jasontrost.com

Source for jasontrost.com, a static personal site hosted on GitHub Pages.

Structure

• index.html, about.html, media.html — main pages
• notes/ — notes index, posts, and RSS feed (notes/rss.xml)
• style.css — all styling
• sitemap.xml, robots.txt, CNAME — SEO and custom-domain config
• Images live at the repo root and in notes/images/

Local development

No build step. Open index.html directly in a browser, or serve the directory:

python3 -m http.server 8000   # then visit http://localhost:8000

A local server is closer to production since it resolves root-relative paths (/style.css, /about.html) the way GitHub Pages does.

Deployment

Pushing to main deploys automatically via GitHub Pages. The site is served at the custom domain in CNAME.

Adding a note

1. Create notes/<slug>.html (copy an existing post for the page structure and meta tags).
2. Add a card linking to it in notes/index.html.
3. Add an <item> to notes/rss.xml.
4. Add a <url> entry to sitemap.xml.