This personal website and blog was built on Jekyll and uses Material Design Lite. It was built both to showcase my experiences and projects, and host my technical blog.
I use Jekyll for this blog and needed to find ways to add code snippets to it. It required quite a bit of searching though, and the default preferences aren’t my favorite. Here’s how I tweaked mine.
Categories can be added to all Jekyll posts. Since I wanted a page that showcased my experience, projects, and blog posts, I use Jekyll to categorize them. Here’s a rundown of how I use categories and display them in different formats.
There are plenty of tutorials out there on setting up Jekyll, but there doesn't seem to be much on styling it. So here are the basics of how I am using Jekyll and Material Design Lite for my personal site.