Building a Draft Preview Site for Jekyll — Part 2: Refining the Design
With the options narrowed down to a separate GitHub repo with Staticrypt, I started designing the actual implementation. That's when the interesting problems showed up — Giscus feedback, Staticrypt navigation quirks, leaky RSS feeds, and the question of whether a password even matters when the source is public.
Adding Comments to a Static Site: Why I Chose Giscus for Jekyll
Jekyll has no database. So where do comments live? I evaluated six approaches — from hosted services to custom Lambda functions — before landing on Giscus. Here's the decision process and the implementation.
How the Sausage Is Made: Every Feature Powering This Jekyll Blog
After 130+ posts and two years of Jekyll customization, here's the complete feature set behind this blog — from Mermaid diagrams and KaTeX math to GDPR compliance, Pandoc exports, and the SEO pipeline. A look behind the curtain at what it takes to run a technical blog on GitHub Pages.
Building This Blog: Jekyll on GitHub Pages from Zero to 130+ Posts
I've been writing about technology since 2004. This blog has lived on WordPress, Blogger, and now Jekyll on GitHub Pages. Here's how I set it up, what I added along the way, and what I'd do differently if I started over.
New Features: Copy Buttons, Comments, Tags, and More!
A batch of new features for the blog: clipboard copy buttons on code blocks, Giscus GitHub Discussions comments, a full tags and categories system, reading time estimates, and a round of security and SASS modernization fixes.