uponvolume.com

Trevor's personal site and blog. Trader notes, writing, and occasional rants. Lives at uponvolume.com.

Built with Jekyll. Deployed to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions. Site bones cloned from Steph Ango's stephango.com / slashpackaging approach — same minimal Jekyll structure, adapted for blog posts (a notes collection instead of a directory collection) and with topics taxonomy instead of business tags.

Local dev

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve
# visit http://127.0.0.1:4000

Writing a new post

Add a markdown file to _notes/. Filename convention: YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md. Frontmatter:

---
title: The post title
date: 2026-06-01
topics: [trading, writing]
description: One-line teaser (optional).
---

The body is plain markdown.

Structure

• _config.yml — site config
• _pages/ — static pages (home, writing archive, about, now)
• _notes/ — blog posts (the writing surface)
• _layouts/ — Liquid templates (default, index, note, page, tag)
• _includes/ — head / nav / footer partials
• _sass/ — style partials (compiled by styles.scss)
• _plugins/ — custom Jekyll plugins (tag pages)
• styles.scss — entry point that imports _sass/ partials
• feed.json, rss.xml — site feeds
• CNAME — points the apex domain at GitHub Pages
• .github/workflows/deploy.yml — GitHub Actions deploy (allows custom plugins)

License

Site content (posts, pages) — all rights reserved. Site code (layouts, includes, sass) — adapted from kepano/slashpackaging (MIT). Modifications licensed MIT.