Got Them Little Side Projects Moved to CodePen Hosting

I had my little Smashburgers in Bend website on Astro on Cloudflare Pages. While I 💜 both of those things, CodePen hosting is more than capable, and that’s obviously extremely fun and satisfying for me. I had the Smashburgers site on Astro way back when because they supported multi-page view transitions in a really nice way, polyfilling it in browsers that didn’t have it yet. But time has moved on, and I consider it a progressive enhancement anyway, so the Pen now just uses native multi-page view transitions and falls back to nothing. This means just static HTML pages! The Pen doesn’t use any non-default Blocks at all. I also moved my Breakfast Burritos in Bend website over to CodePen. This one needs some kind of build process (as I envision it), because each burrito is a Markdown file. That’s just a nice way to work on this sort of thing. All the Markdown files are templated and smashed together to build the site. Eleventy absolutely rules at this — it’s the perfect tech for the job.…

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