Improving My Eleventy Now Page

💭 Yeah, yeah I know. Meta-blogging is over-done but I'm gonna talk about it anyway 😁 Initial Design When I originally built my /now page, I didn't put a whole ton of thought into how I wanted to structure it in the long-run. To just have a semi-nice list of things displayed was the main goal, with data organization being an after thought. With 11ty supporting JSON data files, I figured this would be a good format to structure my data with so I could template it into a page. For the initial page this worked fine, but I ran into some key issues as the dataset grew: No Multi-Line/ HTML Text JSON doesn't (natively) support a way to have multi-line text, making editing longer sections really annoying. Even with line wraps on, you still had to add manual line breaks if you want visual space. If I wanted to use HTML to spice things up a single line was all I got, making editing and proofreading a nightmare. 😱 No Spell-Check With English being my native language, I can spell pretty well in…

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