Robb. Knight.

Don't care about the backstory? Go check out slashpages.net.

While putting Baby Knight to bed I had an idea for a project: a website that acts as a guide to the different slash pages you can add to you website.

"Slash pages" is a phrase coined by Shellsharks when I called pages like /uses "sitelets", which is not a good name. They also helped me come up with a good description:

Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /now, /about, or /uses. They tend to describe the individual behind the site and are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb.

I managed to snag a decent domain^[1] for it and to put the site together I of course used Eleventy. Create a collection of the slash pages, render them out on the home page. Easy peasy.

I was able to use some new CSS I've not used before including wavy text decoration and ::first-letter. The caveat with the latter is the "first letter" also includes any punctuation. So /u will both be styled in an element with the contents of /uses. To get around this I added an empty span, which causes ::first-letter to only highlight the /:

<style>
    p { color: #cd064d; }
    p::first-letter { color: #ccc; }
</style>

<p class="first-letter">
    /<span></span>uses
</p>

The source code of the site is on GitHub and you can see it in all it's glory at slashpages.net.