Eleventy NewsNews and updates about the Eleventy project, a simpler static site generator.2020-08-11T00:00:00-00:00https://www.11ty.dev/Zach Leathermanzach@zachleat.comMIT’s new Digital Humanities site launches using Eleventy!2020-08-11T00:00:00-00:00https://www.11ty.dev/news/mit/<p>In another new exciting launch, we’ve learned that MIT’s new Digital Humanities site was built using Eleventy!</p>
<p>You can see an interview about the new site on <a href="https://www.sanity.io/blog/community-digest-summer-edition-part-1#the-new-mit-digital-humanities-website-a6af0b533b78">Sanity’s Community Spotlight</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/brob">Bryan Robinson</a>:</p>
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<p>Awesome work by <a href="https://selfaware.studio/">Mike Wagz and the Self Aware crew</a>.</p>
Join our Discord Server!2020-08-10T00:00:00-00:00https://www.11ty.dev/news/discord/<p>It has been long requested that we create a space for the Eleventy Community to gather and hang out. A welcoming space for beginners to Eleventy to ask questions without some of the intimidation that might accompany opening a GitHub issue.</p>
<p>Wait no longer. We have created a Discord server! Join us with this special invite code: <a href="https://discord.gg/GBkBy9u">discord.gg/GBkBy9u</a></p>
How do I get an Eleventy Sticker?2020-02-05T00:00:00-00:00https://www.11ty.dev/news/stickers/<p>In order to minimize administrative overhead, to receive an Eleventy sticker you must find someone with Eleventy stickers and ask for one. Verbally. In person. They are not distributed on conference sticker tables. They are not mailed. They are not shipped. They travel only by sneakernet.</p>
<p>Our current list of Eleventy Sticker Ambassadors includes:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://zachleat.com/"><picture><source srcset="https://www.11ty.dev/img/avatars/twitter/3ec33db1-90.webp 90w" type="image/webp"><img src="https://www.11ty.dev/img/avatars/twitter/3ec33db1-90.jpeg" alt="zachleat’s twitter avatar" loading="lazy" class="avatar"></picture>Zach Leatherman</a> (👋🏻 hi)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.matuzo.at/"><picture><source srcset="https://www.11ty.dev/img/avatars/twitter/9f5c36a8-90.webp 90w" type="image/webp"><img src="https://www.11ty.dev/img/avatars/twitter/9f5c36a8-90.jpeg" alt="mmatuzo’s twitter avatar" loading="lazy" class="avatar"></picture>Manuel Matuzović</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This list of Sticker Ambassadors may expand as time goes on. You will need to find out which meetups/conferences/events our Sticker Ambassadors are going to, attend those events, and <em>talk to them</em>! As an introvert, I know this is terrible (sorry).</p>
An Homage to the James Williamson Possum Balloon2019-12-19T00:00:00-00:00https://www.11ty.dev/news/logo-homage/<p>As many of you may know, <a href="https://www.11ty.dev/news/james-williamson/">James Williamson</a> first came up with <em>animal suspended from the floating red balloon</em> logo for the Eleventy project in May of 2018.</p>
<p>It was <a href="https://twitter.com/jameswillweb/status/999052022497316865">originally a cat</a>!</p>
<p>James’ <a href="https://twitter.com/jameswillweb/status/999059541798072320">quickly iterated to the now-iconic Eleventy possum</a>.</p>
<img src="https://www.11ty.dev/img/possum.jpg" alt="James Williamson’s classic Eleventy possum" style="max-width: 12em">
<p>Why a possum? Why is the possum floating? Why a balloon? Exactly. <em>42.</em></p>
<p>To honor James, I thought it might be nice to commission a professional interpretation of his original vision. After <a href="https://twitter.com/eleven_ty/status/1206687578382049284">Ethan Marcotte shared some possum content from Phineas X. Jones</a>, I knew we had the artist to make this a reality.</p>
<p>Literally three days later, I am proud to show you all something that I hope James would have really enjoyed.</p>
<img src="https://www.11ty.dev/img/possum-balloon-original.png" alt="James Williamson’s vision reimagined by Phineas X. Jones.">
<p>You can see more of Phineas’ work on <a href="http://octophant.us/">octophant.us</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pxj_work/">Instagram</a>, or <a href="https://twitter.com/Phineas/status/1128348644854382592">Twitter</a>.</p>
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<p>We also maintain a <a href="https://twitter.com/i/events/1202470199179563008">Twitter Moment of community contributed logos</a>.</p>
A special note of remembrance for James Williamson2019-12-18T00:00:00-00:00https://www.11ty.dev/news/james-williamson/<p>I just want to take a brief moment to remember the very special <a href="https://twitter.com/jameswillweb/">James Williamson</a> who <a href="https://twitter.com/justinseeley/status/1201964060658585600">passed away earlier this month</a>. James was <a href="http://simpleprimate.com/blog/long-goodbye">diagnosed with ALS in 2013</a> and was known for his widespread teaching contributions to the web community. Probably the least of which, but one that I will always remember, was his creation of the floating possum mascot for our little Eleventy project. This mascot (nay, mastcot, because it lives in the masthead ok fine but James would have liked that one) lives at the top of the Eleventy docs and links to the <a href="https://twitter.com/jameswillweb/status/999052022497316865">Twitter thread he started in 2018</a>. Though we never met in real life, James was clearly a one-of-a-kind. We will miss you ❤️</p>
<p>Donations may be made in James’ name to <a href="https://www.als.net/">The ALS Therapy Development Institute</a> or to <a href="http://stjohnsrh.org/">Quest Youth Ministries at St. John's United Methodist Church</a>.</p>
Eleventy Docs Moved from 11ty.io to 11ty.dev2019-12-05T00:00:00-00:00https://www.11ty.dev/news/moving-house/<p>The Eleventy project is deprecating the 11ty.io domain and moving to 11ty.dev. 11ty.dev now has feature parity and the 11ty.io DNS will begin redirecting to 11ty.dev as soon as your DNS updates.</p>
<p>A couple of wrinkles here:</p>
<ul>
<li>We switched DNS providers to enable proper forwarding behavior here (including all prior versions of docs on subdomains). This may result in some temporary downtime for 11ty.io URLs, but they will begin forwarding correctly in a matter of time. Sorry for this!</li>
<li>Eleventy Contributor Accounts need to be migrated to 11ty.dev. This means you’ll need to set a new password for your account. Check your email for new invite links.</li>
</ul>
<p>This was no small thing! (But it wasn’t too terrible either). We migrated:</p>
<ul>
<li>All <a href="https://www.11ty.dev/docs/versions/">versioned documentation subdomains (×15)</a> (e.g. the <a href="https://v0-5-3.11ty.dev/docs/">Eleventy v0.5.3 documentation</a>)</li>
<li>Netlify custom features (Analytics) and for Contributor Accounts: Identity and Serverless Functions for auth.</li>
<li>Web Hooks to run the docs build every day to update avatars and footer stats.</li>
<li>GitHub repo renamed to a more generic <a href="https://github.com/11ty/11ty-website/"><code>11ty/11ty-website</code></a> (GitHub handles the redirects here)</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="why">Why? <a class="direct-link" href="#why">#</a></h2>
<p>This has been on the agenda for about six months. <a href="https://twitter.com/TatianaTMac/"><picture><source srcset="https://www.11ty.dev/img/avatars/twitter/a35afca0-90.webp 90w" type="image/webp"><img src="https://www.11ty.dev/img/avatars/twitter/a35afca0-90.jpeg" alt="tatianatmac’s twitter avatar" loading="lazy" class="avatar"></picture>Tatiana Mac</a> said it better:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">ICYMI: .io domains benefit the British government and not the Chagossian and Ilois people that they should, whom the Brits expelled from their island home.<br><br>So, migrating off of .io domains is one way to exhibit solidarity. <br><br>Read more: <a href="https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/">https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/eleven_ty/status/1202457672756404224">twitter.com/eleven_ty/status/…4224</a></p>— Tatiana Mac (@TatianaTMac) <a href="https://twitter.com/TatianaTMac/status/1202467104722571264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
<p>Some <a href="https://twitter.com/TatianaTMac/status/1202467104">good discussion on Tatiana’s tweet about this</a> as well.</p>
<h2 id="cool-uris-dont-change">Cool URIs Don’t Change <a class="direct-link" href="#cool-uris-dont-change">#</a></h2>
<p>A number of you lovely people 🧐 have pointed out that our documentation prominently links to the classic W3C slogan “<a href="https://www.11ty.dev/docs/permalinks/#cool-uris-dont-change">Cool URIs don’t change</a>.” While it may be tempting to latch onto the dictionary definition of <em>change</em>, the spirit of this idea still holds true! Published URLs are a maintenance task and our prior URLs are still being actively maintained with redirects.</p>
<h2 id="a-small-step-in-the-right-direction">A small step in the right direction <a class="direct-link" href="#a-small-step-in-the-right-direction">#</a></h2>
<p>This may be a purely symbolic gesture for now as we do plan to keep the <code>.io</code> redirects in place for awhile. But having our canonical domain off of the <code>.io</code> TLD is an important gesture to make and creates space to retire <code>.io</code> completely at some point in the future. Appreciate your patience with this transition.</p>