https://tfedder.de/ Jabbering about the joys of web development or whatever en https://tfedder.de/blog/wasteful-partial-serving/ Updating Caddy to the newest stable release fixed an issue with caching my precompressed files. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/wasteful-partial-serving/ https://tfedder.de/blog/css-typed-arithmetic/ I somehow missed a new feature in CSS calculations that will allow for niche but stunning styling. Fri, 21 Nov 2025 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/css-typed-arithmetic/ https://tfedder.de/blog/blog-post-drafts/ I had a look at enabling drafts for this site again, and it turned out that, in current versions, it is very easy to do. Sun, 06 Jul 2025 02:00:00 +0200 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/blog-post-drafts/ https://tfedder.de/blog/adding-web-font/ In my effort to increase the load without adding much actual value, I added a web font to my site. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:00:00 +0200 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/adding-web-font/ https://tfedder.de/blog/freemarker-and-python-page-templates-in-11ty/ 11ty, FreeMarker Generator, and Chameleon allow me to render FreeMarker and Python page templates to HTML within the same static site generator. Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:00:00 +0200 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/freemarker-and-python-page-templates-in-11ty/ https://tfedder.de/blog/hacky-content-negotiation/ My web server of choice doesn't support language-based content negotiation out of the box. So I added a work-around to my config to switch the home page content accordingly. Sat, 28 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/hacky-content-negotiation/ https://tfedder.de/blog/wasteful-cacheless-serving/ I put off setting up cache directives, because I wanted to solve CSS bundling and hashing based cache busting for assets first. But that has been a wasteful mistake that I fixed now. Sun, 08 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/wasteful-cacheless-serving/ https://tfedder.de/blog/focus-on-headline-animation/ I created a silly animation, because I can. Then I added it to my website and — later on — I came up with a reason for it — lol. Tue, 12 Nov 2024 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/focus-on-headline-animation/ https://tfedder.de/blog/impressions-11ty-conference/ I've seen, dare I say attended, the completely virtual and very first 11ty conference, and I like to share my impressions. Mon, 13 May 2024 02:00:00 +0200 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/impressions-11ty-conference/ https://tfedder.de/blog/updating-11ty-to-enjoy-esm/ I updated the version of 11ty I use for this blog to the current alpha, to switch from CJS to ESM. Mon, 26 Feb 2024 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/updating-11ty-to-enjoy-esm/ https://tfedder.de/blog/auto-discover-rss/ After I've been reminded multiple times, I finally enable RSS auto-discovery for my blog's RSS feed. Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/auto-discover-rss/ https://tfedder.de/blog/minification-and-compression/ I am continuing to catch up with the technical basics for a modern‐day website. This time I add minification and compression to my 11ty build and the Caddy configuration. Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/minification-and-compression/ https://tfedder.de/blog/security-headers/ Some quick wins for security by setting HTTP response headers, such as Content-Security-Policy and Strict-Transport-Security. Thu, 04 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/security-headers/ https://tfedder.de/blog/deploying-my-website/ From running my website for myself on my machine to hosting it publicly for everyone. Sat, 30 Dec 2023 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/deploying-my-website/ https://tfedder.de/blog/abiding-by-the-law/ Depending on ones jurisdiction there are different kinds of hoops to jump through to run a website legally. I let you in on the ups and downs of making my website abide by the law. Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/abiding-by-the-law/ https://tfedder.de/blog/generating-a-static-blog-with-eleventy/ From 0 to minimal blog using 11ty. I tell you the steps I took to create the minimal technical basis for this website's content. Sat, 23 Dec 2023 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/generating-a-static-blog-with-eleventy/ https://tfedder.de/blog/why/ In this blog post I try to give an explanation for why I created this website; going into more detail than: it is fun. Sun, 17 Dec 2023 01:00:00 +0100 Tobias Fedder https://tfedder.de/blog/why/