Coding
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Beyond the Black Box
How Markdown's marked extension API turned five verbose YAML sections into one clean component — and why I never noticed the capability was there all along.
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From Metalsmith to Eleventy - SEO Without External Dependencies
Implementing SEO for a bilingual Eleventy site using templates instead of plugins—covering meta tags, Open Graph, hreflang, JSON-LD structured data, and sitemaps.
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From Metalsmith to Eleventy - Building a Bilingual Site
Implementing a full English-German bilingual site with Eleventy, covering directory structure, language-aware navigation, breadcrumbs, a language switcher, and per-language collections.
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From Metalsmith to Eleventy - Porting an Actual Site
The practical experience of migrating an art website from Metalsmith to Eleventy, including navigation issues, data access patterns, and what the fixes revealed about platform assumptions.
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From Metalsmith to Eleventy - The Accidental Abstraction
How a Metalsmith component library turned out to be a platform-agnostic Nunjucks library, and why the components ported to Eleventy without a single template change.
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From Metalsmith to Eleventy - A Natural Progression
Why I moved from Metalsmith to Eleventy for my art website, what carried over, and why the skills and mental models transfer between static site generators.
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Scheduled Publishing for Static Sites
How to implement scheduled content publishing for static sites using date-based filtering and automated daily builds with GitHub Actions and Netlify.
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Metalsmith Redux - The Next Chapter
From blog series to living infrastructure. The Metalsmith Component Library has grown, and we're building a SKILL that lets Claude guide beginners through creating real websites.
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Building Advanced Search for Metalsmith
Existing search plugins for Metalsmith are ancient—most are effectively abandoned. This new metalsmith plugin uses Fuse.js as the foundation
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Metalsmith Redux: Conclusion
Metalsmith Redux began with a simple premise: amid framework overload, reintroduce Metalsmith as an example of stability and simplicity in an ecosystem obsessed with complexity.