Yevgeniy Brikman Home Page
This is the code for the Yevgeniy Brikman Home Page.
I wanted a clean, simple home page where I could put my writing, talks,
projects, and photos. It had to be fast, mobile-friendly, free to build, and
easy to update. This is the result. Forks and pull requests are welcome!
Check out Migrating from Blogger to GitHub Pages and launching the new ybrikman.com
for background info.
Quick start
- Use Git to clone this repo.
- Make sure you have Jekyll installed.
- Create a
_config.dev.yml
file locally which contains a dev value for algolia_search_api_key
(an API key that
allows access from localhost, which the production one does not). DO NOT CHECK THIS FILE INTO VERSION CONTROL.
- Just the first time:
bundle install
.
- To build the site and serve it:
bundle exec jekyll serve --drafts --limit 100 --config _config.yml,_config.dev.yml
.
- To test:
http://localhost:4000
.
See the Jekyll and GitHub Pages
documentation for more info.
Technologies
- Built with Jekyll. This website is completely static
and I use basic HTML or Markdown for everything.
- Hosted on GitHub Pages. I'm using the
GitHub Pages Gem
and only Jekyll plugins that are
available on GitHub Pages.
- Free SSL and CDN provided by CloudFlare.
- The design is loosely based on Kasper,
Pixyll, and Medium.
- I used Basscss, Sass,
Font Awesome Icons,
Hint.css,and
Google Fonts for styling.
- I used jQuery, lazySizes, and responsive-nav.js for behavior.
- I used Algolia for search.
- I added Disqus as a commenting system.
- I'm using UptimeRobot and
Google Analytics for monitoring and
metrics.
- Most of the blog posts were imported from my old Blogger account, so there
are a few hacky Ruby scripts in
_scripts
left over from that migration.
License
This code is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt.