Blogging Toolkit

A collection of links to help you get setup with Open Source blogging.

How-To Series

• Part 1 - Why I’m using open source and an overview of my blog setup
• Part 2 - Getting started with a step-by-step guide
• Part 3 - Securing your Content and Going Live with GitHub Pages
• Part 4 - Tips & Tricks with Jekyll and Markdown editing

Toolkit

GitHub Pages

GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service & uses Jekyll as the default generator to build websites from a GitHub repository.

• https://pages.github.com/
• https://help.github.com/en/github/

GitHub

GitHub provides repository hosting for software development version control using Git.

• https://github.com/
• https://guides.github.com/

Git

Git is a distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development.

• https://git-scm.com/downloads
• https://github.github.com/training-kit/

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft with support for Git and Markdown editing.

• https://code.visualstudio.com/download

Jekyll

Jekyll is an open source static site generator built as a Ruby Gem and integrated into GitHub Pages.

• https://jekyllrb.com/
• https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/windows/
• https://jekyllrb.com/resources/

Ruby

Ruby is an open source Programming Language.

• https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

Minimal Mistakes - Jekyll Theme

Minimal Mistakes by Michael Rose is the Jekyll theme I currently use for this site.

• https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/
• https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/quick-start-guide/

CloudSkew

CloudSkew is a tool I currently use to create diagrams via a web browser.

• https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew