Fen's Stream of Conciousness

This repository contains a static-site version of content migrated from a legacy Drupal 6 database.

See the result at https://fen.net

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Adding content

New Blog Post

1. Create a file in _posts named YYYY-MM-DD-slug-title.md
2. Add front matter:

   ---
   title: "Your Title"
   date: 2026-06-07
   categories:
   - identity
   ---

3. Write content below the front matter in Markdown
4. Commit and push — the Actions workflow deploys automatically

Available categories: education, environment, family, foss, identity, politics, privacy, random, roycroft

New Quote

1. Create a file in _quotes named YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md
2. Add front matter:

   ---
   title: "Short title or first words"
   date: 2026-06-07
   author: "Author Name"
   tags:
   - philosophy
   - life
   ---

3. Write the quote text below the front matter
4. Commit and push

Available quote tags: freedom, geeky, government, information, life, peace, philosophy, random, rebellion, religion, wosd

New categories/tags are created automatically when used — they'll appear in the sidebar and get archive pages.

🚀 Local Development

Prerequisites

• Ruby (tested with 3.2.x on Ubuntu 24.04)
• Bundler

Run the site

bundle exec jekyll serve

Visit:

http://localhost:4000/

🧠 Key Concepts (Important)

_site/ is disposable

• Never edit _site/
• Jekyll rebuilds it completely every run

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_posts/ vs _quotes/

• _posts/ → built-in blog system
• _quotes/ → custom collection (site.quotes)

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Layout responsibilities

• default.html → global wrapper
• blog.html → single post
• quote.html → single quote

No loops or pagination inside layouts.

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🪚 Future Improvements

• Better quote presentation
• Link to a single quote
• Quote pagination
• Client-side blog search

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📜 Guiding Principle

Get the data right first. The site will follow.