I migrated this blog to Eleventy 2.0

• 11 March 2023

Eleventy 2.0 just came out and I migrated this blog from Wordpress to it. I also moved the hosting from Digital Ocean to AWS.

Why did I do it?

Let me count the ways:

• Static Site Generation fits in with my philosophy to moving more of my life towards text (vs using a blog editor UI)
• Eleventy uses Markdown
• There were some nice tutorials on migrating a site from Wordpress to Eleventy. Note that I opted to do some custom work to better understand the Wordpress export and have a nicer result.
• AWS should reduce my costs
• I'm working to master CDK and deploying this blog with it gets me more experience with it
• Eleventy is the underdog to Gatsby, Hugo and Jekyll and I root for underdogs

I'm happy with the results. Hopefully this will reduce the friction of writing blog posts too and we'll see more content on here in the near future.

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