brennan.day
Description: Brennan Kenneth Brown's personal IndieWeb blog built with Eleventy. Features essays, poetry, and musings on writing, technology, and the human experience with full IndieWeb integration including Microformats2, webmentions, and RSS feeds.
Technologies: Eleventy (11ty), Nunjucks, Markdown, CSS, HTML, Microformats2, Webmentions
A personal blog following IndieWeb principles, built with Eleventy and hosted on Netlify. The site embodies the IndieWeb ethos of owning your domain, data, and identity.
Key features:
- IndieWeb-ready: Microformats2 markup (h-card, h-entry, h-feed)
- Webmentions support via webmention.io
- RSS/Atom feeds for content syndication
- Custom domain via Porkbun
- Version controlled content as plain text files
- Dark mode with Gruvbox-inspired color scheme
- Semantic HTML5 with accessibility in mind
- No tracking or analytics by default
The site is designed to be a permanent, stable home for my writing and thoughts on the web, with full data ownership and portability.