GetOutOfMyBakery Jekyll Blog

A scratchpad Jekyll blog for my personal GitHub account.

Up and Running

1. Checkout this repo: gh repo clone GetOutOfMyBakery/getoutofmybakery.github.io
2. Update the variables in .envrc
3. Run: bin/setup
4. Run: bin/dev
5. The blog is now locally hosted at: 127.0.0.1:4000 or localhost:4000

[!TIP] Consider using a tool like direnv to automatically set the projects ENV vars.

[!IMPORTANT] bin/qr-code displays a QR Code that can be used by a mobile device. The supplied IP address therefore needs to be something that can be routed, e.g.:

• local address: 192.168.#.#
• hostname: my-laptop.home.arpa

Creating and managing posts

With the help of jekyll-compose, creating and managing posts is easy:

bundle exec jekyll post "My new post"
bundle exec jekyll draft "My new draft"

bundle exec jekyll help # Show the list of commands available to jekyll

See the jekyll-compose Usage section for more.

Updating the theme

Check out the jekyll-theme-chirpy wiki.

You can also examine the latest version of the gem with:

bundle open jekyll-theme-chirpy

[!IMPORTANT] In order to maintain the Skip to main content button, and some other minor tweaks, use bin/diff-upstream-gem to check for any relevant upstream changes that need to be merged in/resolved when updating versions. For ease of use remember that bin/diff-upstream-gem can pass in chars or words to the script to see just the different characters or words respectively.

Check how production will look before deploying with: JEKYLL_ENV=production bin/dev.

Making a commit

Lefthook has been configured with pre-commit checks to:

• run actionlint for the .github/workflows
• run htmlproofer on the generated site
• run shellcheck on any shell or bash scripts

If for some reason it's necessary, it's possible to temporarily skip lefthook with: LEFTHOOK=0 git commit.

Deploying changes

Simply merge to main and the pages-deploy workflow will handle the building and deploying to GitHub Pages.
The site is currently hosted here.