Tech Blog

About

About Me

IT Program/Project Manager who’s been in the industry since the late 90s; Now learning to be technical again because (1) it’s where my heart is and (2) AI tools have opened up so many opportunities to learn and experiment.

More to come …

Leaving the below because I forget stuff and it’s useful if I ever need to recall anything!

Github Pages

Just fork this repository to your_username.github.io and adjust the _config.yml to use with Github Pages and your page is done.

Features

Installation

To run locally install Ruby and then run:

git clone https://github.com/niklasbuschmann/contrast.git
cd contrast
gem install bundler jekyll jekyll-feed
bundle exec jekyll serve

Config

Your _config.yml could for example look like this:

title: "Blog Title"
author: "Blog Author"
description: "My blog"
permalink: /:title/
lang: "en"
excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n"
date_format: "%B %d, %Y"

# Layout

show_excerpts: true             # show article excerpts instead of archive list on the home page
show_frame: true                # display a grey frame on large screens
show_sidebar: false             # show a sidebar instead of the usual header
show_minimal: false             # remove all clutter

# Menu                          # for available icons see https://fontawesome.com/v5/icons/

navigation:                     # accepts {file, title, url, icon, sidebaricon}
  - {file: "archive.html", sidebaricon: home}
  - {file: "README.md", sidebaricon: address-card}

external:                       # accepts {file, title, url, icon, sidebaricon}
  - {title: Mail, icon: envelope, url: "mailto:author@example.com"}
  - {title: Github, icon: github, url: "https://github.com/"}
  - {title: Subscribe, icon: rss, url: "/feed.xml"}

comments:
#  disqus_shortname: ""         # see https://disqus.com
#  isso_domain: ""              # see https://isso-comments.de

plugins:
 - jekyll-feed

Math

Contrast comes preinstalled with a leightweight alternative to MathJax called KaTeX. To display equations in a post simply set mathjax: true in the article’s front matter. Jektex can be used to pre-render math on the server side.

License

public domain

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