Bob Monsour's personal website

Contents Introduction Specifying what I wanted The Satori plus sharp libraries What posts are eligible for a generated og image?

Contents Introduction Highlights Analytics Deployment Tooling Finding my web dev tribe in retirement Eleventy becoming Build Awesome Conclusion Introduction I'm finding it increasingly hard to believe that I've just completed 3 full years of building, ref…

Contents Introduction Migrating to Cloudflare Workers What does deployment look like now?

I consider myself to be very fortunate.

Contents Introduction Wouldn't it be nice if...

The image above is the current home page of this site.

As the title says, I did not want to have to write this post.

One of the beauties and challenges of maintaining the 11tyBundle.dev site is the variety of sources it aggregates.

Just like my extended series on RSS IDs back in the day, the saga of bundling my CSS and JS continues.

Contents Introduction Before: The setup I described yesterday After: The new setup Conclusion Introduction It was as long ago as yesterday when I wrote about how I had decided to not minify the CSS and JS bundles for the 11ty Bundle website.

Update: While all of what is written below is true, it was not the fact that I was minifying the CSS and JS bundles that was causing the long build times.

If you work with 11ty and make use of the 11ty Bundle website, we're redesigning it and we'd love your input.

My wife and I are visiting Carmel-by-the-Sea, California today, on our way down to Pasadena.

I've read Bryan Stevenson's book Just Mercy and watched the movie adaptation (the trailer video).

By now, you've all been wondering about the red and blue colors on this site.

So, I was reading through an interesting discussion on the Eleventy Discord server the other day, and fLaMEd fury said something that struck me.

Contents Introduction The redesign A brief digression Web components you say?

I wanted to share my thoughts on two significant challenges that have captured my attention and how I am choosing to support them: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the need for better gun control in our country (the US).

It's almost August 1st, and I have mixed feelings about it.

Update (July 21, 2025): I no longer have dedicated Notes or TIL pages.