Holy shit your cohost-style personal site is so fucking good. I see you put it all on GitHub, I might give it a whirl, this rules so much!!! Shit!!!!!!!! Everybody look at it (presuming to pub/"answer" this ask)! https://topposts.net/
thanks rachel! I'm trying to have a go of making Eleventy, which I think is super powerful and interesting, into a piece of software that I can use for things that aren't careful handcrafted essays. I'm porting what I guess is my filtered experience of the cohost interface to a private blogging environment-- I'm not the only one I know who's doing this right now, but I am the one who is coloring within the Cohost lines the most that I've seen, so I could see how that would be appealing/comforting to people!
I tried to be smart and make a base repo for the "project" and a fork for my own website and then I started making a chain of commits to the fork and now the original project is completely out of date, so I will try to get the original thing up-to-date soon and then hopefully some people who are interested can tell me if it works for them? After Cohost goes read-only on Oct 1 I plan to shift over to posting full-time on https://topposts.net and I am working on making the Atom feed not broken in annoying ways.
One other thing to note is that I built the "template" repo around the idea that you'd be starting a new blog on Eleventy-- if you wanted to add the posting interface/process to your existing Eleventy blog, that'll take some more considerable refactoring of what I've got right now, since it'll need to be adaptable to whatever specific post metadata your templates expect to find in the frontmatter. That's not an impossible thing to solve, but it will be a combination of code and documentation, so uhhhh I hope I can do this? But I do not guarantee it.