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Eleventy excerpts

Wherever I list posts on this site, e.g. on the Home page and Archive page, I want to display a reasonably long excerpt from the linked post, to give visitors an idea of its content. There seems to be an almost comical variation in what people want from excerpts - how long they should be, whether they should be marked manually or picked out automatically, or entered separately from the content altogether, whether images should be included or not etc. etc. Fun!

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2024-03-13: Coming out of a very intense period at work. I actually don't mind them, as long as they come to an end. I wouldn't want to be constantly busy, but I also wouldn't want to be too idle. Variation is the key.

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My name is Martin Gunnarsson, and I live in Dalby, near Lund, in southern Sweden. This blog is mostly a place for me to document things I found difficult to find or to understand (or both) for myself as well as for others.

With work and family life taking up most of my time, nothing I write about here should be seen as best practice, but rather the way I achieved the results I wanted. Free time is rare and passes by quickly, and most of my hobby projects have clear goals (sometimes quite whimsical ones) that I want to reach. At the same time I am a bit of a perfectionist, so I try to stay away from the dirtiest of the quick and dirty solutions out there.

If I've made a mistake or missed an obvious solution, please get in touch and let me know! There are some links for that in the page footer.

Happy tinkering!