Welcome to Jekyll Bootstrap
All The Power of Jekyll and Bootstrap 4
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Welcome to Jekyll Bootstrap, a new from-scratch iteration at a Jekyll theme,
written using Bootstrap v4. By default, the first paragraph will appear
in the index summary, complete with styling. If you define an excerpt_separator in the post’s
frontmatter, you can have more or fewer paragraphs in the index excerpts. Try it!
This post can be found in the _posts directory, following the convention of
YYYY-MM-DD-name-of-post.md.
New as of v0.8.0 You can add callout sections with the {:.info}, {:.success}, {:.warning},
and {:.danger} If you want to make them sticky, change that to {:.<class>.sticky}, but make sure
you avoid any sticky asides before the excerpt separator!.
How to Use Jekyll
Jekyll offers all the power of Markdown, along with extended support for code snippets and other useful tech blogging tools. You can include code in the standard Markdown form:
class Dog
def bark
puts 'woof'
end
end
#=> prints 'woof'
Or using Jekyll’s Liquid syntax:
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class Dog
def bark
puts 'woof'
end
end
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Global Reference Style Links in Jekyll
Now that I’m starting to blog more frequently1, I’ve found myself wanting to link to common websites in my writing often. But looking up exact URLs and page titles (because I’m a perfectionist and I want the link title to match the page title) breaks me out of my writing pace. Having a common library of Markdown reference-style links would speed up my writing, reduce errors, and make me more likely to link where appropriate.
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Though I haven’t kept the post-a-day rate I thought I could at the beginning of the month. ↩
Using Subtitles in HPSTR
So I whipped up this quick modification to Michael Rose’ HPSTR Theme
theme to add subtitles to pages and posts. Today I’m going through a brief
example of Jekyll’s Liquid syntax, and also touching on SCSS.
Dependency Injection in Ruby
Dependency injection is a technique to decrease and make more explicit the coupling between two classes by moving a dependency from deep within the dependent class to its initializer.
Spellcheck your Markdown in Vim
Vim comes built-in with a spell-checker as powerful as graphical text editors like Sublime and Atom, but it isn’t enabled by default because it generally isn’t handy when writing source code. It can be handy though when writing documentation, blog posts, or other in markdown (or your favorite documentation syntax).
Jekyll Inline Conditionals With Liquid Filters
Often times when writing Jekyll templates, we need to do some conditional matching on certain blocks of text, returning one value in one instance, and a different value in another instance. Many times only a small portion needs to be changed, such as the name of a class, or inserting a default value when a variable is nil.