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DESCRIPTION:Some might call my career one stricken with ADHD. I prefer to c
 all it one filled with curiosity\, and an itch to learn. From writing 8-bi
 t assembly language for Mototola pagers in the 1980s to marketing semicond
 uctors that perform compression and encryption operations in the 1990s to 
 building websites in the 20xxs\, in retirement\, I've been fortunate to fi
 nd my tribe in the eleventy community (eleventy being a static website gen
 erator).\n\nDuring 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 he
 lper and community resource developer\, and I'm loving every minute of it.
 \n\nI built my first website around 2004. It was a volunteer effort to bui
 ld 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 mi
 lked it to build the site that I would end up maintaining for nearly 10 ye
 ars.\n\nIn 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.\n\nFast forward to 2021\, and 
 finding Jekyll\, I built a site for a local tennis pro. I soon realized th
 at Jekyll wasn't being actively maintained. But eleventy was emerging to f
 ill its shoes. So off I was to build a personal site for myself and a few 
 others.\n\nThe 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 aggre
 gate all of those useful blog posts that I was finding. That somebody woul
 d 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.\n\nThe com
 munity is focused\, vibrant\, and welcoming and it's wonderful to be a par
 t of it. It's keeping me feeling young and alive.
DTSTAMP:20260404T075249Z
LOCATION:Barn
SUMMARY:While I've changed gears every 4-5 years\, in retirement\, I've man
 aged to find my web development tribe - Bob Monsour
URL:https://pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2026/talk/FBGZFL/
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