McGarrah Technical Blog

AI-Generated HTML Reports on GitHub Pages: A Pattern for Lightweight Dashboards

· 13 min read
AI coding agents produce HTML instinctively — self-contained, zero-dependency, renders anywhere. Instead of letting those reports die in a chat window, publish them to a Jekyll site on GitHub Pages for stable URLs, version history, and instant sharing. Here's the pattern.

Jekyll Run Plugin: Fixing the Multi-Root Workspace Crash

· 10 min read
The Jekyll Run VS Code extension crashes with 'TypeError: Cannot read properties of null' in multi-root workspaces on macOS. The error is misleading — the real problem is macOS GUI apps don't inherit your shell PATH, so the plugin runs system Ruby 2.6. The fix is rbenv with Ruby 3.3, launching VS Code from a terminal, and understanding why every other approach fails.

The Google Services Tax on a Simple Blog

· 5 min read
Running a technical blog has turned into a maze of Google services, each with its own setup complexity, approval processes, and interconnected dependencies. What started as a simple Jekyll website has become an exercise in Google service integration frustration — and I'm still fighting.

Building a Draft Preview Site for Jekyll — Part 3: The Implementation

· 14 min read
The design is done. Time to build it. This post covers the complete implementation — repo creation, DNS configuration, the final GitHub Actions workflow, Staticrypt testing results, and every edge case I hit along the way.

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