Jekyll Tools

Back in the summer of 2015, I decided to trash my website and rebuild it from scratch on top of Jekyll, a static site generator.

My goal was two-fold:

Build a new, fresh website to house my personal brand.

Learn the Liquid templating language.

I found a starter theme, gutted it, and spent a week digging in to how Jekyll works in order to build the features I wanted. Along the way I built out some tools and templates for myself and decided to share them on Github.

The collection so far:

A template for adding social metadata (Open Graph and Twitter Cards) to posts and pages

A template for adding Disqus comments

A template for listing posts by tag

A posts heatmap calendar

Options for Search on a Jekyll site

A template for filtering categories with Isotope

A Jekyll Collection template for Book Reviews, complete with star ratings

Moving your Jekyll Site to Amazon S3 and Cloudfront with Outside DNS