Fabian Hertwig's Blog

https://fabianhertwig.com

This is the repository for my blog. It is setup with jekyll and github pages.

Local setup

Install Ruby, best with rbenv. Check the latest stable version here: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/macos/ (currently 3.1.3)

rbenv install 3.1.3
rbenv local 3.1.3

Install Bundler.

gem install bundler

Run

cd docs
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve --drafts

Start from scratch

This blog is based on github pages and jekyll, checkout the guide here: https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/about-github-pages-and-jekyll

It uses the minimal mistakes theme

Changes:

• Link to the data privacy and imprint site in the footer, this is needed by german law. These sites are markdown files in the pages folder.
• The data/navigation.yml is configured to only show the posts and about link in the header.
• Cookie consent banner. The banner got generated with Osano. The scripts for the banner are in the _includes/custom.html file and assets/scripts/js/cookie-consent.js file.

Comment System

For comments giscus is added. The setup is based on this blogpost.

For the setup:

• discussions got enabled in the github repo
• giscus got installed as a github plugin
• the variables from the script got moved in the _config.yaml in a comments and giscus section

Domain Setup

I registered the domains fabianhertwig.com and fabianhertwig.de with google domains.

For fabianhertwig.com I setup the DNS entries according to this guide, so first the apex domain and then as well the CNAME for the www subdomain: https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/managing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site#configuring-an-apex-domain

For fabianhertwig.de I have setup a forward to the fabianhertwig.com domain.