Using Jekyll 4 with GitHub Pages
by James Armes (they/them)
This site is built using Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages.
I’ve been using this setup for some time, since switching from a Drupal site
(which was overkill for this small blog and the little traffic it receives) and
paid hosting. Until recently, I used the default setup on GitHub Pages which
uses jekyll 3.9.2. When I decided to hit the reset button, I saw that
Jekyll 4.0.0 was released in 2019 (nearly four years ago!) and with the release
of 4.3.0, the 3.9.x releases were officially moved to security updates
only.
For much of 2022 I was working on an open data classification tool built in Ruby
on Rails. Although initially developed to help classify emergency call data, the
tool could be used for any type of data, with some modification.
I know that Macs are very popular in the engineering community, but I have
always preferred some flavor of Linux for my local system. Throughout most of my
career I’ve used either 
I created my Twitter account in September 2008, about two years after it was
launched. I was early in my career and thought it sounded like a useful tool to
connect with other engineers. And it was, for a time.
It’s been some time since I’ve written a post (August 25, 2016, to be exact). So
long in fact, that I’ve decided to start from ground zero. Much of the
information that was contained on the site is long outdated, and I was far less
experienced when it was written.