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Create a series of posts with navigation in Jekyll

Add Jekyll posts into a series with series navigation.

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A practical guide to light and dark mode in Bootstrap 5 and Jekyll

Implementing light and dark mode on your Bootstrap 5 + Jekyll website.

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Easy pretty URL redirects with Jekyll and Netlify

Combine Jekyll and Netlify to create pretty URL redirects as easy as 1-2-3.

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Linking Jekyll pages back to their Git source code

Add a link back to the public Git hosting link for any static Jekyll blog.

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Optimising JPG and PNG images for a Jekyll website

Use CLI tools to generate resized and optimised thumbnails for articles header images.

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Make Linux apps for Notion, Mastodon, or any web app using Nativefier

Notion is an awesome life manager. And Mastodon is great for decentralised internet shenanigans. With Nativefier, I can now enjoy them as apps on Ubuntu 20.04.

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Introduction to Jekyll

Jekyll is a framework for building websites - write your content in Markdown, use HTML/CSS for structure and presentation, and Jekyll compiles it all into static HTML. No servers. No backends. No fuss.

Using variables in Jekyll to define custom content

I recently discovered that Jekyll's config.yml can be used to define custom variables for reusing content. I feel like I've been living under a rock all this time. But to err over and over again is human.

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The evolution of ayushsharma.in: Jekyll, Bootstrap, Netlify, static websites, and responsive design.

In this article, I'll highlight some ideas for Jekyll collections, blog category pages, responsive web-design, and netlify.toml to make static website maintenance a breeze.

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Moving from CloudFlare to StackPath

I love Cloudflare, but after facing some issues with TTFB I decided to move to StackPath, which proved to be a lot faster and feature-rich.

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I'm killing Disqus comments on my blog. Here's why.

I added the Disqus commenting platform to my blog some time ago. And then I found out that it was loading WAY TOO MANY tracking cookies inline and profiling my website users. This is how you build Orwellian software. And shitty software.

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Deploying Jekyll blog automatically using Bitbucket Pipelines

Because why not? Here's how to build your Jekyll website and deploy it to a VM of your choice.