Back in the summer of 2015, I decided to trash my website and rebuild it from scratch on top of Jekyll, a static site generator.

My goal was two-fold:

1. Build a new, fresh website to house my personal brand.
2. Learn the Liquid templating language.

I found a starter theme, gutted it, and spent a week digging in to how Jekyll works in order to build the features I wanted. Along the way I built out some tools and templates for myself and decided to share them on Github.

The collection so far:

• A template for adding social metadata (Open Graph and Twitter Cards) to posts and pages
• A template for adding Disqus comments
• A template for listing posts by tag
• A posts heatmap calendar
• Options for Search on a Jekyll site
• A template for filtering categories with Isotope
• A Jekyll Collection template for Book Reviews, complete with star ratings
• Moving your Jekyll Site to Amazon S3 and Cloudfront with Outside DNS