Fighting with Jekyll

I made a blog-ish… thing. This is gonna be mess of all my interests getting spewed out onto the internet.

Me being me I wanted to make my own site from scratch using Tailwind, my favorite font (Atkinson Hyperlegible), and emoji set (Fluent).

I do plan to do this but I wanted to use a website, not spend the whole time playing with and swearing at CSS. I’ll probably end up modifying the theme here bit by bit.

But yeah, welcome, there’ll be more posts I swear…

Actually setting this up was more of a pain than expected, I followed GitHub’s instructions for deploying Jekyll and developing a page locally, and this worked… until God forbid I wanted dark mode. I remembered @Cubie87 has a GitHub pages-based site with dark mode, but they just modified the Minima theme. Then I stumbled upon this article which talks about Minima v3, which of course GitHub doesn’t support, so then after going down a long rabbit hole of trying to get it working without the github-pages gem-screaming. Thanks to this thread in StackOverflow, I think its working. At the time of writing I haven’t pushed to GitHub so we’ll see.

The next stage was just messing around with different configuration vales, trying to add plugins, and changing the includes to remove stuff I don’t need, like RSS (sorry I know it’s cool but it scares me).

UPDATE: I have now pushed an update to include Hyperlegible as the default font, I’ve also changed the code font to be Fira Code.