Back in January 2020, Ben Holmes set out to do what just about every web developer does each year: rebuild his personal site. In this article, he shares his story of how he set out to build his own build pipeline from absolute ground zero and created “Slinkity”. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/10/building-ssg-11ty-vite-jam-sandwich/
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