First, Hello!

For years, I’ve kept a devlog while working on my side projects at home. Not for posterity’s sake, but because I only code a couple hours a night and I tend to get side tracked by the shiny-new. …so, I need notes to help me remember the lessons I once learned and have since forgotten.

My devlog is typically pretty obtuse; mis-typed notes, screen shots and code snippets. Since I’m going to try to keep my notes in this repo now, I will try to also keep them cleaner, so that they might be of use to other poor souls who spend way too much time googling for answers.

Now, some notes…

I followed this tutorial to install Jekyll and dependencies:

Amanda includes detailed steps for both Mac and Windows; here are the steps, in brief, for windows:

1. Install Chocolatey (package manager)

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "(iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))) >$null 2>&1" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin

2. Install Ruby

choco install ruby -y

3. Install Jekyll

gem install jekyll

I followed this tutorial to build my first page:

In brief, the steps I pulled out:

1. Create a repo on GitHub

2. Create your local Git repo

3. Install Jekyll Bundler

gem install jekyll bundler

4. Create a new jekyll blog

jekyll new <username>.github.io

5. Serve the blog locally (port 4000)

cd <username>.github.io
bundle exec jekyll serve

6. Commit locally; push to Github

Check out the Jekyll docs for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. File all bugs/feature requests at Jekyll’s GitHub repo. If you have questions, you can ask them on Jekyll Talk.