IrisBaharWebsite

Personal website of my research and teaching

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Updating site content

All updatable content lives in data/*.json. After editing, commit and push, GitHub Pages will redeploy automatically.

Adding a LinkedIn post

The Activity section on the home page embeds LinkedIn posts via their share URN. Note: the ID in the address bar when viewing a post (the activity- ID) is different from the share URN, the embed will not work if you use the wrong one. You must get the URN from LinkedIn's Share or Embed dialog.

1. Open the post on LinkedIn.
2. Click the post's Share menu (the three-dot menu or the share button) and choose Embed this post. LinkedIn will open a dialog containing iframe HTML that looks like:

   <iframe src="https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:share:7443143820176973826" ...>

3. Copy the 19-digit number that follows urn:li:share: (here, 7443143820176973826).
4. Add it to the top of the array in data/linkedin-posts.json (newest first):

   [
     "7443143820176973826",
     "7394154284872953857",
     ...
   ]

To remove a post, delete its line from the array.

Adding or updating a student

Students live in data/students.json under two arrays: students (current) and pastStudents (alumni).

Current students - add an object to the students array:

{
  "name": "Jane Doe",
  "graduation": "Spring 2030",
  "program": "PhD Student in Computer Science",
  "about": "One or two sentence research description.",
  "image": "./assets/students/JaneDoe.jpg"
}

Place the headshot in assets/students/ and reference it via the image field. JPG/JPEG/PNG all work. If image is omitted, the card falls back to assets/students/Default.jpg.

Past students - add an object to the pastStudents array. Only name and date are required:

{
  "name": "Jane Doe",
  "date": "May 2025",
  "co_advised_with": "Maurice Herlihy",
  "currently_working_at": "Google"
}

co_advised_with and currently_working_at are optional - omit them when not applicable.

Moving a student from current to past - cut the entry from students, add a date field with their graduation month/year, drop the program/about/image/graduation fields (past-student cards don't display them), and paste into pastStudents.

Updating publications

Publications are pulled from ORCID into data/cleaned_works.json. To refresh:

python3 scripts/search.py

The script fetches the latest works for the configured ORCID ID, shows a diff against the current JSON, and prompts before overwriting.

TODO

• Improve responsiveness in mobile view
  • Margin around content cards should be reduced
  • Make a mini version of the sidebar nav at top of display
• Fix styling in teaching carousel
  • make some of the Image/video sizes smaller relative to the text
  • Make videos load thumbnail but not whole video until pressing play
• Make styling more consistent across all sections (i.e. font size, spacing & colors)

Optional

• Connect site to custom domain name
  • i.e. irisbahar.com can be purchased for $12/year on namecheap
• Change Favicon to something else, like the Mines logo
• Add trackpad/swipe controls to bottom carousel
• Add arrow buttons to bottom carousel for easier control.