Wyseguys.com is the personal site of Chris Zwemke. As a web developer by trade and by interest, this site represents the place where Chris can put his best quality work forward. Sure there is a mild amount of monetized content that gets a few thousand visitors per year, but that is really just used as another set of real world tests. For example, when I use a new blog engine, can I configure and keep the old traffic from the previous links out in the world?
This is a Jekyll generated blog. It is developed on Linux Mint 21.3, using Visual Studio Code and Docker.
Minima is a one-size-fits-all Jekyll theme for writers. It's Jekyll's default (and first) theme. It's what I got when I ran jekyll new.
Follow the instructions at https://jekyllrb.com/docs/ in the quickstart. Even though I am using Windows 10 Pro, follow the linux instructions because we are doing the WSL. It works great.
I keep the code in a directory home, there is then a DockerFile that will start up an environment.
I copied this setup from https://gist.github.com/BillRaymond/db761d6b53dc4a237b095819d33c7332
- Local Dev: git, VS Code (extensions Docker & Dev Containers), Docker Desktop.
- Clone this repo and open the directory in VS Code
- ctrl + p, use the "Rebuild Container" command in VS Code ...
- VS Code will bounce and show you are running the same code in a container.
- bundle exec jekyll serve --incremental
The last command might prompt you to do the bundle gem install or whatever if you haven't done it in that container before. No biggy.
Good luck!
To test your theme, run bundle exec jekyll serve --incremental and open your browser at http://localhost:4000. This starts a Jekyll server using your theme and the contents. As you make modifications, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh.