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Highlights in this issue:

• Build Awesome (11ty) v4.0.0.0 alphas
• One markdown file to multiple output files
• Adam has caught fire
• Brennan also remains prolific
• Using AI to diagnose performance issues

Build Awesome (11ty) v4.0.0.0 alphas, One markdown file to multiple output files, Adam has caught fire, Brennan also remains prolific, Using AI to diagnose performance issues

Jul 8, 2026 · 8 releases · 16 posts · 19 sites

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A note from Bob:

We're in the process of moving 400 miles south. This will be our 11th house...and it will be House Awesome. Get it?

Anyway, it seems that eleventy sites and blog posts keep on coming, so I'm keeping this going.

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Highlights

Build Awesome (11ty) v4.0.0.0 alphas. Zach has put out a couple of new alpha releases of Build Awesome (11ty) with Build Awesome (11ty) v4.0.0-alpha.9 being the big one. alpha.10 is a small fix, so check out those release notes for details.

One markdown file to multiple output files. Alex Russell has released a plugin for "generating multiple output documents from a single markdown file". I've seen several requests for this kind of thing, so this is a welcome addition to the 11ty ecosystem. Check out eleventy-plugin-multidoc for details.

Adam has caught fire. Adam DJ Brett has been on a tear, generating 8 posts over the last few weeks. Head to his author page for all of his posts. But here's a quick list for this issue:

• Easier Font Awesome SVGs in 11ty — how to use the @11ty/font-awesome plugin to convert Font Awesome web fonts into inline SVGs during the Eleventy build process.

• How to Implement status.lol on BuildAwesome — implementing a GitHub Actions workflow that automatically posts new blog entries to status.lol.

• How Build Awesome alpha, async Nunjucks, and smaller Cloudflare checks fixed my podcast build — optimizing his podcast website's build pipeline by upgrading to Build Awesome alpha, implementing async Nunjucks, and reducing unnecessary Cloudflare checks, significantly improving deployment speed.

• Making Static Sites FAIR with metadata.json, Zotero, Eleventy, and Jekyll — how to implement FAIR signposting and metadata.json files in static sites built with Eleventy and Jekyll to make scholarly content machine-readable for citation managers and discovery systems.

• Xmit Might Be My New Favorite Static Site Host — discusses his preference for Xmit as a static site host because it offers simple, fast deployment without requiring workflow reorganization.

• Publishing Your Eleventy Blog on the AT Protocol with Standard.site and Sequoia — how to publish an Eleventy static site on the AT Protocol using Standard.site and Sequoia.

• Enabling Webmentions in Eleventy (11ty) — implementing webmentions on his Eleventy site to display social media interactions and replies using open web standards.

• 11tyx5: Five Whitestone Foundation Sites, Eleventy, and the Long Open Web — rebuilding five Whitestone Foundation academic publishing sites using Eleventy to create a durable, long-term publishing infrastructure based on plain files and open web standards.

Brennan also remains prolific. Brennan Kenneth Brown has continued to grace us with deep dives into the processes he uses to flesh out his site. Here are his latest two posts:

• Publishing My Eleventy Blog to the ATmosphere with Standard.site — integrating the AT Protocol and Standard.site into an Eleventy-based blog to publish long-form content to Bluesky's decentralized network.

• How Webmentions Work on brennan.day — how webmentions enable cross-site interactions on static blogs, using webmention.io as an intermediary service to receive and display likes, replies, and mentions from other websites.

Using AI to diagnose performance issues. Raymond Camden used AI to uncover performance improvement opportunities for his blog in Asking Cursor to Review My Blog for Performance.

8 releases · 16 posts · 19 sites

Until next time...