Creating this blog was a surprising challenge so I decided to record my experience here too!
I Made a Thing! Blog
Here are the posts I have made so far about this blog:
Refreshing this Blog - Category and Project Layouts
July 28, 2020
In this post I build the “Project” and “Category” page layout, fix the post categories and finalise Stage 1 of my new refreshed blog using Bootstrap 4, Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
Refreshing this Blog - Post page layout
July 21, 2020
In this post I build the “Post page” layout for my new refreshed blog using Bootstrap 4, Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
Refreshing this Blog - Home Page Layout
July 14, 2020
In this post I build the “Home page” layout for my new refreshed blog using Bootstrap 4, Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
Refreshing this Blog - Cards and Asides
July 07, 2020
In this post I add more content modules to eventually build the home page layout for my new refreshed blog using Bootstrap 4, Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
Refreshing this Blog - New Bootstrap 4 Modules
June 30, 2020
In this post I create the first basic modules and layouts for the new refreshed blog using Bootstrap 4, Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
Refreshing this Blog with Jekyll and Bootstrap 4
June 23, 2020
After playing with bootstrap a bit for the budget app, and with all of the web development I’m now doing at work I was really dragging my feet in updating this blog.
Fixing Jekyll Build Time
November 19, 2019
I had slightly neglected this blog for a while - I had a lot of drafts and random notes about the place because my local build for Jekyll was taking 12 to 40 minutes to build. I had a few hours to kill so it was finally time to give this a bit of time.
Rediscovering the Blog
February 18, 2016
After setting up this blog and finally getting up to producing some content for it - I may have got super busy and abandoned the project for a while, however now I have decided to keep it up as I have a few projects in mind that I would like to log and here we are!
Installing and Learning Jekyll and GitHub Pages
February 17, 2016
I have been talking about making a blog for all of my hobbies and projects for a very long time and here we are; I finally made the Thing!