This is the new home for my personal website. Using 11ty, I've converted my old website and added a blog section to it! Huge thanks to Jon Keeping and his blog post on creating a blog with Eleventy!
I enjoy learning new tech and discovering if I like the new way of doing things. Other than little content fixes, I haven't updated my personal site in years! I suppose it felt like time to do an overhaul and pick up some more skills in the process. I also wanted to add a blog so that I can spend more time writing my thoughts/notes in a way that can be beneficial to other people.
I definitely wanted to write my new site as a static site, regardless of which technology used. I've heard nothing but good things about Gatsby, but it seemed overkill for my needs. I've had some experience with Jekyll through GitHub Pages, so I wanted to try something different. However 11ty claims to be a "simpler static site generator". Since my main goal was to overhaul my old site and add a blog to it, this "simpler" way of doing that was appealing to me. So far 11ty has lived up to that claim, in my opinion!