Copyright (c) Feross Aboukhadijeh

Hi, I'm Feross Aboukhadijeh and this is the source code for my blog, https://feross.org. Feel free to browse the source and ask me questions.

If you fork this, please create your own blog design. Don't use mine! I don't want to see fifty other blogs that look the same as mine. Thanks for understanding!

All my posts are written in Markdown. The blog is powered by Jekyll, a static site generator that takes Markdown blog posts and converts them into HTML files. The benefit of this approach are many:

• The blog can be served with almost any web server, since the output of Jekyll is just flat HTML files.
• The whole blog can easily be version controlled.
• The blog requires less maintainance (goodbye out-of-date Wordpress installations!)

I also wrote a simple Node.js/MySQL app to track the number of page views on each blog post. It's pretty straightforward.

I host the actual site on my own server, since I have a Jekyll plugin (and GitHub Pages doesn't support Jekyll plugins). Also, GitHub isn't going to run that Node.js app for me. Also, I like being in control of my website hosting (seriously, being a sharecropper sucks).

npm install
npm run install-system-deps # macOS only

npm run build

npm start

npm run watch

npm test

npm run publish

On the server, I serve the generated files with nginx and run the Node.js app using Supervisord (to restart the app if it crashes).

That's pretty much it.

Copyright (c) Feross Aboukhadijeh