Adding My Latest CodePens to My Blog

I've been a fan of CodePen for many, many years, and it's one of the few services I spend money on to help support. A few months back, they released an entirely new version that dramatically improved the service (CodePen 2.0) and it just made me more happy I was a supporter. Just a few days ago they announced more changes including a full API. I thought it would be fun to add a display of my recent pens. Yes, I thought that would be fun, because that's the kind of nerd I am. Adding Dynamic Content to a SSG It has been a very long time since I blogged about anything related to static site generators. There's no particular reason for that, but I figure this is a good time to bring up the topic again, specifically about how static sites can include dynamic content. There's two main paths to this. The first is getting content at build time. For Eleventy, this is done with data files that are executed at build time and can return ad hoc data for use in your templates. As an example of…