A small blog that answers questions about itself.
These are notes on running a personal site with a static generator: why it is worth it, how the writing gets from a text file to the web, and how to keep the site quick and easy to find.
This site is the Eleventy AI starter. Every build writes an llms.txt and an llms-full.txt, and the Ask button at the top answers from them. Try "How do I publish a draft?"
Recent writing
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Keeping a small site fast and easy to find
Page weight budgets, fonts, feeds, sitemaps and llms.txt. The short list of things that keep a static blog quick and discoverable.
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Writing in Markdown, publishing with git
How a post goes from a text file to the live site, including drafts, images, and fixing a typo from a phone.
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Why I moved my blog to a static site
A database-backed blog cost me money, time and two security scares. A folder of HTML files costs nothing and has not broken once.