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Does anyone have experience with setting up a github.io site? Jekyll is driving me nuts and I'm no ruby expert.

Matthew Graybosch @starbreaker

@FeyTechnologist Let's have a look at your repository, first.

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@starbreaker thank you!
repo: github.com/ashanhol/ashanhol.g

trying to use this theme: github.com/mmistakes/minimal-m

I have a post in /_posts/ but its not displaying on the site (ashanhol.github.io). I have a feeling I'm either navigating to the wrong url (idk how though) or my _config.yml is wrong

@FeyTechnologist I think the problem is with your categories. Your category list should be contained within square brackets, and categories with more than one word probably need to be quoted.

categories: [ "Game Design", "Game Dev", "Game Development", Holographic, HoloLens, MR, "Spatial Mapping", "Spatial Sound", Unity, VR ]

Also, have you tried doing a local build?

@FeyTechnologist The post is accessible via the RSS feed. I'd suggest setting the permalink to something that doesn't include the categories list, because Jekyll has shit for brains when it comes to multiple categories.

@starbreaker Ah, didn't think to check to see if there's an RSS feed. But I don't think this is the case, I commented out the categories and it still didn't show up. 😰

@FeyTechnologist Try clearing your cache and refreshing your screen. Also, Github Pages doesn't build immediately after a push; there's some kind of queue involved.

@starbreaker Thank you so much for your help! I think we managed to solve the problem on another thread, the index.md was not updated properly πŸ™ƒ

@FeyTechnologist Shit. Didn't even think to look there. Sorry.

@FeyTechnologist BTW, are you familiar with Python? If so, I can tell you about Pelican next time you want to put together a website.

@starbreaker
I've made websites before (node, flask, Django, .Net, etc) but that isn't really what I wanted to do in this case. I thought github pages would be straightforward enough since it's markdown but it's proving a bigger pain in the butt than expected. I literally just wanted to write markdown and change my theme.

@FeyTechnologist Sorry. Static site generators aren't quite there yet. I had to do a bit of work on Pelican to get the output I wanted; most of the themes are fugly.

@FeyTechnologist Have you looked at netlify.com for hosting your static site? I've used netlify + hugo for 20 sites, and it works swimmingly.