt wrote up a helpful article about deploying to GitHub Pages with Eleventy: https://www.rockyourcode.com/how-to-deploy-eleventy-to-github-pages-with-github-actions/ 🖥️ Homestar Runner's "Back to a Website" toon (which may have inspired this video): https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite ⌨️ Source for the band's website: https://codeberg.org/vkc/thestopbits-dot-net And if you want to help me make more unsponsored videos like this one: 🅿️ https://patreon.com/VeronicaExplains ☕ https://ko-fi.com/VeronicaExplains Chapters: 0:00 I say "greetings" and explain why I like static sites 2:41 What is a static site generator anyway? 4:13 About my website (thestopbits.net) 6:01 Modding the Eleventy template 9:14 Adding posts to Eleventy 10:04 I talk too long about the modern web #linux #webdevelopment #homelab
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