about this repo

This is my tech blog on https://dbrinegar.github.io with posts that are mostly notes to myself, hopefully useful to someone else too.

Design goals are: simple, readable, works on mobile, reusable, and optionally integrates with Twitter, Github, Google Analytics, Disqus. Uses a simple fluid layout based on width of browser, which you can see in js/resize.js.

It uses the built-in Jekyll publishing system on Github, so a post is just a Markdown file and publishing is just git push. You can read more about this feature here: https://pages.github.com/

forking

You can have a blog like this following these steps:

• fork this repo in github, call your repo "youraccount".github.io to trigger the GitHub Pages workflow
• clone your new repo to your dev environment
• edit _config.yml so you aren't using my accounts
• rm _posts/* so you aren't publishing my posts
• ./start-server to install tools, build the site, start a local server, open a browser window to see the local version of the blog

License: BSD

_config.yml

At miniumum, set author and url in the custom variables. These show up in the templates as {{ site.author }} and {{ site.url }} if you want to see how things work. You can leave the optional variables empty.

# custom, required
author: 'your name here'
url: 'https://your_account_here.github.io'

# custom, optional
email:
google_analytics_account:
github_account:
disqus_account:
twitter_account:
twitter_widget_id:

Please see the integration page code in _includes/ for details on these.

publishing with git

• git add --all
• git commit -m "blog fork" to save your work locally
• git push to go live on github.io