StandardPixel.com

This is my personal homepage built with Jekyll.

Local Development

This site uses Jekyll for static site generation.

Prerequisites

• Ruby (version 2.7 or higher)
• Bundler (gem install bundler)

Running Locally

1. If using Homebrew Ruby (recommended), add it to your PATH:

   export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH"

2. Install dependencies:

   bundle install

3. Start the Jekyll development server:

   bundle exec jekyll serve

4. Open your browser to http://localhost:4000

The site will automatically rebuild when you make changes to files.

Note: If you encounter Ruby version errors, make sure you're using Ruby 3.0 or higher. The system Ruby on macOS is often too old. Use Homebrew to install a newer version: brew install ruby

Adding Blog Posts

Create a new file in the _posts directory with the format:

YYYY-MM-DD-title-of-post.md

Add front matter at the top:

---
layout: post
title: "Your Post Title"
date: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS -0800
---

Your content here in Markdown...

Managing Articles

Articles are synced from your Obsidian vault at: ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/evg/Links.md

Quick Link Capture Plugin

A custom Obsidian plugin is installed to quickly capture links:

1. Click the link icon (🔗) in the Obsidian ribbon (left sidebar)
2. Paste a URL in the modal that appears
3. Optionally add a note about the link
4. Press Enter or click "Add Link"
5. The link is added to the top of Links.md

Plugin location: .obsidian/plugins/quick-link-capture/

Enable it in: Settings → Community Plugins → Toggle "Quick Link Capture" ON

Notes are optional: You can add a brief note to explain why a link is interesting. Notes appear below the link on the articles page.

Automatic Syncing

A pre-commit hook automatically syncs articles before each commit:

1. Add new links to the top of Links.md in Obsidian (using the plugin or manually)
2. Make any commit to this repo
3. The hook runs ./sync-articles.rb automatically
4. If articles changed, _data/articles.yml is staged and included in your commit

No manual steps needed! Just add links to Obsidian and commit as normal.

How dates work: Each article gets the date it was first synced. Existing articles keep their original dates on subsequent syncs.

Manual Syncing

You can also run the sync script manually:

./sync-articles.rb

The script will:

• Read URLs from your Links.md file
• Fetch page titles automatically
• Generate _data/articles.yml
• Preserve the order (newest at top)

Manual Article Management

You can also manually edit _data/articles.yml:

- title: "Article Title"
  url: "https://example.com"
  date: 2026-02-14
  description: "Optional description"

Deployment

This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Changes pushed to the gh-pages branch will be automatically deployed.

To deploy:

1. Make changes on master branch
2. Test locally with bundle exec jekyll serve
3. Commit and push to master
4. Merge master to gh-pages when ready to publish