Eleventy (the cool static site generator) has a great feature called Pagination which allows you to iterate over a list of things in chunks and produce multiple output files. As I was migrating this very site over to Eleventy, I found I needed to perform a double pagination. This is when, during paginating over a list of blog post years, I found I wanted to also paginate again over the posts in those years, so I could have at most 20 posts on a single list page.
In my last post, I mentioned I rebuilt this website using Eleventy. As part of the rebuild I also wanted to modernize my hosting, which previously was a basic cPanel hosting plan with a local Australian hosting provider. My website is statically generated, so the cPanel hosted was fine. Although, I did have one piece of functionality that required server-side logic, and that is the comment...
Back in 2018 I migrated my blog from WordPress to Hexo. Hexo is a static site generator running on Node.js. At the time I chose Hexo because it allowed me complete control over the structure of the resulting website, plus I could override and tweak the markup of the resulting pages. Hexo is a fairly fully-featured static site generator. It has a lot of functionality built into it to cover a lot of...