By Michael McGarrah ·
9 min read
Writing a blog post is half the work. The other half is making sure it reaches people — through RSS feeds, sitemaps, search engines, newsletters, and social sharing. Here's the full distribution pipeline for a Jekyll blog, from git push to a reader's screen.
By Michael McGarrah ·
17 min read
I gutted a 2017 Bootstrap template and rebuilt my resume site with modern CSS, four purpose-built views, a Jinja2/XeLaTeX PDF pipeline, company logos, and machine-readable structured data. Here is what I kept, what I dropped, and why.
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previewing a Jekyll site locally with --drafts and --future, it's hard to tell which posts are live and which are still unpublished.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.
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