Some might call my career one stricken with ADHD. I prefer to call it one filled with curiosity, and an itch to learn. From writing 8-bit assembly language for Mototola pagers in the 1980s to marketing semiconductors that perform compression and encryption operations in the 1990s to building websites in the 20xxs, in retirement, I've been fortunate to find my tribe in the eleventy community (eleventy being a static website generator).

During the last 20+ years, there's been an undercurrent of me being excited by the web. In the last 3 years, I've found a home as a helper and community resource developer, and I'm loving every minute of it.

I built my first website around 2004. It was a volunteer effort to build a new site for a new school. I happened to be in the right place at the right time. MovableType was the static site generator of the day and I milked it to build the site that I would end up maintaining for nearly 10 years.

In 2005, I was fortunate to attend the first "An Event Apart" in Philadelphia, where Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer, and Jason Santa Maria blessed me with feedback on this fledgling new school website. Talk about being in the right place at the right time.

Fast forward to 2021, and finding Jekyll, I built a site for a local tennis pro. I soon realized that Jekyll wasn't being actively maintained. But eleventy was emerging to fill its shoes. So off I was to build a personal site for myself and a few others.

The more I found myself googling about how to get the most out of eleventy, I came to believe that somebody should build a site to aggregate all of those useful blog posts that I was finding. That somebody would be me. Thus, on May 1, 2023, the 11ty Bundle website came into being. Today, it consists of over 1,600 blog posts by more than 450 authors, along with a showcase of over 1,400 sites build with eleventy.

The community is focused, vibrant, and welcoming and it's wonderful to be a part of it. It's keeping me feeling young and alive.