add extra dirs, fix up post

_config.yml

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ description: >- # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
   Write an awesome description for your new site here. You can edit this
   line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for
   Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description.
+baseurl: "/til"
+url: "https://galtay.github.io/til"
 twitter_username: gabrielaltay
 github_username: galtay
 minimal_mistakes_skin: default
@@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ markdown: kramdown
 remote_theme: mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
 # Outputting
 permalink: /:categories/:title/
-paginate: 5 # amount of posts to show
+paginate: 10 # amount of posts to show
 paginate_path: /page:num/
 timezone: # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
 
@@ -71,6 +73,9 @@ author:
     - label: "GitHub"
       icon: "fab fa-fw fa-github"
       url: "https://github.com/galtay"
+    - label: "LinkedIn"
+      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-linkedin"
+      url: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-altay"
 
 footer:
   links:
@@ -80,6 +85,9 @@ footer:
     - label: "GitHub"
       icon: "fab fa-fw fa-github"
       url: "https://github.com/galtay"
+    - label: "LinkedIn"
+      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-linkedin"
+      url: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-altay"
 
 
 defaults:
@@ -109,5 +117,4 @@ tag_archive:
   type: liquid
   path: /tags/
 
-baseurl: "/til" # Leave empty for user repositories
-url: "https://galtay.github.io/til" # Replace with your GitHub username
+

_data/navigation.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+main:
+  - title: "Posts"
+    url: /posts/
+  - title: "Categories"
+    url: /categories/
+  - title: "Tags"
+    url: /tags/

_pages/404.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+title: "Page Not Found"
+excerpt: "Page not found. Your pixels are in another canvas."
+sitemap: false
+permalink: /404.html
+---
+
+Sorry, but the page you were trying to view does not exist.

_pages/category-archive.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+title: "Posts by Category"
+layout: categories
+permalink: /categories/
+author_profile: true
+---

_pages/tag-archive.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+title: "Posts by Tag"
+permalink: /tags/
+layout: tags
+author_profile: true
+---

_pages/year-archive.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+title: "Posts by Year"
+permalink: /posts/
+layout: posts
+author_profile: true
+---

_posts/2025-01-04-setup-jekyll.md

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+---
+title: "setting up static github pages site with jekyll"
+date: 2025-01-04
+tags: jekyll 
+---
+
+This is how I setup a static Jekyll site hosted with github pages.
+I was working on Ubuntu for this.
+The code is hosted at [https://github.com/galtay/til](https://github.com/galtay/til)
+and the site is hosted at [https://galtay.github.io/til/](https://galtay.github.io/til/).
+
+# Setup Ruby
+
+Install a Ruby version manager.
+I used [rbenv](https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv){:target="_blank"}.
+
+```bash
+sudo apt install rbenv
+```
+
+Add the following init command to `~/.zshrc` and source it.
+
+``` bash
+eval "$(rbenv init -)"
+```
+
+Configure a specific version of Ruby.
+
+``` bash
+rbenv install 3.1.2
+rbenv local 3.1.2
+rbenv rehash
+```
+
+# Setup Minimal Mistakes Theme
+
+The minimal-mistakes theme by [Michael Rose](https://mademistakes.com/) is great!
+
+ * [main repo](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes)
+ * [starter repo](https://github.com/mmistakes/mm-github-pages-starter)
+ * [docs](https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes)
+
+I began with the starter repo and simply updated the links in `_config.yml` and started writing posts.
+In particular I added,
+
+``` yaml
+baseurl: "/til"
+url: "https://galtay.github.io/til"
+```
+
+This is needed when publishing a project based github pages site as opposed to a user based site.
+[more here](https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/about-github-pages#types-of-github-pages-sites).
+
+Posts can be written in markdown and the flavor of markdown used is 
+[kramdown](https://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html).
+
+# Run Locally
+
+Install bundler
+
+``` bash
+gem install bundler
+```
+
+Install project dependencies
+
+``` bash
+bundle install
+```
+
+Run the site locally
+
+``` bash
+bundle exec jekyll serve
+```
+
+# Publish from git branch
+
+I setup my repo to deploy from the `main` branch.
+I did this by navigating to Settings/Pages/Build and deployment and choosing `Deploy from a branch`.
+When I'm happy with the local changes I push to the `main` branch and the site is automatically deployed.