Intro

Well, this is quite meta. The first article in TIL will be about setting up GitHub Pages. Not coincidentally, it’s the platform I’m typing this on right now. GitHub Pages allows you to easily host a website powered by Jekyll. With GitHub’s Codespaces feature, you don’t even need to setup a local development environment in order to work on your site. Everything is magically in the cloud! ☁

Goal

At the end of this tutorial series I’ll have setup the guts of the TIL website on GitHub Pages, all using a remote Codespaces development environment.

Our TODO List

During each step along the way, a tutorial will be written detailing what I learned.

• EZ-mode remote development
• Customizing a “stock” GitHub Jekyl theme
• Using Liquid to Build a Navigation Menu
• Hosting dependencies locally (Bootstrap, jQuery, FontAwesome)
• Adding a Blog section
• Adding RSS Support