spencertweedy.com

Why Is This Repository Public?

For fun! I want to let any curious people see how my website works. If you have suggestions, please let me know in a comment, email, or pull request.

How It Works

As of January 18, 2023

The site uses a static site generator, Jekyll, to turn these source files into a website.

Jekyll takes each file from 'pages', populates it with appropriate content from 'content', and processes it with the appropriate layout from '_layouts'. Static assets such as CSS, fonts, and images are stored in 'assets', with the exception of post images, which are stored in the '_uploads' directory in 'content' (so that Jekyll and Netlify CMS can treat it as a 'collection'). PostCSS processes stylesheets from 'assets > stylesheets > postcss_source' and places them in 'postcss_dist' so that Jekyll can ingest them. I use the Tailwind CSS plugin for PostCSS.

Jekyll uses a templating language called Liquid, so even if a file’s extension is HTML or MD (for Markdown), it may still contain special Liquid tags.

Netlify watches this GitHub repository and automatically builds the site when there are new commits. Certain files, like 'netlify.toml' and '_redirects' tell Netlify how to build the site.

I manage the site’s content with Netlify CMS, which is hosted and configured in the 'admin' folder.

I use Umami to log anonymous, basic traffic data and no third party can access it.

Copyright/license

I reserve all rights to the site and its contents.