writing here and there

Lately I’ve felt this desire to change again. I’ve really enjoyed making my 11ty blog. I learned a deal about extending things. Particularly a thing I’ve found interesting and challenging is making collections. It has seemed like a core part of 11ty so making my notes show up, giving them their own RSS feed, applying some basic rules to their design, and then every so often publishing a note whether it’s a YouTube embed or an image using shortcodes has been very enjoyable. And challenging. What I’ve found though is I seem to need change. I get wanting a different way of doing things and I have to admit it is something I really enjoy doing. Right now publishing to the blog requires some interaction with GitHub and vercel. Neither are particularly difficult but I have made errors primarily with image names and frontmatter things. One causes the image to just not show up. The second causes failed builds. To get around the second I created a few apple shortcuts that help me create a new…