Created for my final project for CS50’s Introduction to Computer Science.
I honestly was deep into making an app for android that I hope will make it’s way to light sometime in the future but I didn’t correctly estimate how long it would take and am currently stuck with some bugs I can’t live with submitting for this project. Eventually I will make it public on my Github but feel free to reach out if you think you can help and I will share more!
A lot of this site has been cobbled together and I am sure it will change a bit over time, but my main aim was to have a desktop/mobile version (though I am not too happy with the mobile version), using the base Jekyll Minima v3 theme. Needless to say I struggled enough getting it to work that I am just submitting what I have!
I use Obsidian for my note taking so I like the idea of having something that would work with MD files. Having a static site was also appealing because I find time and time again the tracking on a lot of modern websites annoying and not privacy focused. Who knows if I will continue to feel like this but for the time being this was the solution that fit the best for me.
Hopefully this is enough and I can continue to learn more going forward!
This might not work going forward but the only way I was able to get things to update for me was the following cobbled together from a few different places after some intense googling. The files are included on my github but you can also refer below if it helps at all!
Gemfile
source "https://rubygems.org"
# Since it is pulling from the theme repo though it could break
# But it seems to take forever for it to ever get updates
gem "jekyll", github: "jekyll/jekyll"
gem "jekyll", ENV["JEKYLL_VERSION"] if ENV["JEKYLL_VERSION"]
gem "kramdown-parser-gfm" if ENV["JEKYLL_VERSION"] == "~> 3.9"
# This is the default theme for new Jekyll sites. You may change this to anything you like.
gem "minima", git: "https://github.com/jekyll/minima"
# I had to leave github-pages commented out or this broke again.
#gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins
# If you have any plugins, put them here!
group :jekyll_plugins do
gem "jekyll-feed"
gem "jekyll-remote-theme"
end
# Windows and JRuby does not include zoneinfo files, so bundle the tzinfo-data gem
# and associated library.
platforms :mingw, :x64_mingw, :mswin, :jruby do
gem "tzinfo", ">= 1", "< 3"
gem "tzinfo-data"
end
# Performance-booster for watching directories on Windows
gem "wdm", "~> 0.1.1", :platforms => [:mingw, :x64_mingw, :mswin]
# Lock `http_parser.rb` gem to `v0.6.x` on JRuby builds since newer versions of the gem
# do not have a Java counterpart.
gem "http_parser.rb", "~> 0.6.0", :platforms => [:jruby]
config.yml
My config file in case you find it useful
title: Type nerdy to me
author:
name: Bradley James
email: "blog@bradley-james.ca"
pronouns: "He/Him She/Her"
description: >- # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
My personal website where I post about things I discover about technology and figure out where I might end up in the overwhelming world of IT
baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
url: "https://bradley-james.ca" # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com
collections:
bookmarks:
output: true
# Build settings
remote_theme: jekyll/minima
plugins:
- jekyll-feed
- jekyll-seo-tag
# Theme-specific settings
minima:
skin: auto
# Minima date format.
# Refer to https://shopify.github.io/liquid/filters/date/ if you want to customize this.
#
# date_format: "%b %-d, %Y"
# Generate social links in footer.
#
social_links:
- { platform: github, user_url: "https://github.com/aliocantinea" }
- { platform: mastodon, user_url: "https://mastodon.social/@Aliocantinea" }
- { platform: email, user_url: "mailto:blog@bradley-james.ca" }
- { platform: rss, user_url: "https://bradley-james.ca/feed.xml" }
# - { platform: devto, user_url: "https://dev.to/jekyll" }
# - { platform: dribbble, user_url: "https://dribbble.com/jekyll" }
# - { platform: facebook, user_url: "https://www.facebook.com/jekyll" }
# - { platform: flickr, user_url: "https://www.flickr.com/photos/jekyll" }
# - { platform: google_scholar, user_url: "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qc6CJjYAAAAJ" }
# - { platform: instagram, user_url: "https://www.instagram.com/jekyll" }
# - { platform: keybase, user_url: "https://keybase.io/jekyll" }
# - { platform: linkedin, user_url: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jekyll" }
# - { platform: microdotblog, user_url: "https://micro.blog/jekyll" }
# - { platform: pinterest, user_url: "https://www.pinterest.com/jekyll" }
# - { platform: stackoverflow, user_url: "https://stackoverflow.com/users/1234567/jekyll" }
# - { platform: telegram, user_url: "https://t.me/jekyll" }
# - { platform: twitter, user_url: "https://twitter.com/jekyllrb" }
# - { platform: youtube, user_url: "https://www.youtube.com/jekyll" }
# If you want to link only specific pages in your header, uncomment this and add the path to the pages in
# order as they should show up.
#
header_pages:
- vault.md
- about.md
permalink: /:title/
show_excerpts: true
# Syntax highlighter settings
kramdown:
syntax_highlighter_opts:
default_lang: kotlin
guess_lang: true