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2026-08-03

Goal: Move the portfolio from client-side JS rendering to Eleventy SSG.

What we did:

  • Swapped out client-side rendering for Nunjucks loops ({% raw %}{% for item in collection %}{% endraw %}) in index.html, projects.html, blogs.html, certifications.html, and events.html.
  • Wired those loops to pull data directly from _data/ JSON files at build time.
  • Stripped the old fetch() calls and DOM injection logic out of assets/js/script.js.
  • Set htmlTemplateEngine: "njk" in .eleventy.js. This stopped LiquidJS from choking on the Nunjucks loops inside .html files.

Why:

  • Doing this at build time means better SEO and no weird layout shifts when the page loads.
  • It let us drop the empty <noscript> tags.
  • The site now actually follows standard Eleventy patterns instead of fighting the framework.

Goal: Clean up the codebase, fix a few bugs, and make it easier to run locally.

What we did:

  • Added a run.bat script to wrap the local dev server and build commands.
  • Found and removed a trailing comma in assets/data/last_updated.json that was breaking the projects fetch.
  • Gutted the rest of the dead API functions from assets/js/script.js (specifically populateEducation, populateExperience, populateCertifications, and populateEvents).
  • Replaced the JS onclick redirects in _includes/sections/about.njk with standard <a> tags.
  • Fixed the Nunjucks category filter in _includes/sections/projects.njk by changing downcase to lower, and deleted some leftover <noscript> blocks.
  • Set the Web3Forms access_key in _includes/sections/contact.njk to an empty build variable so the raw placeholder doesn't get submitted.

Why:

  • To drop dead code and cut down the client bundle.
  • The JSON parsing bug was stopping dynamic content from loading.
  • JS shouldn't be doing work that a standard HTML link handles out of the box.

Goal: Finish migrating the last pieces of hardcoded HTML to static loops.

What we did:

  • Replaced the hardcoded blog entries in _includes/sections/blogs.njk with a Nunjucks loop pointing to blogs.json.
  • Dropped a loop into _includes/sections/certifications.njk. It was still an empty shell from the old JS setup, so we gave it the proper markup to render cards at build time.

Why:

  • The SSG migration wasn't complete until these were fixed. Now all content grids actually render out of the box without client-side fetches.