I’m remaking this website in the open. Follow along, if you wish: Writing, RSS, Source

V2 Rebuild & Redesign

In an effort to share openly, this post will track and record the work done for the site. Read more about why I’m rebuilding and the goals I have for this project.

Tasks

Continuously updated.

Content

• Archive old version and content at v1 subdomain
• Temporary home page (post)
• Migrate old content (post)
  • Work
  • Résumé
  • Colophon
• Contact form?
• Notes?
• Tweets?
  • https://mxb.dev/blog/syndicating-content-to-twitter-with-netlify-functions/

11ty

• Initialize (post)
• Add task list support to markdown (post)
• RSS
  • https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/rss/
• Syntax highlighting
  • https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/syntaxhighlight/
  • Matches color mode?

Tooling

• Netlify automatic deploys
• GitHub Actions
• Commitizen (or something else?)
• Lighthouse report
• changesets?
• ESLint
• prettier
• lint-staged w/ husky
• TypeScript?
• @pika/pack? Snowpack?
• Storybook
  • https://storybook.js.org/docs/guides/guide-html/
• Chromatic?
• Jest
• Testing Library

Features

• Offline support
• “Embed” code samples/playgrounds
• Dark mode
  • System (default), light, dark
  • Able to toggle back to system
  • Icon for ‘system’ reflects current mode?
• TinaCMS? NetlifyCMS? Others?
• Indie Web
  • Web mentions

Design

• Basic starting styles (post)
• Tailwind?