In my last post I mentioned that I preferred my list of categories to go along the top of the summary of posts rather than in a column to the left or right. I also wanted them to appear in the same colours that were used in the blog posts. This is the code that I used:

I mentioned in my previous post that Drafts was “corrupting” files containing curly brackets. These brackets are part of the Liquid templating language which is used by Jekyll to turn templates into html.

This looked like it was going to be straightforward, but it took me ages to sort this out. Because of the nature of what Jekyll plugins are allowed in GitHub Pages, it is not possible to create tag and category pages. The solution from Stephan Groß - slightly adapted by me - is to create a dummy file for each tag in the folder /blog/tags with a name like tagname.md with an entry like this example for the tag GitHub-pages:

I have always been one to flit from subject to subject - both inside and outside a work environment, life is generally like that. Given that a blog (with a little cheating here and there) is generally written chronologically, I feel the need to be able to identify themes and topics so that all the stuff on a single subject can be gathered together for a comprehensive read (if only by me).

Although the instructions for setting up the blog mentioned in my prevous post were excellent, a few tweaks were needed behind the scenes.

Although I registered with GitHub nearly two years ago, it was only today that I started using it. I’ve been rummaging around with both blogging and programming for many years without any great sense of direction; but the conjunction of three things has led to this blog.