Series: Building This Blog
A build log of rdjarbeng.com: starting on Jekyll and GitHub Pages, adding a CMS, automating uploads with a Telegram bot, and moving to Eleventy.
7 parts, best read in order.
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Part 1
Dr Jekyll & Ruby -building Richard's personal website
This post is about my developer experience building my personal website with ruby, jekyll and GitHub pages, opinions are mine and mine alone. When I decided to build👨🏽💻 my personal...
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Part 2
My Experience with SveltiaCMS: A Game-Changer for Website Management
TL;DR : SveltiaCMS continues to evolve, delivering essential features that make content management a breeze. In my previous post about navigating what I called CMS hell , I shared how...
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Part 3
Escaping CMS hell-DecapCMS, Netlify and Sveltia
Add a CMS to a jekyll GitHub-pages website Story time: When I created this website I used to create and edit the posts in visual studio code directly with the...
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Part 4
100 Posts Later: My Lessons Learnt From Building This Blog (rdjarbeng.com)
Changes Since the Start Reaching the milestone of 100 website posts is a moment for reflection. What started as a simple platform to share thoughts has grown into a comprehensive...
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Part 5
Building a Telegram Bot for Easy Media Uploads to My Blog
In my 100 Posts Later reflection and my article on SveltiaCMS escaping CMS hell, I talked about how I shifted away from a code editor (like VS Code) for managing...
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Part 6
Building a Modern Blog with Eleventy 3.x (Liquid Edition)
This is a complete, hands-on guide to building a real blog with Eleventy (also called 11ty), a static site generator: a tool that takes plain files, Markdown posts, HTML templates,...
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Part 7
Sveltia CMS is feature complete. Time to switch from Decap CMS
If you run a static site on Decap CMS (formerly Netlify CMS), Sveltia CMS created by Kyoshino has reached a decisive milestone. Several projects I maintain are handed over to...