Hey there. It’s been a while. I haven’t written much lately because of the time commitment between work and school, but I’ve had this nagging thought in the back of my mind ever since I first started this website.

My first site was a fork of the Academic Pages template and it never felt quite right to me. The template is by no means bad, in fact, it’s a very good and straightforward option, perfect for an academic who wants a clean, built-out webpage that’s easy to customize. The customization, of course, mainly refers to things like the title, adding papers or blog posts, etc.

But I wanted something different, and I wanted it to be something I created. The Academic Pages fork turned out to be too much of a beast for me to tweak to my liking.

I’m still using a template of sorts based on Jeykll Minima. The site structure created by Jeykll is very basic, so a lot of the site CSS comes from the minima gem (a Ruby library) which is stored in a different directory. This makes adding and editing the webpage so much easier (at least for me) because I’m not getting bogged down in existing formatting syntax. I just override any existing CSS in a new main.scss file as necessary, and add the page layouts that I want to make everything look the way I want it. The minima template just helps me get started.

Eventually I want to automoate the publishing process to go from Obsidian (where I do most of my writing) to the site posts and add, commit, push to GitHub in one step. I want it all to be seamless.

Anyway, I hope you like the new look! I’ll be back soon!

-G