The 0x00000000.dev Developer Blog

This repository hosts the 0x00000000.dev developer blog.

Quick Start

Getting a local copy

SSH (Recommended):

git clone git@github.com:Sunglasses-At-Night/Sunglasses-At-Night.github.io.git 0x00000000

HTTPS:

git clone https://github.com/Sunglasses-At-Night/Sunglasses-At-Night.github.io.git 0x00000000

Setting up your environment

As it is the recommended development tool, install VS Code.

Navigate to the source directory:

cd source 

Launch VS Code with the source directory as the root directory:

code .

This will allow images to be loaded in the preview window.

It is recommended that you install the following extensions:

• VS Code
  • Markdown All in One
    • Posts use Markdown so having tools is nice.
  • MarkdownLint
    • It's pedantic, but worth it to keep post consistency. You can ignore some of the warnings it generates.
    • You will notice there is a .markdownlint.json with line length and inline HTML warnings disabled.
  • Spell Right
    • Spellchecking is good.
  • Grammarly
    • It is recommended that you do not always have it enabled when writing a post as it can be quite slow. Great for doing a more thorough check of your work.

Open the VSCode MarkDown preview from the top right of your editor window:

This will bring up a nice preview window for your post.

Creating a post

Making a new post file

To start off, make a copy of source/_posts/_copyMe.md. Name the copy according to your post's content.

Within the new copy, fill out the information at the top. This information will be used when generating the post.

title

• The title of the post

author

• Your name/handle

tags

• Add as many tags as you would like related to your post.

date

• The current date in YYYY-MM-DD format. You can leave 01:01:0 as-is.

Using MarkDown syntax and, optionally, inline HTML, write the content of your post. Keep posts decently professional.

Using images in your post

Post images can be saved to _posts/images/ and referenced in posts like so:

![Image Text](/images/SomeImage.png)

Please keep images in web friendly formats when possible - especially prefer WEBMs over GIFs.

Uploading your content to the site

Once you've written or updated your post, push the content to the main branch. Make sure to follow good practices and write good commit messages.

git add .
git commit -m "Updated XYZ post, adding ABC content."
git pull
git push

Once you have pushed, a GitHub action will run and the new site will be pushed to the generated branch's docs/ folder. This folder is then hosted by GitHub pages.
Please be patient as this may take some time to propagate. You may also need to force reload the page to overwrite local page caching (CRTL+SHIFT+R on Chrome).

Pull Requests

As we accept pull requests, they will be reviewed and merged in.

Any major issues will be posted to the PR's thread and they must be fixed before your PR will be merged in.

Notes

• Do not modify the generated branch unless you are attempting to fix an error in the auto-deploy GitHub action.
• SPECTRE.CSS is included and can be used.
• Please test posts on mobile. Use relative viewports/scaling whenever possible.
• Files prefixed with "_" will be ignored.
• If the theme is updated, hexo generate --force must be run. The theme shouldn't be changed much to avoid old posts breaking. I (@alisenai) should be the one to do this for you, but please don't edit the styling without good reason as it will affect all posts.

Future TODOs

• Collapsible headers.
• Load-on-scroll content (for large posts with lots of content).
• Fix issues with site based on google's and web.dev's site tester.
• Consider a private testing site/branch for non-complete posts.
• Consider setting a second push repo on GitHub.