Welcome to xhosi
This is a template created by consolidating three existing Eleventy websites, extracting their best practices and creating a clean, maintainable foundation.
Features
- Modular CSS Architecture: Clean separation of concerns with 8 focused CSS files
- Theme System: Light/dark/system preference support with localStorage persistence
- Responsive Design: Mobile-first approach with accessibility considerations
- Modern Eleventy: v3.1+ with image optimization, RSS feeds, and ES modules
- Footnote Support: Both basic and advanced popover implementations
- Developer Experience: Draft handling, hot reload, and comprehensive build pipeline
Architecture Highlights
xhosi combines the cleanest implementations from three source websites:
- Foundation: Based on pborenstein.dev’s clean architecture
- Features: Best elements from all three sites without technical debt
- CSS: Reduced from 1000+ lines to ~800 lines across modular files
- Maintainability: Specialized agent workflow for ongoing development
Ready to build your next static site with confidence.
Recent Posts
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Music for Coding
The soundtrack to software development
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The Joy of Weekend Projects
Why building useless things is actually quite useful
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Kitchen Experiments
What cooking teaches you about iteration and failure
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Digital Garden Philosophy
Why I stopped worrying about perfect posts and started cultivating ideas
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The Evolution of Remote Work
How working from home went from emergency measure to permanent fixture
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The Perfect Commit Message
A meditation on the art of documenting change
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The Art of Walking
Rediscovering the simple pleasure of putting one foot in front of the other
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The Morning Coffee Ritual
On the importance of slow mornings and intentional brewing
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Debugging at 3 AM
When the production server decides to have an existential crisis
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Learning Vim (Again)
My third attempt at mastering the editor that refuses to be mastered