How to Implement status.lol on BuildAwesome
A practical guide to publishing new Eleventy blog posts to status.lol with GitHub Actions, the omg.lol API, and a small durable state file.
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Latest posts by Adam DJ Brett on web development, digital publishing, teaching, and independent scholarship.
Xmit Might Be My New Favorite Static Site Host
Comparing Xmit to Netlify, Vercel, and Render for static site hosting: simple GitHub Actions deploys, easy redirects, and refreshingly little platform overhead.
Making Static Sites FAIR with metadata.json, Zotero, Eleventy, and Jekyll
A detailed implementation note on adding FAIR Signposting, per-page Schema.org metadata.json files, Zotero metadata, and citation automation across Eleventy and Jekyll sites.
How Build Awesome alpha, async Nunjucks, and smaller Cloudflare checks fixed my podcast build
Notes on moving a podcast site from Eleventy 3 to Build Awesome alpha, using Nunjucks v4 full async, shrinking Cloudflare _headers, and cutting deploy time from about 59 seconds to about 31 seconds.
PNG to PDF to OCR: A Small Command Line Skill for Digital Humanities Work
A practical Mac command line workflow for turning high-resolution PNG scans into searchable OCR PDFs with img2pdf and OCRmyPDF.
Review of Warren Throckmorton’s The Christian Past That Wasn’t
Warren Throckmorton argues the “Christian nation” founding is a myth that fuels real politics today. A review of his case, his seven myths, and its limits.
Enabling Webmentions in Build Awesome (11ty)
How I added webmentions to my Eleventy site with Bridgy, webmention.io, a GitHub Action, and Netlify — coding in public, mistakes and all.
Publishing Your Eleventy Blog on the AT Protocol with Standard.site and Sequoia
A step-by-step guide to connecting your Eleventy static site to the AT Protocol using standard.site and sequoia-cli — own your content on the open web.
11tyx5: Five Whitestone Foundation Sites, Eleventy, and the Long Open Web
Five Whitestone Foundation sites rebuilt with Eleventy for the long web — JCRT, The New Polis, Esthesis, and more — plus Zotero, DOI, and what's next.
Book Review: Embodied Wisdom by W.J. de Kock
A review of Embodied Wisdom, W.J. de Kock's vision document for Eastern University's PhD in Professional Practice — and the theological case it makes for treating professional work as scholarship.
Book Review: On Being in the Middle by W.J. de Kock
A review of *On Being in the Middle: Doing Theology in the Face of Uncertainty*, W.J. de Kock's personal and theological account of growing up under apartheid and finding a theology of liminality.
Book Review: W. J. de Kock's Out of My Mind
An Afrikaner pastor's apartheid faith unravels, then heals into a “regenerative theology.” A review of W.J. de Kock's memoir-theology hybrid, Out of My Mind.