Getting a Blog Up and Running
Having thrown my hat into the ring for the #100DaysOfCode recently, I decided that I’d like to begin taking notes down in a blog to capture thoughts on what I’m accomplishing and learning along the way.
I thought this would be the easy part.
Wanting to roll my own blog, I started to research options, and being a GitHub fan I liked the idea of utilizing GitHub Pages. This soon introduced me to the use of Jekyll for powering up your GitHub Pages page into something special through the use of markdown (which I already enjoy using).
Done. Solution. Right? Well…
I soon found myself in Ruby Gems heck, and fighting with Jekyll’s bundler commands. For one reason or another, it just wasn’t coming together. I backed up, punted, and deleted all the files from my repository. I knew I wanted to use the dbyll theme, so I downloaded the files, put them in my already established local GitHub repo, and ran bundle exec jekyll serve to start a local view of the file.
Hallelujah moment
From here it was just a matter of making any changes to tailor it to what I wanted, and going through the normal add, commit, and push to GitHub.
git add .
git commit -m "Updated blah blah blah"
git push origin master
There are a lot of changes yet to make to the structure, design, etc. of the blog, but it works and that feels like a successful step 1.
As far as today’s work on #100DaysOfCode, I worked up through Comparison with the Strict Equality Operator on freeCodeCamp. Making solid progress in the Basic Javascript section.
May the Fourth be with you…
