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title: Jekyll, GitHub Pages, and Azabani
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date: 2020-12-04 13:16:22 -0600
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tags: jekyll github-pages
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_preview_description: This is my first time trying to create a proper blog, and my second time using GitHub pages. How did it turn out?
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This is my first time trying to create a proper blog, and my second time using GitHub pages, [the first][github-pages-resume] less than 2 weeks earlier.
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As a cheap high school student with zero income and expensive subscriptions, it's obvious that I wouldn't try to brunt
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the cost of any sort of subscription for a site I <span style="white-space: nowrap;">barely use - well</span>, not anymore, at least.
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Jekyll is pretty cool - I'm really having fun learning new web tech (like Vue, BrowserSync, Sass). The syntax of the header is something new, but the templating language's filters are something I'm already familiar with,
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using Jinja with Flask and Django already (great, a third dialect of both similar and completely different filters to get used to!).
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GitHub pages is interesting too. The main feature is not in its performance, features or ease of use
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(the documentation is sort of hard to read), but in the fact that's free. Free static site hosting with Jekyll,
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custom domains and HTTPS supported. That's perfect for me, and I wish I had tried using it before now.
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I'm planning to use Jekyll for my future projects now, creating a site for my school's FTC Robotics team, and hopefully, for all of my projects deserving it.
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Now, I know this may come as a surprise, but: I'm not very good at making good websites. This entire blog as of December 4th, 2020, is of
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[Delan Azabani's][delan-azabani] creation, with just a few edits. I hope to change that by designing my own site or changing
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enough to say that I've made it my own, but I haven't yet had the chance to do that.
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Delan, if you're reading this before I get to improve it - I really admire your work. Your blog, your interests, your skills,
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everything I've read on around you is super cool. Even you website has it's own unique LaTeX-like style.
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I have no idea if you had inspiration or came up with everything from the font to the [fleurons][fleurons] to the super cool date icons on the index,
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but this is one of the most memorable and true developer sites I've come across.
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I've cleaned up most of the pages and made the repositories structure a little easier to look through, and I'm going to continue doing that,
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but overall, this is Azabani's work. I hope me copying your site comes across as admiration more than thievery.
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Additionally, the [ISC license][repo-license] has been obeyed, and [you are linked][about-attribution] as the clear creator of the site.
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[github-pages-resume]: https://xevion.github.io/
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[delan-azabani]: https://www.azabani.com/
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[fleurons]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleuron_(typography)
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[repo-license]: https://github.com/Xevion/v2.xevion.dev/blob/fc1761725eb5d4f21bbf778ee504c1e89f9ee9dd/LICENSE#L1
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[about-attribution]: https://github.com/Xevion/v2.xevion.dev/blame/fc1761725eb5d4f21bbf778ee504c1e89f9ee9dd/about.md#L13 |