I wrote up a little post talking about my artfight prep this year :3
Yesterday I wrote about my tendency to procrastinate.
Today I finally returned to webweaving since March
https://your-local-grubdog.neocities.org/blog/posts/2026/26-06-21/
The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include a thespian feline, analog ASCII art and a directory of sites that have that Old Web feel. I checked out a new coffee place and Iām leaving Roku and going back to a media PC. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
I canāt say Iām surprised that ASCII art as a concept is centuries old.
Over the weekend, I challenged myself to learn my way around Eleventy and build the skeleton of my new personal website.
Iām not quite there yet, but Iām happy with the experience. I blogged about it, starting with this post.
hereās me talking about getting into photography again
hereās a place you can see me getting into photography again
Fantastic series of posts! Iām glad you found my recent post.
You raise a number of questions on Building an Eleventy Site Skeleton: Day 1 Report Ā· Key and Card that I never touch upon, and most likely wonāt. Iām inclined to add a section of resources for further learning on the post for people to continue to the journey.
On this post Building an Eleventy Site Skeleton: Day 2 Report Ā· Key and Card
So even if I were copying things over wholesale, that is explicitly permitted. And Iām not, Iām doing what amateur web designers and hackers have always done, which is to learn by reading and remixing.
This is definitely the way I got going with 11ty, picking parts from here and there and ultimately making it work.
Maybe a post on further learning is in order to answer some of those questions
Thanks for the note, and for the tutorial! My questions in the Day 2 post were not directed at you; I think itās perfectly reasonable that beginner-focused resources wouldnāt address them. Even without that information, your post was super helpful.
This weekās tiara post: Turquoise Oak Leaves and Acorns.
hey, me mention! 
I am glad you are not using my 11ty starter because it is not very good in my opinion, lol.
I did a much better job with IndiePaper, though thatās in Hugo, not 11ty.
Iāve also been thinking of making a theme out of brennan.day, as I havenāt done that yet, but I update it so often that it would quickly become outdated and Iād have to do a lot of maintenance.
Also absolutely, I am an advocate for people outright stealing my work, I donāt give a fuck. But the AGPL license means you have to license your own work AGPL too, thatās copyleft!
Reading about everyone learning 11ty made me realize how fortunate I was in my learning
I started off with handrolling everything, and after the second or third time screwing something up by copy and pasting the wrong thing opted to build my own SSG from scratch in Python (at this point I was not aware that SSGs were something you could just download and use)
So going to a proper SSG from my Python mess was quite refreshing all things considered haha
I donāt know which bloggers here use git for managing their blog, but Iāve written a little post about trying to make that more oriented for writing.
Time for a long, self-indulgent blog post where I ramble on about a favourite album of mine released during each year that Iāve been alive.
I have undertaken an investigation into the unsubscribe flow of Samsung marketing emails - it isā¦long
Plot twist: Itās a false positive; the āfew emailsā will continue after the fact, and theyāre banking on your exhaustion at the process being perceived as not worth it enough to try again.