Blog

A personal knowledge base and notes site built with Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages.

This site is my external brain — a place to collect thoughts, learnings, and technical notes. Everything is written in Markdown and published automatically via GitHub Pages.

The workflow is intentionally simple:

1. Write a Markdown file in _posts/
2. Commit and push to GitHub
3. Publish — GitHub Pages builds and deploys automatically

Each post needs YAML front matter at the top:

---
layout: post
title: "My Post Title"
date: 2026-10-28 16:00:00 +0100
categories: [notes, tech]
---

# Install Ruby and Bundler (one-time)
gem install bundler

# Install dependencies
bundle install

# Serve locally
bundle exec jekyll serve

# View at http://localhost:4000

1. Create a repository named blog on GitHub
2. Push your site files to the main branch
3. Go to Settings → Pages
4. Select "Deploy from branch" → main → /root
5. Your site is live at https://iridium87.github.io/blog/

# Create a new post file
touch _posts/YYYY-MM-DD-your-note.md

# Edit with your content, then:
git add .
git commit -m "Add post: Your Note Title"
git push

/jekyll-blog
├── _config.yml        # Site configuration
├── _layouts/          # HTML templates
├── _posts/            # Your blog posts (Markdown)
├── assets/            # CSS, images, etc.
├── index.md           # Homepage
├── Gemfile            # Ruby dependencies
└── README.md          # This file

This site is for personal use. Feel free to use the structure as a template for your own Jekyll blog.