Instruction from the doctor: Lose weight your cholesterol is too high. Nothing like a statement like that to make you feel worse about yourself.
A terrible thing has happened. I’ve run out of coffee beans and there’s no time to go buy some before my first meeting of the day…
Currently reading: The Innovators by Walter Isaacson 📚🎧
Absolutely love this. I’ll be saving this to return to many times. Go and read Lessons of Design.
May finally have got it working… sometimes it takes a vent post to make you reset and look for a different way.
No matter what I do, I can never get tags to work in Jekyll. I’ve followed so many tutorials to try and get tag pages to work, but the plugins never do.
Adding tags
This post was written when this blog was based on Jekyll before I moved back to Wordpress. I have kept it as part of the history of this blog.
It’s taken me a long time with lots of googling and trial & error, but I finally have tags working on this site.
Out of the box Jekyll provides a tagging function. You can define tags at the start of blog posts along with the other data you wish to add, but annoyingly Jekyll doesn’t automatically provide archive pages.
When I first built this version of my site I started to add tags to my blog posts. I managed to figure out how to display them on each posts page but that was as far as I got. I made a couple of attempts at adding the functionality I wanted to the tags in the form of a page for each tag that lists the post attached to the tag. I wanted people to be able to click on the tags at the bottom of the posts and go to the tag page, and I wanted to list all the tags in use on the site in the archive page.
Finally today I came across this list of Jekyll plugins. In the list was a plugin designed to generate archive pages for years, months, days, categories, and tags. With the aim of todays tinkering focused on getting tags working I limited the archive plugin to just generate the pages for tags. Joyfully it worked first time. It took me some playing around with the templates to get them looking how I wanted, but I had pages generated for each tag and links to each page from the bottom of the posts.
The final task was getting a list of tags on the archive page. It took a lot of googling and faffing but eventually I managed to achieve what I wanted.
Now I just have to spend a bit of time making sure everything is tagged up as I want before I can explore how to make use of the tags in other ways.
First steps playing with Figma today. We’ve been all in on XD for visual design but it seems to be dead and keeps breaking things.
1Password is going to support passkeys. This looks really interesting, might be time to do some passkey research.
Spent a bit more time working on my personal site. I’ve now revived the Jekyll powered blog and plan to keep playing with the site. Need to add a little personality to it but more of the bare bones are there now.