20 Jun 2017

Day 2: I joined the 100 days of code challenge

My first project is to configure my diary.

What I’ve done today:

• Fork the original repo
• Add Jekyll and a template
• Configure the template
• Build a “link dump” functionality:
  • Links and their description can be put in YAML FrontMatter
  • A link list is generated
  • The link list automatically tries to grab a favicon from the linked site and shows it if it finds one

What I’m planning to do next: The diary still looks quite raw and ugly. So I’ll add some styling I think.

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Learnings today:

• Its easier to think about cool features than to actually develop them ;-)
• There are a lot of solutions for a problem - some of them are bad

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Link Dump for today:

• jekyll
• Template used: white paper
• See if source of an image exists
• Introduction to jekyll front matter, especially arrays
• Ditching jquery for vanilla js
• Loop through tags in Jekyll Post
• Extract hostname from string
• add or remove a git remote (I checked out https instead of ssh)