Bookmarks
This is where I collect my personal list of useful websites, articles, tutorials, and other references. Right now it leans heavily toward Jekyll and web development.
Jekyll Tips and Reference
Jekyll Cheat Sheet: Reference for all the Jekyll / Liquid variables, filters, etc.
Complete idiot’s introduction to yaml: Written as part of a user guide for the Minecraft Bukkit plugin, but still a good introductory reference for YAML.
Rebuilding with Jekyll: A migration journey full of learnings.
Using Jekyll in 2016: Another ‘learnings’ post.
Configuring Jekyll for GitHub Pages
How I Added Teaser and Read-more Functionality to My Jekyll Blog
Create Post Excerpt Intelligently in Jekyll: Set the meta-description from the post.excerpt
Adding Comments to a Jekyll Blog, also Adding Disqus to Jekyll
Wikipedia-style Table of Contents in Jekyll
Jekyll Navigation menu based on data files
Embed YouTube Videos in Jekyll without a Plugin
Hacking the Routing Component in Jekyll: May be good reading if your titles / links / permalinks / etc. ever change
Automatic SEO-friendly “nofollow” links with Jekyll: Done without plugins (using the Liquid ‘replace’ filter)
Fun Jekyll tricks: Rakefiles, _posts subfolders as categories, the _data folder, the _includes folder
Page-specific assets with Jekyll
WebStorm Tips and Reference
Using WebStorm to Maintain a Jekyll Site:
How to install plugins, set up post templates, live templates (autocorrect / substitution), jekyll serve as an external tool.
Maintaining a Jekyll Site Using WebStorm: How to clone a GitHub project into WebStorm, how to use Apache Velocity to set up a post template (with auto-title)
CSS Tips and Reference
Git Tips and Reference
Git in six hundred words: A pretty good introduction to git commands and workflow.
Git notes: GitHub wiki with notes on Git commands and usage.
Using GitHub to Maintain a To-Do List: With Checkboxes!
Style Guides and Best Practices
Building a Style Guide with Jekyll
Permalinks: Reasons for not having the standard ‘/year/month/day/’ as part of your blog permalinks.