personal_site/_posts/2023-11-9-this-site.md

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Notes on building this site	post	/favicon/android-chrome-512x512.png	Mostly a note to self so that I can check this when I forget late how it works.

The site is build by a github action based on the jekyll recommendation. I did this because I wanted to be able to use npm install like all the cool kids which lead to adding jekyll-node-module to the site to be able to copy things in from node_packages without committing it all to the repo.

The 3D outline rendered images on the projects pages are done with code from Omaha Shehata.

## Future There are a few plugins I'm thinking of adding:

• jekyll-auto-image to simply choosing a representative image for a particular post.
• I'd like to write a jekyll plugin for D2 diagrams. It doesn't look too difficult.
• I'm wondering if I should switch the rendering to use pandoc, I used pandoc in the past to convert my thesis to multiple output formats and I suspect it is now a more active project than jekyll itself, for example someone has already written a D2 pandoc filter.

There's a good list of jekyll plugins here.