By Michael McGarrah ·
9 min read
When previewing a Jekyll site locally with --drafts and --future, it's hard to tell which posts are live and which are still unpublished. I added Font Awesome icons and italic styling to the archive and home pages so drafts get a pencil and future posts get a robot — visible only during local development.
By Michael McGarrah ·
9 min read
The Jekyll Run VS Code extension is convenient for local development, but its settings live in four different places and the defaults won't show your future-dated posts. Here's how to configure it properly, where the settings actually come from, and the _config.yml trap that silently overrides your CLI flags.
By Michael McGarrah ·
8 min read
A single favicon.ico is no longer enough. Here is how I upgraded my Jekyll site to support high-resolution Apple Touch icons, Android manifests, and modern browser standards using ImageMagick and a few lines of HTML.
By Michael McGarrah ·
12 min read
Three GitHub Actions workflows, Dependabot, and a Lighthouse config — here's the full CI/CD pipeline that builds, deploys, secures, and monitors this Jekyll blog. Including the bugs I shipped along the way.
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