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About a year ago I redesigned this site. I mostly liked my old site, but I wanted to move away from Jekyll. I didn't dislike Jekyll, but programming brings many technologies to learn. I've been heading down the javascript path for a while now learning express.js and p5. I wanted to complete my transformation with the move to Eleventy (or 11ty). This post covers problems I had moving from Jekyll to Eleventy, how I solved them, and introduces some features of the new site.

Over the last few years, I've designed a few things that I'd like to share. Some for clients, some for fun, and some to bring recycling to my community. I don't do a ton of designing, so when I do design something I like I feel like sharing.

I recently needed to download Ecological Site Descriptions (ESD) for a large part of the area I work in. The NRCS, Jornada Experimental Range and New Mexico State University have a handy website, EDIT that they provide all ESDs by Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA), wrapped in a nice user interface. In the past I've just used the site to view and download the ESDs as I needed them. But today I noticed that the EDIT website added a Developer Resources section page. It even has examples in R. I figured it was time to get to know the EDIT API.

A colorful vector flow field from the edges. Got the idea and a lot of the how to from Roni Kaufman.

Played around with 3D perlin noise flow field the other day. I basically just went through the tutorial on the Coding Train's YouTube channel to get started. Looks pretty cool. This one stops at 60 seconds.

As with my first post, here we are attempting to implement circle packing. This time I wanted to animate circle growth and then stop circle growth before the circles overlapped. I unabashedly stole most of this from Daniel Shiffman, but I wanted to use classes instead of just a circle object as he does in his example.