Hidde de Vries (@hdv) works in Sanity.io's developer relations team from Rotterdam (NL), is a conference speaker and workshop teacher. Previously he was at the W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and various other organisations and businesses. Buy me a coffee Follow @hdv on Twitter

Jan 3, 2021, 7:00 PM -05:00

How I turned my Goodreads data into a self-hosted website with Eleventy

In the last week of 2020, I decided to export my Goodreads data to display it on my personal website. This post is about what I did and how. Screenshot Why export? First, I quite like Goodreads. It lets me see the reads of friends and acquaintances. It lets me share my own. This is all splendid, but it is still somebody else’s site. Somebody with very different life goals from my own, in fact. For more control on what I display and how, I decided to create a new section of this website ded...