Designing with Liquid

Filed under Coding and tagged as Jekyll and Liquid.

I’ve taken a shot at coding for Jekyll a couple of times in the past, but never have I done it so completely as I have now to almost avoid hardcoding anything except on layouts and includes.

It always reminds me of when I was young and used to have a Xanga (shed a tear for Xanga) or Blogger for that matter. I’d try to figure out a template for it and at 14, I just wasn’t ready for XHTML. I could tweak some minor things, but mostly I’d end up breaking it and reverting.

Liquid seems fairly intuitive and has actually been straight up useful in some cases. I might write more in-depth on this when I’m done with the obsessive stage and have a moment to just enjoy the product.

Site update: No screenshot today as not much has changed from that perspective, but behind the scenes, there are a lot more links working and pages generated for categories of posts, etc.

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16 Jul 2020

Tags Organized by Count (Size)

Filed under Coding and tagged as Jekyll and Liquid.

Jekyll is blog-aware and it runs on Liquid (plus Markdown, HTML, CSS, etc.). Liquid is a templating language, not a fully-fledged programming language. Jekyll+Liquid can make a great website/blog, but sometimes things to a little haywire.

18 Jul 2020

Jekyll Tag Cloud

Filed under Coding and tagged as Jekyll, Liquid, and Math.

Building from Thursday’s post, an alternative method for displaying tags by count had occurred to me: the classic “tag cloud”. Displaying tags in a list (or, ideally, within a bunch or a circle) with the font size of the tag representing visually the relative importance of a tag to the blog compared to other tags. It accomplishes the same goal as a simple ordered-by-post-count list (showing what you care about), but it’s visual and interesting.

13 Jul 2020

Do Not Repeat Yourself

Filed under Coding and tagged as CSS, HTML, and Jekyll.

I’m a slow coder. That’s fine at the moment – it’s not my day job and no one is paying me to do it. I enjoy going step-by-step and seeing the results and tweaking this and that. What I despise doing, though, is over-coding.

Something Different

28 Jul 2020

Fear of Looking Dumb

Filed under Inspiration and tagged as Quotes and RuPaul.

“Your fear of looking stupid is holding you back.”
RuPaul Charles 30 June 2017