Moved some common links to the config.yml file; continued work on the initial blog post

src/_config.yml

@@ -6,8 +6,13 @@ description: >-
   The Bit Goblin main website, a place for cool tech things.
 baseurl: '/'
 url: 'https://www.bitgoblin.tech'
-bitgoblin_discord_link: ''
+links:
-bitgoblin_minecraft_server: 'https://mc.bitgoblin.tech'
+  bitgoblin_channel: 'https://youtube.com/BitGoblin'
+  ascendings_channel: 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCWlMg8oP9pz4Zlu4iZjPFw'
+  twitch_channel: 'https://twitch.tv/brotherballan'
+  discord_invite: 'https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=channel_banner&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjZzc29mblpxVGE0MVZnRXctM2M1Zy1LQ1p1UXxBQ3Jtc0ttbl9yWHdGVWF1QXJFRmh4WGp0MDFKVzNUMnZDOHFxNUQwZmdCbkhkbXFwQjFSRTVGemIwdXpTbC1pV2FwMmMxaUhKMnVMN2NLY0J0ZWFsenVBYmZtY1VUWjBYdXpKVDVFWThaZU1Fb3J3RHVQSDBNYw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscord.gg%2FuVNAJ4nrB9'
+  forum: 'https://forum.bitgoblin.tech'
+  minecraft_website: 'https://mc.bitgoblin.tech'
 
 # Build settings
 plugins:

src/_layouts/home.html

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ layout: default
 
 <!-- Bit Goblin YouTube channel section -->
 <div id="bitgoblin-section" class="youtube-section">
-  <h3>Find Bit Goblin on <a href="https://youtube.com/BitGoblin">YouTube</a>.</h3>
+  <h3>Find Bit Goblin on <a href="{{ site.links.bitgoblin_channel }}">YouTube</a>.</h3>
 
   <div class="row">
     <div class="video-card columns four"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMaFYUNwE5U">
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ layout: default
 <!-- Ascendings YouTube channel section -->
 <div id="Ascendings-section" class="youtube-section">
 
-  <h3>Like watching Old School RuneScape videos? Go watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCWlMg8oP9pz4Zlu4iZjPFw">Ascendings</a>.</h3>
+  <h3>Like watching Old School RuneScape videos? Go watch <a href="{{ site.links.ascendings_channel }}">Ascendings</a>.</h3>
 
   <div class="row">
     <div class="video-card columns four"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtOpQv6ZBq0&list=PLIg6BQwweIwGdQNrbDMwGPxifgJ7iIXnE">
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ layout: default
 <!-- Minecraft server callout section -->
 <section id="minecraft-section">
 
-  <h3>Play Minecraft? Go check out the <a href="https://mc.bitgoblin.tech">community Minecraft server</a>!</h3>
+  <h3>Play Minecraft? Go check out the <a href="{{ site.links.minecraft_website }}">community Minecraft server</a>!</h3>
 
   <img class="u-max-full-width" src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/f/ff/Java_Edition_logo_12.png" alt="Minecraft Java Edition logo">
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ layout: default
 <!-- Bit Goblin forum callout section -->
 <section id="forum-section">
 
-  <h3>You can also participate in the <a href="https://forum.bitgoblin.tech">community forum</a>!</h3>
+  <h3>You can also participate in the <a href="{{ site.links.forum }}">community forum</a>!</h3>
 
   <p>Some of us love the old-style internet forums to converse and help others out. Anything you would like to discuss may happen here under the proper forum sections.</p>
 

src/_layouts/post.html

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 ---
-
+layout: default
 ---
 
-<p>This is a post page.</p>
-
 {{ content }}

src/_posts/2021-08-17-welcome-to-bitgoblin.markdown

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title:  "Welcome to Bit Goblin!"
+date:   2021-08-17 13:11:02 -0400
+categories: housekeeping
+---
+
+There's not much else to say... welcome to Bit Goblin!
+
+If you're here then you likely don't need a real introduction since you're probably coming from YouTube or some other platform that you've met me on. But either way, in case you don't already know me, I'm a fun-loving, tech nerd that loves playing with anything relating to computers. Whether it's networking, system administration, database administration, building PCs, software development... the list goes on, but I love it all. To me, it's really fun building things and making things do what I want them to, whether it's to make my life a little bit easier, self-host some services to better safeguard my data, or just for fun. (...it's mostly for fun!)
+
+The content I post is mostly centered around me just documenting what I'm doing for my own future reference if I ever run into the same problems, and hopefully it helps you out as well or at least gets your gears turning and motivates you to go out and play with tech in your own way.
+
+The primary content that I publish is over on YouTube on my [Bit Goblin channel]({{ site.links.bitgoblin_channel }}), and I also semi-regularly post videos on Old School RuneScape over on [Ascendings]({{ site.links.ascendings_channel }}). If you prefer watching live content more, then you can head on over to [my Twitch channel]({{ site.links.twitch_channel }}) - I'm not nearly as active over there but I do hop occasionally to interact with you all and have a good time playing games (mostly Old School RuneScape... it's my favorite game, stop judging me).
+
+I'm also huge into building an inclusive, supportive community for great people to chat, chill and help each other out. In this vein I've spun up a [Discord server]({{ site.links.discord_invite }}) for you all to go hang out in and chat, and I'm currently in the process of spinning up a Minecraft server for you all to play on and a forum for a more laid back, old school-style way to talk to one another and get help. I'm open to spinning up more services for the community, so be sure to let me know if there's anything you want!

src/_posts/2021-08-17-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown

@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title:  "Welcome to Jekyll!"
-date:   2021-08-17 13:11:02 -0400
-categories: jekyll update
----
-You’ll find this post in your `_posts` directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run `jekyll serve`, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.
-
-Jekyll requires blog post files to be named according to the following format:
-
-`YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP`
-
-Where `YEAR` is a four-digit number, `MONTH` and `DAY` are both two-digit numbers, and `MARKUP` is the file extension representing the format used in the file. After that, include the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.
-
-Jekyll also offers powerful support for code snippets:
-
-{% highlight ruby %}
-def print_hi(name)
-  puts "Hi, #{name}"
-end
-print_hi('Tom')
-#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.
-{% endhighlight %}
-
-Check out the [Jekyll docs][jekyll-docs] for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. File all bugs/feature requests at [Jekyll’s GitHub repo][jekyll-gh]. If you have questions, you can ask them on [Jekyll Talk][jekyll-talk].
-
-[jekyll-docs]: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/home
-[jekyll-gh]:   https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll
-[jekyll-talk]: https://talk.jekyllrb.com/

src/assets/stylesheets/lumbridge.sass

@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ hr
 #main-content
   margin-bottom: 40px
 
+// home page styles
+
 .youtube-section
   .video-card a
     display: block
@@ -89,6 +91,26 @@ hr
       img
         transform: scale(1.1)
 
+// Blog posts page
+
+#post-list
+  list-style: none
+
+  li
+    padding: 15px 20px 0
+    border: 2px solid #bbb
+
+  .post-title
+    margin-bottom: 3px
+
+  .post-info
+    color: #999
+
+  .post-body
+    margin-bottom: 0
+
+// footer section
+
 #footer
   width: 100%
   margin-top: 100px

src/blog.html

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+layout: page
+---
+
+<ul id="post-list">
+  {% for post in site.posts %}
+    <li>
+      <h5 class="post-title"><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h5>
+      <p class="post-info">{{ post.date | date: "%a %b %d, %Y" }}</p>
+      {{ post.content | truncate: 350 }}
+    </li>
+  {% endfor %}
+</ul>