Faster Netlify builds
Slowly but surely, I’ve been chipping away at my site’s build time on Netlify.
There’s little left for me to optimize until Jekyll drops some nice updates in version 4.0. I’ve cached the rendering of Liquid includes…
#web development
Jekyll themes
Open source Jekyll themes to help build a site or blog on GitHub Pages, Netlify, and more.
Autumn refresh
Using CSS Grid Layout Module to redesign a Jekyll site and further improve performance and accessibility.
How I'm using Jekyll in 2017
Lessons learned from building, optimizing, and deploying a huge static site powered by everyone's favorite SSG --- Jekyll.
Styling language specific code blocks with Jekyll
While inspecting the markup of some syntax highlighted code blocks I noticed something I hadn’t before, language-lexer classes:
<div class="language-css highlighter-rouge">
<pre class="highlight">
<code>.foo { color: red; }</code>
</pre>
</div>This extra hook1 on the <div>…
Basically Basic
Your new Jekyll default theme.
Accessing static files in Jekyll
While investigating ways of using static files with Jekyll for a site prototype I was building, I learned that site.static_files was a thing. What is it and…
Improving static comments with Jekyll & Staticman
Using Staticman to add threaded comments and reply notifications to a static-based Jekyll site.
HTML inside Kramdown table cells
The question of how to write a list inside of a table cell with Kramdown recently came up in a thread on Jekyll Talk — prompting me to look…
Configuring publishing sources for GitHub Pages
You know what sucks? Maintaining two separate branches of an open source project, just to host its source code and documentation together…