Tech@Work

This repository contains the content of my blog Tech@Work.

Workflows

• Linting:
  • YAML
  • PHP
  • Markdown files
  • Dockerfiles
  • the title of pull requests
  • Github workflow files
• Semantic release

Comment System

As this is a static site, I need a place for the comments for each article. I decided to put them into GitHub issues. This integrates nicely into my daily workflow and it's fully automated:

• when a new post is created, the pipeline creates a new issue with the title of the post and the labels blog-comment and not-published.
• the issue id is added to the post's frontmatter (with a commit from the workflow)
• as soon as the PR is merged into the main branch, the issue is closed, the label not-published is removed

But the main work was done by others: Ari Stathopoulos created the basis for the comment system in 2019. And Aleksandr Hovhannisyan extended this system in 2020 and 2021 with really useful JavaScript.

I integrated this comment system into my blog and changed the layout a little to integrate better with the Minimal Mistake theme I use.

Run Jekyll locally

Execute the start_blog.sh script. It builds a Docker image with all prerequisites and serves the blog on your local machine at http://localhost:4000/.