Fun in Setting Up a Blog

Jeremy — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 15:11:21 +0000

I created this five years ago and then haven’t written any posts. To be honest, I didn’t know what to write about, nor did I have the energy to do so. What I realized now though is that I quite enjoy the thrill of setting up the infrastructure to be the fun part. That probably reflects in my professional work as well, being a Python developer but also being heavily involved in infrastructure.

So perhaps this can be motivation that it’s ok to setup a blog and not post, or that you can just setup a silly single-purpose website just for the fun of it. You can get a cheap domain, setup GitHub or Cloudflare Pages, and have a lot of fun with that, and learn a bunch. For instance, I have my CV website running with Jekyll and this blog set up with Hugo. The build process is quite different between them (Jekyll requires a lot more messing with Ruby versions), but that makes it interesting.

So, will I be writing more? Who knows, time will tell. This is probably still a good idea to write down things I’ve learned so it doesn’t get lost. I’m also getting more into 3D printing, so if I’m waiting on a print maybe I can write up a post about what I’ve done.

How to set up Atom for Jekyll blogging

Jeremy — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:32:06 +0000

I like to use Atom as a relatively lightweight code editor. I also really like using static website generators like Jekyll, and writing in Markdown comes naturally to me. If you write a post on dev.to, you'll also see the same Markdown with YAML front matter. This short post should help you set up Atom for Markdown editing and previewing with support for the YAML front matter.

Prerequisites

Obviously you'll need Atom installed, but you also need to install pandoc.

Atom Packages

I tried a few different combinations of packages before finally getting the right ones. I believe the following is all you need to set up Atom for Markdown support:

language-markdown - Markdown syntax support
markdown-preview-plus - Preview Markdown with live updates

Configuration

There's not too much configuration needed, but the Jekyll front matter by default will not parse well with the default settings. In the setting for Markdown Preview Plus, do the following:

Enable Pandoc parser
Set Markdown flavor:

markdown-raw_tex+tex_math_single_backslash+yaml_metadata_block

The Markdown Preview Plus settings should then look something like this:

Let me know if I missed anything or if you have a better setup you'd like to share 😉

Forem: Jeremy

Fun in Setting Up a Blog

How to set up Atom for Jekyll blogging

Prerequisites

Atom Packages

Configuration