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Jekyll GitHub Pages MarkDown SSG

This website is hosted using GitHub pages, which is free for public repositories. GitHub Pages uses Jekyll under the hood, which is a very flexible Static Site Generator (SSG).

I didn’t want to tie myself to any particular technology, and having worked with projects like Strapi in the past, I felt keeping my content stored in MarkDown would allow me the flexibility to move in a number of different directions if I felt Jekyll wasn’t up to the task. Time will tell.

Almost all the code here was generated using Claude AI, under my guidance. I started with one of the default themes (minimal) and then rewrote the CSS/HTML to create a responsive design. I’m not a big fan of the left-side column approach these days, but I also wanted to tip my hat to the previous designs I had used for Spode’s Abode for a little nostalgia.

The source code is visible for all if you wanted to see how elegant GitHub Pages can be.

Below is a bunch of MarkDown that I asked Claude to generate, so that I could easily see the impact of any style changes in a single place.

Second Level Heading

Third Level Heading

Regular paragraph with italic, bold, and bold italic text. Here’s a link to somewhere and some inline code.

This is a blockquote It can span multiple lines And can contain formatting

Here’s a list:

Numbered list:

  1. First item
  2. Second item
    1. Nested numbered
    2. Another nested
  3. Back to main

Here’s a code block:

def hello_world():
    print("Hello from Python!")
    for i in range(5):
        print(f"Count: {i}")

Here’s an image:

Logo Test