twocentstudios

Site Makeover and Jekyll Cheatsheet

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:56:36 -0500

I took a few days to migrate my blog from Octopress to Jekyll. Octopress is an opinionated fork based on Jekyll so it wasn’t too crazy. There were a couple hangups though, mostly due to the fact that I never bothered to learn how a lot of the magic of Octopress worked.

The major changes are:

The blog root is no longer at /blog. I had to add redirect pages with the jekyll-redirect-from plugin.
The root isn’t a single page site like the previous version.
I ditched the heavy green background for a cleaner white.
I removed the special Octopress syntax highlighting in favor of Jekyll’s default.
The only plugin I’ve kept is caption_image_tag, which unfortunately makes it so I can’t have github generate the site for me.
I had to write my own simple deploy script to handle pushing the rendered site to the master branch and the source to the source branch on each change.
I modified the CSS from the base Jekyll config, bringing over a few styles from the previous blog.

I’m hoping getting a streamlined workflow will encourage me to blog about topics both large and small in scope.

Creating and deploying

> $ cd twocentstudios
> $ ./new.sh Why I've Decided To Blog More About Blogging
> $ git add .
> $ git commit -m "Add post"
> $ ./deploy.sh

Jekyll basics

> $ jekyll build
> $ jekyll serve

New Home

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:28:00 -0500

This is my first post on the github servers.

After my back and forth post almost a year ago on where I should host all my web stuff, everything kind of fell into place.

A programming blog doesn’t have much overhead, so when I came across github pages, I realize that this was the perfect solution. Pair it with octopress, and it’s got that hacker feel without having to admin and pay for an entire server or VPS.

And it definitely has that hacker feel to it. What with all the multi-computer, RVM install problems, SSHing, GCC/LLVM, proxy files, domain name servers, email servers, etc., it took bursts of work on this thing over the course of several months to get it off the ground. It’s been a good learning experience though, and with the career path I want to head towards, it’s definitely necessary to keep rolling with this.

I love the simplicity of tumblr sometimes, but I’m glad I’ve got octopress all set up.

My Jekyll/Octopress Cheatsheet

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:26:00 -0600

This is my first Jekyll post. And as such, it seems fitting to cram all these new commands into a cheat sheet post so I can take my time learning them (and I don’t have to search through just a few pages of documentation).

Pushing Changes to the Blog Source

	cd octopress
	git add .
	git commit -m 'modded blog source'
	git push origin source

Creating New Posts

New posts are created it in the source/_posts directory.

	rake new_post["title"]

Adding Categories

Categories are defined in the yaml header.

	# One category
	categories: one

	# Multiple categories
	categories: [one, two, three]

Draft Posts

Add the following to the yaml header.

	published: false

Images

	{% caption_img /images/image_name.jpg Caption for the image %}

Syntax Highlightling

Surround normal code blocks with:

	{% codeblock Title or something (FileName.m) lang:objc %}
		code here
	{% endcodeblock %}

Generate & Preview

	rake generate   # Generates posts and pages into the public directory
	rake watch      # Watches source/ and sass/ for changes and regenerates
	rake preview    # Watches, and mounts a webserver at http://localhost:4000

Generate & Deploy

	rake generate
	rake deploy