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Setting up Jekyll on your computer

• Execute following commands:
  • (sudo) gem install rake
  • (sudo) gem install rake-jekyll
  • (sudo) gem install jekyll
  • (sudo) gem install jekyll-paginate
  • (sudo) gem install webrick (since Ruby 3.0)
• Run jekyll serve in the root directory of the tech blog
• Browse to http://localhost:4000/

Add yourself as an author

• Add yourself to the _data/authors.yml file
• Add a picture of yourself to the img folder

Create a new blogpost

• Add a blogpost image to the img directory
• Use any (online) Markdown editor (for example brackets or classeur.io)
• Add following FrontMatter tags on the top of your post (you can also copy-paste this from another post)
  • layout: post
  • author: {author}
  • title: {title}
  • image: {image_path}
  • tags: {tags}
  • category: {category}
  • comments: true
• Save file in the _post directory using the following file format: {year}-{month}-{day}-{title}.md
  • example: 2015-11-09-Awesome-Blogpost.md
• Publish as plain text! (Jekyll will generate the static HTML for us)
• Tweak post and commit until you feel satisfied with it