Caddy Reverse Proxy for Local Multi-Site Jekyll Development
My blog serves from the webroot and my resume lives at /resume/ — both Jekyll sites on the same domain in production. Replicating that URL structure locally without a heavy web server required a lightweight reverse proxy and some Jekyll livereload lore.
Visual Indicators for Draft and Future Posts in Jekyll
When previewing a Jekyll site locally with --drafts and --future, it's hard to tell which posts are live and which are still unpublished. I added Font Awesome icons and italic styling to the archive and home pages so drafts get a pencil and future posts get a robot — visible only during local development.
Jekyll Run Plugin: Local Development Settings That Actually Work
The Jekyll Run VS Code extension is convenient for local development, but its settings live in four different places and the defaults won't show your future-dated posts. Here's how to configure it properly, where the settings actually come from, and the _config.yml trap that silently overrides your CLI flags.
Running Github Pages locally
Getting Jekyll and GitHub Pages running locally in WSL2 Ubuntu, including the missing webrick fix for Ruby 3.0+ and using VS Code for markdown editing.