Migrating all my writings to Github pages

Installations

• Ruby
• Gem
• Bundler

Installing / Updating ruby

from https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/macos/

brew upgrade ruby

For some reason, it didn’t succeed. I had to run a couple of more commands. It complained that homebrew-core and homebrew-case are shallow clones

git -C /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask fetch --unshallow
git -C /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask fetch --unshallow

Then I added the ruby path to my ~/.zshrc

export PATH="/usr/local/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="$HOME/.gem/ruby/X.X.0/bin:$PATH"

Install jekyll

gem install --user-install bundler jekyll

Install bundler (https://bundler.io/)

gem install bundler

Create a new jekyll site

>> jekyll -v 
   jekyll 4.2.0
   
>> jekyll 4.2.0 new .

Open a gem file and enable gitub pages.

# comment this
# gem "jekyll", "~> 4.2.0"

# uncomment this
gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins

now run the site

bundle exec jekyll serve

favicon

Browsers from different vendors and also different mobile phones ask for favicons in their own way. Luckily, there is favicon generator.

Then create a custom header html and paste this

<!-- _includes/head/custom.html -->

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-touch-icon.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon-32x32.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon-16x16.png">
<link rel="manifest" href="/site.webmanifest">
<link rel="mask-icon" href="/safari-pinned-tab.svg" color="#5bbad5">
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#da532c">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#ffffff">