Creating a Digital Garden in 11ty: Tracking My Daily Word Count with URLminder

Continuing where I left off yesterday writing about Beeminder, I realized that there were a couple goals/systems that I needed to modify due to how various integration options and API have changed. I used to have a goal named /github which would track my commits across all my repositories on GitHub. But GitHub's API changed, and so now you can only track the commits of one repository at a time. Beyond this, most of my active and maintained projects are now on other platforms like GitLab and Source.tube due to my grievances with GitHub. (An aside: I deleted most of my corporate social media, but I maintain a GitHub for my professional career, which is currently non-existent, lol.) Anyways, I decided to use this as a good excuse to build an experiment that's been on my mind for awhile: a dedicated, low-friction place to dump my day-to-day small stuff which doesn't really belong on Brennan.day. Quotes, bookmarks, half-formed notes, a diary line, a code snippet worth remembering. I want…