http://stories.upthebuzzard.com All rights reserved. a collection of notes and observations from and aide-memoires for using Jekyll for the first time. riffing on the simple site search, re-using the data for auto-generate of pseudo-stories. Fri, 14 Apr 2017 22:04:00 +0000 http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-04-14-ngrams-and-markov-chains-in-jekyll.html http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-04-14-ngrams-and-markov-chains-in-jekyll.html a hack which is not terribly efficient, and would not scale to large posts or to a large collection of posts, but is pleasingly Jekyll-y, albeit needing a smidge of javascript. Sun, 02 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0000 http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-04-02-simple-site-search-in-jekyll.html http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-04-02-simple-site-search-in-jekyll.html is quite simple, but requires a few handlebars Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:00:00 +0000 http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-21-multiple-authors-in-jekyll.html http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-21-multiple-authors-in-jekyll.html A brief experiment with how to add a simple view within a scrolling Jekyll collection post onto a fixed image 'behind' it. Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:00:00 +0000 http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-background-attachment-parallax-scrolling-and-jekyll.html http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-background-attachment-parallax-scrolling-and-jekyll.html If you use Collections in Jekyll, you lose some of the default plumbing that 'just works' for normal posts etc. One such piece of plumbing is the idea of the previous and next posts within a collection. Sun, 19 Feb 2017 15:00:00 +0000 http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-prev-and-next-within-a-jekyll-collection.html http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-prev-and-next-within-a-jekyll-collection.html look up the collection via the page param and don't forget about the spurious newlines Sun, 19 Feb 2017 14:00:00 +0000 http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-rss-feed-for-a-jekyll-collection.html http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-rss-feed-for-a-jekyll-collection.html look up the site.documents, filter by posts, then prefix the collection title Sun, 19 Feb 2017 13:00:00 +0000 http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-rss-feed-for-all-jekyll-collections.html http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-rss-feed-for-all-jekyll-collections.html add a sequence attribute to each collection and sort by that Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:00:00 +0000 http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-sort-order-of-jekyll-collections.html http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-sort-order-of-jekyll-collections.html somewhat clumsy idiom to locate collection object via name Sun, 19 Feb 2017 10:00:00 +0000 http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-accessing-jekyll-collection-details-from-a-post.html http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-19-accessing-jekyll-collection-details-from-a-post.html Using Jekyll Collections allows for rich structures, but means re-building a bunch of what would have been default functionality for vanilla posts and pages. Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:42:00 +0000 http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-15-using-jekyll-collections.html http://stories.upthebuzzard.com/jekyll_notes/2017-02-15-using-jekyll-collections.html