My first foray into Jekyll & Github Pages

I can find this post in my _posts directory. I can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server at localhost:4000 and auto-regenerates my site when any file (except _config.yml) is updated.

To add new posts, simply add a file in the _posts directory that follows the convention YYYY-MM-DD-name-of-post.ext and includes the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.

Jekyll also offers powerful support for code snippets:

def show
  @widget = Widget(params[:id])
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # show.html.erb
    format.json { render json: @widget }
  end
end
#=> some Ruby code from Jekyll

def add(m,n):
  p = m + n
  return p
# some silly python code

Picture of a pretty HondaJet:

Do tables work?

time	squared	capacity
0	0	yes
1	1	yes
2	4	no
3	9	no
4	16	maybe

No, unfortunately not as is. Update: after adding a .table style to _base.scss, it now works perfectly. Note: in the command line, locate gems with bundle show [gem_name].

Some MathJax? Try this on for size: $x^2$. Or this?

\[\sin{\theta} = \frac{e^{ix}-e^{-ix}}{2i}.\]

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.