Carlo Wahlstedt

Personal blog and portfolio site at thewahlstedts.com.

Tech Stack

• Static site generator: Jekyll (via github-pages gem v232)
• CSS framework: Bootstrap 5.3.3
• JavaScript: jQuery 3.7.1
• Hosting: GitHub Pages (auto-builds on push to master)
• Comments: Disqus
• Analytics: Google Analytics
• Theme: Beautiful Jekyll

Local Development

Using Docker

docker build -t site "$PWD"
docker run -d -p 4000:4000 --name site-con -v "$PWD":/srv/jekyll site

Start/stop the container:

docker start site-con
docker stop site-con

Using Ruby/Bundler

bundle install
jekyll serve

The site runs at http://localhost:4000. Changes to _config.yml require a server restart.

Project Structure

├── _config.yml        # Site settings (colors, navbar, social links, plugins)
├── _layouts/          # Page templates (base, default, page, post, minimal)
├── _includes/         # Reusable HTML partials (nav, footer, head, analytics)
├── _posts/            # Blog posts (HTML and Markdown, 2011-present)
├── _data/             # Data files (social networks, UI text)
├── css/               # Stylesheets (main.css uses Liquid variables)
├── js/                # JavaScript
├── img/               # Images (avatar, post images, backgrounds)
├── coffee-golf/       # Interactive project page
├── dot/               # Interactive project page
├── index.html         # Homepage with paginated post listing
├── aboutme.md         # About page
├── tags.html          # Tag index page
└── feed.xml           # RSS feed

Blog Posts

Posts live in _posts/ with the filename format YYYY-MM-DD-title.html (or .md).

Required front matter:

---
layout: post
title: "Post Title"
date: YYYY-MM-DD
tags: [tag1, tag2]
---

License

Built on the Beautiful Jekyll theme by Dean Attali.