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FYI - Switched Site to Eleventy

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Just a quick “heads up” post… Last night, I switched my website to a new version that is generated by Eleventy instead of Hugo. So, if things look a little “off” compared to before (fonts, spacing, navigation), or if I inadvertently broke the RSS feeds…that’s why. (Sorry!)

Additionally, while working on the conversion, I decided to switch my web-server from trusty old Nginx to Caddy.

I won’t go into the detailed reasoning behind the switches, but the short version is I’ve been wanting to experiment and play around more with my website - but I often found myself fighting with Hugo. By contrast, Eleventy felt more like a “build from the ground up” system, which better aligns with what I’m aiming for right now.

As far as the Caddy switch, I really don’t need the power of Nginx for this minimal site. I explored alternatives and thought Caddy seemed like a good match. I like the simplicity managing everything with a single Caddyfile for configuration. So, I’m trying it out.

I might publish more detailed posts about the switch in the future, but I wanted to at least get this one out quick in case I did break anything, or people noticed that things look… worse different.

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