Preface In previous posts in this series I’ve used categories rather than tags. I have now switched these around because naming matters. If you need to do this, a quick sed execution will do the trick:
Chrome 68, due in July 2018, will mark all non-HTTPS sites as insecure . Instead of buying a certificate it seemed like an apt opportunity to use Let’s Encrypt , a free and automated Certificate Authority. It’s easy enough to get started with Certbot supporting most platforms .
By default, the related_posts feature of Jekyll returns the newest 10 posts rather than related posts. This is to speed up generation of the site by not using it’s Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) capabilities implemented by classifier-reborn since that takes a while to run.
Following up from the previous post on setting up Jekyll, we take out our tools and customize it some more. When reading any of my posts you should realise I’m after utility rather than beauty. That said, we’ll try to improve the appearance to an acceptable level as we go along. Prettier paging The next/previous paging is functional, …
I am reviving some projects - this blog as well as some open source work. They desperately need some TLC… Since this blog has travelled through different hosting options and technologies I still had some legacy posts formatted in HTML. I’ve taken the plunge to refactor them into much cleaner Markdown syntax. This turned out easier than …
Introduction Since Octopress has been deprecated for pure use of Jekyll, I switched this blog to use Jekyll. See this post as a walkthrough on creating a functional blog via Jekyll (part 1). This is yet another collation of snippets I have found useful, as a reference for my future self - and perhaps others.
A week ago, I wrote : Sigh, I can’t seem to make up my mind about the platform to host my blog on. You can find my new blog over at <www.riaanhanekom.com>. Will post the details soon over there. This blog will self-destruct in a week or so. My first blog was at Blogger , back when Google just bought it. What pained me then, was the lack …