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The semantic web and schemas?

TL;DR: how RDFaL and HTML interact.

For a while now, I have been working on my Jekyll theme, structRDFaL, which is meant to make generating structured data in accordance with schema.org easier. As stated, improving SEO for your site is a secondary concern for paying attention to schemas. It should be about best practices and being a good netizen with just a little bit more effort.

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Getting Started with 11ty ... or not

It is time to start a new site and the question is should I use Jekyll, as all my other current sites use (those that aren't still hand-coded HTML) or try something new. I've been wanting to try something new for a while but common sense (?) says that I should just use what I've been using, because why keep reinventing the wheel? I'm not saying that I'm some sort of big industry or innovator, but I did write some plug-ins and generators for Jekyll and I liked being able to add/modify the functionality and wanted to continue to do so.

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