Friday Fave: Build Awesome aka 11ty

I’ve toyed around with a handful of static site generators over the years. Even before the current style of static site generator, I tended to prefer either writing my own static sites by hand or using CMSes that output static pages.The first few versions of my early web sites were simple static HTML files linked by hand. Then, in the early 2000s, I used Greymatter and then Movable Type, which were both hosted applications that built static pages. For a brief period, I went back to hand-rolling HTML by hand. And then I switched to Craft, which is really the only non-static CMS I’ve used for my own sites.When I first heard about Jekyll, I tried it out and almost ended up rebuilding my site with it. I don’t recall now what kept me from doing that. I tried Hugo a few years later, but bounced off because I wasn’t very familiar with Go. I returned to Jekyll about a decade ago when I built a prototype web site for a design system at work. I was really happy with how it turned out and…