I'm not religious, but I occasionally think that for some people, their purpose in life is to be a cautionary tale, and that makes me sad.

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Is this a comment about Russia or a comment about drinking in general?

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Pagination in Eleventy is bit strange. Out of the box, Eleventy comes with support for something the developers call "pagination", but it might not be the sort of pagination you're used to.

As you probably already know, Eleventy is a static site generator. It generates output HTML files from input template files. In the simplest case, one HTML file is generated for each (non-layout) input template.

The feature known as pagination in Eleventy is basically a way of getting around that limitation, allowing you to generate multiple output files from one template file. If you squint, you can see how this maps to the traditional idea of pagination (i.e. we want to break down a long list of items into smaller sized pages, writing only one template for the page) and although this is, indeed, a common way to use pagination in Eleventy, it turns out that the feature is much more generic than you might think - and, paradoxically, less useful than you might think.

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After some consideration I've decided to remove the articles from my "Posts" feed and rename it to "Notes". It now contains just my notes and photos (and videos if I ever start posting those). As before, my articles are available in my "Blog" feed.

Initially, my reason for mixing articles, notes and photos into one "posts" feed was that I suspected at least some of my readers would want a feed just for "original content", and the "posts" feed provided that. I still think this is true, but some other insights have led me to reconsider the approach.

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Evelyn calls him "Laser Jesus"

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Up until around 20 years ago, I had moved about 10 times. But I've only moved twice since then, corresponding to when I left home. I'm pretty lazy but nature.

Recent interactions on Twitter have led me to clarify the purpose of all my feeds with descriptions, so hopefully people will have a better idea of what they are in for :-)

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I'm trying something new :-) There's currently no way to see just my notes or photos. You can see my notes+blog+photos (i.e. what I call my "Posts") or just my blog. I may change this if more people complain ;-) Usually the two feeds diverge more because I don't blog so much

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In my case, I send the webmention automatically and then immediately parse out the Location header from the response, and commit that as my syndication link, which triggers another recompile.

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Right, so you would have to include an empty link to Bridgy's twitter publish URL somewhere in your h-entry. Then you need to send a webmention to that URL (unless it's automatic).

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I use Bridgy to syndicate the post after I publish it (by automatically sending a webmention), and then I re-compile the site with the syndicated location embedded in the post.

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@nhoizey For more info on why I organize my posts the way I do, see https://desmondrivet.com/2022/02/27/post-type-org

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@nhoizey All of my post related templates (for the tag, archive, bookmark, blog pages, etc.) are directly under post/, but the posts themselves are tucked under posts/feed. @eleven_ty can sometimes blur the line between content and presentation.

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@nhoizey I was thinking, perhaps naively, that someone who is interested in my notes would also interested in my blog (and my photos), hence the combined feed. The reverse may not be true; someone who is interested in my blog may not want my notes, hence the isolated blog feed.

As mentioned previously, I recently converted my website over to Eleventy. I'm an IndieWeb participant and, moreover, my website is fairly complex so I ended up writing (or, in some cases, pilfering) a fair amount of code to make it all work together in an acceptable manner. I thought I would document the process via a series of blog posts in case anyone else finds it of value.

None of this is intended to be an Eleventy tutorial and you'll get the most from these posts if you already know something about how Eleventy works.

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After roughly five years, I've finally decided to switch my blog over from Pelican to Eleventy. I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't at least partially swayed by the fact that all the cool kids seemed to be doing it but, with that in mind, I do have some (hopefully) legitimate reasons for making the switch.

Pelican bills itself as a static site generator, and so it is, but one that focuses more on traditional, single user blogs. Pelican can, of course, be used as a CMS, and you can certainly use it to create arbitrary, standalone pages and websites, but the features in support of this usage seem more bolted on than organic. There are certain assumptions built into Pelican that stem from its original purpose as a blogging engine that are occasionally irritating to circumvent.

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Like many Indieweb participants, I post bookmarks, likes and reposts to my website.

From a technical standpoint, there's virtually no difference between these kinds of posts; they're all permalinked h-entries which house another, usually external, URL and which often contain no other content beyond that link. They differ solely in the microformat which annotates the link, indicating the intent of the post.

And intent make all the difference here. A like is supposed to convey that the author actually enjoys or appreciates the content to which the post is linking. A repost is supposed to convey that the author wishes, for some reason, to share that content on their own feed. A bookmark is supposed to convey that the author...ugh...err...

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