mvyleteljr.github.io

Dead-simple personal site. The front-end is plain HTML + one CSS file, no JS. Blog posts are still rendered by Jekyll (free on GitHub Pages) so they can stay in Markdown.

Files

• index.html — homepage (photo + short bio + links).
• writing.html — hand-maintained list of posts, grouped by category, linking to /blog/… URLs.
• photos.html — photo archive, grouped by category, as a grid.
• links.html — free-form curated links, grouped by category.
• style.css — all styling. Shared by every page, including rendered posts.
• avatar.jpg — homepage photo. img/ — photos.
• _posts/ — Markdown blog posts. _layouts/ — the post/default templates.

How to edit

• Add a piece of writing: write the post in _posts/ as YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md with front matter (title, tldr). It publishes at /blog/slug-YYYY-MM-DD. Then add one <li> to writing.html under the right <div class="cat">: <li><span class="date">YYYY-MM-DD</span><a href="/blog/slug-YYYY-MM-DD">Title</a></li>.
• Add a photo: drop the file in img/, add <a href="img/NAME.jpg"><img src="img/NAME.jpg" alt=""></a> to photos.html under a category.
• Add a link: add one <li> to links.html. Categories are just <div class="cat"> headers — make up new ones at will.
• Change the bio: edit the <p> tags in index.html.

Categories are freeform: a category exists if there's a cat header above a list.

Constraints (keep it this way)

• No frameworks, no web fonts, no bundler, no client-side JS on the static pages. One CSS file.
• The four top-level pages are plain HTML — edit them directly.
• Keep the single centered column. Don't add heroes, animations, or decoration.

Local preview

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

Visit http://127.0.0.1:4000.