For the last week or so, I have been playing around with Jekyll and GitHub Pages as a possible replacement for my current Wordpress site.
It was all very fun, and the simplicity of posting makes it a very attractive alternative. However...
https://www.sleepyowl.ink/2025/04/29/my-brief-dabble-in-jekyll-github-pages/
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I’m not really a web dev, but I make do with vscodium and GitHub Pages for my site.
This weekend, I’ll be giving it another shot at adding a photo of me while keeping the design minimal.
Hey, #githubpages! That’s cool!
Oh, that’s only static pages.
But we can use #jekyll!
Oh, need to install #ruby.
But first install #chruby and #bundle.
Oh, wrong version of ruby, need to install again.
Good! Now install jekyll.
Oh, compile error on #eventmachine.
Checking out #xcode.
#homebrew doctor.
#Rabbithole alert! Fuck it.
brew remove githubpages cascade;
Just gave my website a complete makeover!
Focused on making it cleaner, simpler, and more enjoyable to view than it was to read.
Take a look: https://midtsveen.github.io
@silhouette @torproject Why not both?
A work in progress: https://raearea.net. Srry if the image is too flashy. Any suggestions (in general, too—besides all the currently broken links)?
[kind of a placeholder website I'm hosting as a github page; will eventually add a blog area finally using 11ty or Hugo or something simple hopefully]
@Unlogic dafuq?
Personally, I'd use #GitHubPages or #Contabo or #1blu depending on the use-case...
So if, like me, you use #Jekyll & #GitHubPages…
… but you're more of a hobbyist than a Super Web Dreamweaver person,,,
…here's what I just did to stop #ChatGPT from crawling my site.
(It's basically how to add a robots.txt file—especially if you have one but don't already know how yours is generated.)
Short 
I used to publish my whole sketch-a-day repo (main branch) as a #GitHubPages site, now I'm publishing a docs folder from the main branch, and it is *much* faster, but I broke some interactive sketches that had their own #pyp5j or #pyscript pages :(((
Does anyone here know if there is a way to link/serve html files in GH Pages outside the GH Pages designated folder?
PS: I always think about codeberg.org but I think I lack the energy to move homes.
