He not busy being born is busy dying
- Create for your life and beyond with complete control of your content.
- Free, using open source tools and professionally respected Github Pages.
- Easy no-code, in-browser user experience.
- Check out a live demo -> EasyABC Live Demo
Get started with the live documentation.
- Create a Github account.
- Fork the repository:
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Name your repository with the format:
GITHUB_USERNAME.github.io.- For example mine is
shelbyjenkins.github.io.
- For example mine is
- Create a codespace from your forked repo.
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It will take a 60-120s for the codespace to build for the first time.
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After the codespace has finished building, open a terminal, and start the local dev server with
npm run dev.
- Click on the link in the terminal. This will open a local version of the site in your browser. You can use this to preview your changes.
- Your content will live in the
public/personal-blog/blogfolder.- By adding a a file to this folder, it will automatically be added to the blog.
- Use the
public/personal-blog/blog/templateas a starter by copying and pasting it to duplicate it. Then rename the folder and.mdfile inside it to match. - Your new blog post will now be in your browser!
- The template has more instructions for creating new posts. You can find a live version of it here.
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Markdown is straight forward and you defintely use it in some form already. For example: Slack and Discord both use flavors of markdown.
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You can write in your favorite text editor and convert to markdown with tools like xyz and zyx.
- For general markdown instructions see Astro's general markdown guide for some notes.
- And also the EasyABC markdown specifics guide.
- Every setting you need to change along with instructions for them will be in
public/easyAbcUserConfig.ts
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In your Github repository go to the settings and find the pages panel.
- Set the Source dropdown to Github Actions.
- Create your first commit and Push it!
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Blogging platforms like Medium put your posts behind a paywall. Others like Substack and Dev.to might someday do the same.
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Linkedin and other social media are in the business of controlling your content. It can make organic discovery of your content via SEO difficult or impossible.
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Git gives you a higher level of version control (saving), remote editing, and redudancy.
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You maintain complete control of your work to share, edit, or export for other platforms.
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Github Pages are free (for now), but because it's built on Git you can export to another provider easily.
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A Github Page is considered safe to click on as a common, well known, non-paywalled service.
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You can use your own domain name and your own styling to really create something unique.
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If you are comfortable with not understanding everything, it's an enjoyable experience to create and learn.
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It's actually really easy (30m-60m).
- Tailwind Dark Mode: With or Without Javascript
- Astro content collections in external directories with symlinks
- TODO: ColorFun Theme utilities
- TODO: Reading time utility
- TODO: Automatically adding post modification dates
- TODO: Automatically generating post descriptions
This project used the Astro Blog example as a starting point.
Dynamic images and presets are from Oliver Speir's remark-imgattr