My 11ty experiment has turned into a time travel story

I took another stab at creating an 11ty site, and this time succeeded. Not only that, but I’ve decided to grow the Neocities blog I made into a work of fiction complete with story and character arc. There are many 11ty tutorials, but the one that caught my eye was this one from Flamed Fury: Create A Static Site Using 11ty & Deploy to Neocities (2026 Refresh) Along with some help from Claude and a few other tutorials, I got the site up and running on Neocities. It’s pretty close to the way I want it, but there will likely be more tinkering. The design, for example, is still not far off from the one in the tutorial. Would I recommend 11ty? If you’re into coding and don’t mind a challenge, I would say it’s worth a look. I think WordPress gave databases a bad reputation in terms of security, so the flat file system in static site generators has been gaining popularity. On the other hand, PHP/MySQL alternatives to WordPress do exist. I’ve been using Textpattern for 20 years without any…