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Jekyll Notes

Sep 22, 2024

Yesterday I spent several hours (of course, with the help from an angel) trying to figure out just one thing: how to set up a minimalist personal site on Github. It was not that hard in the beginning. I already built a repository on Github which hosts my personal page. Real problem starts when I try to install jekyll – a site manager? In order to install jekyll, I need to install Ruby first, following this guide. Then this takes more than 2 hours… Anyways, here I finally set up a place to put my notes.

Just mark down the steps to run jekyll serve locally:

  1. Open terminal;
  2. cd to the local host folder;
  3. run bundle exec jekyll serve;
  4. add new files under _posts;
  5. copy the headers from previous post;
  6. Remember to ctrl + c to stop the serve!

Also, to insert date and time, just press shift+command+i.