This site is built using Jekyll, and makes liberal use of several different code bases. Here are the most significant.
The site’s layout, styles, and navigation pane were forked from Mark Otto’s Poole and Hyde themes. Here’s his description as of April 17, 2016:
In the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde, Mr. Poole is Dr. Jekyll’s virtuous and loyal butler. Similarly, Poole is an upstanding and effective butler that helps you build Jekyll themes. It’s made by @mdo.
There are currently two themes built on Poole:
Learn more and contribute on GitHub.
Setup
Some fun facts about the setup of this project include:
- Built for Jekyll
- Developed on GitHub and hosted for free on GitHub Pages
- Coded with Sublime Text 2, an amazing code editor
- Designed and developed while listening to music like Blood Bros Trilogy
Have questions or suggestions? Feel free to open an issue on GitHub or ask me on Twitter.
Thanks for reading!
Michael Lanyon’s blog has a great tutorial on GitHub-Pages-friendly Liquid scripting. I used these ideas extensively throughout.
The Nice Blog layout has some good minimalist ideas and elegant coding.
I didn’t use Jekyll Now to initialize my blog, but I do really like their icons! These appear at the bottom of the nav bar.
I implemented LaTeX rendering using MathJax as described here by Haixing Hu. There was some messiness with inline equations but after tweaking the code he provided it works great.