Renormalized

Welcome to my personal site. While I am not particularly interested in writing much, occasionally I will use this to say things that I feel need to be said, usually relating to topics in physics, music, and computer science. The primary goal of the site, however, is for me to get some hands on experience in developing a lean, optimized, yet feature-rich static site.

Setting Up the Repo

First, you need to install RubyGems, clone this repo, and navigate into it. Then, execute these commands:

gem install bundler jekyll
bundle install

If you do not have permissions to write to your RubyGems directory, either run the install with sudo or use a virtual environment. How to set up the virtual environment, if you choose to go that route, is on you.

Building the Site

To give space for the local build approach taken on this site, the default branch for development is src. The master branch is a subtree based off the dist directory. This logic is handled entirely by the build and deploy scripts in the root directory.

To build the site, execute:

./build

To run the site (you can see it at http://localhost:4000), execute:

./serve

To deploy the site, which includes a push to origin/master, execute:

./deploy

Goals

Long-term

Styling
Service workers
Javascript science demos (double pendulum, Ising model)

Short-term