Build Awesome (11ty)

My static @11ty.dev website is looking pretty fantastic right about now......

Continuing our series “How … works”. With today @11ty.dev! This post walks through its build pipeline, from config to the files written to disk. spinalcms.com/blog/how-11t...

EVERYBODY LOVES MAINTENANCE Core v3.1.7 is out now: https://github.com/11ty/buildawesome/releases/tag/v3.1.7 🚨 Erases our npm audit balance 🧱 Eliminates 21 third party dependencies (121 to 100) 🍤 -8.1% size on disk (22.3 MB to 20.5 MB)

Site is ready for pre launch. Made with #fontawesome , @fontawesome.com #webawesome , @11ty.dev Free 3D Video in any format or quality of your last outdoor activities. No account, online, privacy first #LGS1920Studio

Another site in the Awesome-verse! ✨ lgs1920.fr/registration/ is #BuiltAwesome with Font Awesome, Web Awesome, and Build Awesome by Christian Denat.

After all these years, still rocking my 11Tee at conferences ;) Keep building for the web, folks. @11ty.dev @zachleat.com

11ty Bundle Issue 96 @11ty.dev

Okay, y'all, I'm looking for fun, interesting and whimsy sites y'all go to or make. Here's mine: splitti.online

New Blog Post: Securing 11ty with Deno benad.me/blog/2026/09...

The more expensive everything gets, the more joy I take in rescuing or repairing stuff I already own. A recent example: tylersticka.com/journal/repu... #linux #mac #upcycling

Eleventy Notes now supports Obsidian's new colored highlight syntax `==🔵blue==` ➡️ eleventy-notes.sandroroth.com/n/notes/writ...

Yesterday I started out compiling lore in Obsidian. Then I got distracted, and ended up using @11ty.dev to build a whole website. So now Synist has a (SFW) wiki called The Synistverse. And it's only going to get bigger as I go. synistverse.com

I am setting a project to use your cem-generator inside an @11ty.dev site to generate documentation. I hope I can give you a more informed feedback about this soon :)

11ty Bundle Issue 95 @11ty.dev

*slaps roof of backpack*

On a scale from zero to “I design my own backpack with its code in it”, how much do you like @11ty.dev?

🔗 New #link: Eleventy Baseline An Eleveny Swiss army knife that makes the structural decisions that Eleventy leaves open: directory layout, asset pipeline, image handling, SEO, sitemaps. https://www.eleventy-baseline.dev

Today's Speedlify #BuiltAwesome Perfect Site of the Day belongs to front-end developer @bnijenhuis.nl 🏆 https://bnijenhuis.nl/ https://www.speedlify.dev/site/bnijenhuis-nl/

I made a tool for migrating Tumblr blogs to @11ty.dev static sites, since one didn't seem to exist! It retrieves all your posts with all attached metadata, using a Tumblr blog export ZIP and the Tumblr API, and saves them in a new directory structure with Eleventy's data format.

11ty Bundle Issue 94 @11ty.dev

https://loveandpickpockets.com/ is #BuiltAwesome by @gbeason.bsky.social 🏆

Yes you can use comicfury but you NEED to have your own website to keep a backup just in case. You should be in control of your comic. Here is rarebit, a basic webcomic template: rarebit.neocities.org If you're confident with 11ty, here's rarebit if it were better: github.com/katedee/elev...

Tiny adventures in 11ty syntax highlighting, featuring @davatron5000.bsky.social's excellent MicroLighter web component: infrequently.org/2026/09/micr...

DRY question for @11ty.dev elopers: What is one feature, helper, or filter you would offload from your custom project to a reusable community plugin? #11ty #11tyBuildAwesome #BuildAwesome

https://castastrophe.blog/ is #BuiltAwesome by @castastrophe.bsky.social

Perfect scoring website of the day on Speedlify from Alan Quirk #BuiltAwesome https://www.speedlify.dev/site/www-alanquirk-com/ https://www.alanquirk.com/

Finished my implementation 🥳 Syntax highlighting (& line numbers + copy button) via MicroLighter from @davatron5000.bsky.social and inspiration for the torn tab from @tylersticka.com website. An 11ty transform to process any code blocks & add the lil washi tape thing - So my markdown stays clean ☺️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53kc2QjGxnY is a great video from Veronica about creating a Podcasting Platform using static websites and the magical powers of 🪄 RSS!

The personal project I'm most proud of is ZeroPoint Components. I needed reusable HTML "blocks" for @11ty.dev because that's how designers think. Maybe you need that too. Happy Friday. github.com/MWDelaney/ze...

Cool video about making a podcast website using @11ty.dev and RSS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=53kc... cc: @zachleat.com

Biggest performance gain on the Built Awesome Leaderboards this week goes to Bryon Tjanaka: improved 23 Lighthouse points with a ~3s improvement in LCP! https://www.speedlify.dev/site/btjanaka-net/

https://www.gildaconarne.de/ is #BuiltAwesome (using @webawesome.com and @fontawesome.com too!) by Stefan Frede

websites deserve weekends

The Icon Wizard Contest runs through September 7. Build something weird, clever, or fun, and submit it to the gallery, and it might get featured. There's already a Starry Night icon and a centaur in there! Get to building → fontawesome.com/icons/wizard

Learn how to add the standard.site protocol to your static site generator (like Jekyll, Astro and 11ty). spinalcms.com/blog/01/

Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form https://nooshu.com/blog/2026/03/09/using-cloudflare-workers-and-recaptcha-v3-for-a-static-site-contact-form/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540574)

In this post @snook.ca describes a method to create exclusive RSS-only content: https://snook.ca/everything/secret-rss-posts/

https://www.whimsybyjules.com/ is #BuiltAwesome by Josh Vickerson

I like 11ty a lot! rhubarb.gay is made with it and so is otterchaos.band

TIL Eleventy offers a way to dynamically save image files hosted elsewhere as local files during builds, so visitors to my statically generated portfolio site don't have to load images from many sources, they'll all be served locally. All using a shortcode. That's dope

Perf win: blog.fontawesome.com had an animated GIF poster image published recently (for an Aug 4 blog post). Changing the @11ty.dev Image plugin formats from "avif,auto" to "avif,webp,auto" added an animated WebP to the <picture> stack and saved 439kB of transfer weight! (nothing else changed) 🏆️

@11ty.dev 0-day comes in at almost 21 troy ounces

@mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy is trying out @davatron5000.bsky.social’s new MicroLighter Syntax Highlighting plugin (using CSS Custom Highlights) and shows how you can do the same on your Build Awesome/Eleventy project: https://www.steele.blue/microlighter/

https://paulmakeswebsites.com/ is #BuiltAwesome by @haul-pebert.bsky.social 🏆

As a little Saturday night project I turned a Calibre library into a website with @11ty.dev I give you, github.com/jmhobbs/cali...

I like this, might have to rework my Eleventy theme to increase my score :) https://rmendes.net/replies/2026/08/28/bc0e0