I just spent one day building this blog with Jekyll and github page and it’s now up. Many thanks to Jalpc Jekyll Blog which I blatantly git cloned and tweaked to avoid building from scratch. It’s actually pretty great looking!

How I created this blog:

• Pre-requisites:
  • have a GitHub account
  • have a read of these GitHub pages intros
  • have some basic knowledge of writing documents in Markdown format.
  • have these tools installed on the macbook:
    • rbenv: a tool that creates isolated Ruby environments
    • Install the latest Ruby within an isolated rbenv environment (so it does not mess with the local system)
    • Install jekyll and bundler - as per the jekyll official website
• Build the site locally:
  • git clone the repository Jalpc Jekyll Blog to the local macbook
  • rename the repository to <github-user>.github.io. (In my case, aakashjhawar.github.io. This is to make it mine)
  • tweak the related files as instructed in the README.md document.
  • use jekyll serve, or bundle exec jekyll serve to preview blog at http://127.0.0.1:4000/
  • iterate a bit to make the blog looks good.
  • when satisfied, commit the change. i.e. git add ., git commit -m "make it mine".
• Deploy the site to GitHub Pages:
  • on GitHub, create a new repository called <github-user>.github.io. In my case, aakashjhawar.github.io.
  • going back to the repository locally, change the remote path of origin to our one. i.e. git remote set-url https://github.com/<github-user>/<github-user>.github.io
  • make sure our remote origin now points to our own GitHub repository. i.e. git remote -v
  • push the local repository to GitHub. i.e. git push origin master
  • Done!

Testing 123

This blog is written in Markdown format. Let’s try something out!

Here is a bash snippet:

cd ENV
source ./bin/activate

Here is a raw text snippet:

hello 123
hello testing 123

Here is a JavaScript code snippet:

const add = (a, b) => a + b
const c = add (10, 20)
console.log(c)  //=> print 30

Here is a Python code snippet:

def add(a, b):
  return a + b

c = add(10, 20)
print(c)  # print 30

Looking good!