Added CoffeeScript plugin to actually compile CoffeeScript files

.woodpecker.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+pipeline:
+  build:
+    image: jekyll/jekyll:4
+    environment:
+      - JEKYLL_ROOTLESS=1
+    commands:
+      - mkdir _site
+      - jekyll build -s src/ --disable-disk-cache
+
+  deploy:
+    image: appleboy/drone-scp
+    settings:
+      host:
+        - www3.int.metaunix.net
+        - www4.int.metaunix.net
+      user: xadmin
+      port: 22
+      password:
+        from_secret: ssh_password
+      command_timeout: 2m
+      target: /var/www/bitgoblin.tech
+      source: ./_site/*
+      rm: True
+      strip_components: 1
+    when:
+      event: tag

src/_config.yml

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ description: >-
   The Bit Goblin main website, a place for cool tech things.
 baseurl: '/'
 url: 'https://www.bitgoblin.tech'
-permalink: '/:year/:month/:day/:title:output_ext'
 links:
   bitgoblin_channel: 'https://youtube.com/BitGoblin'
   ascendings_channel: 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCWlMg8oP9pz4Zlu4iZjPFw'
@@ -14,10 +13,12 @@ links:
   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'
+  patreon_link: 'https://www.patreon.com/BitGoblin'
 
 # Build settings
 plugins:
   - jekyll-feed
+  - jekyll-coffeescript
 
 sass:
   sass_dir: 'assets/stylesheets'

src/_drafts/microsoft-edge-trial-run.md

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: "All Adventures Begin with Microsoft Edge"
+description: "This is part one of my Web Switching series, where I'm taking a look at other web browsers to see if I'm going to permanently switch from Mozilla Firefox."
+date: 2022-06-09 11:54:26 -0400
+tags: web-switched web-browsers microsoft microsoft-edge
+---
+
+I'm getting bored of Firefox. It works well and I love that it's open-source, but just being open-source isn't enough and I trust Mozilla about as much as I trust Google. Thus I'm ready for a change, and I'm going to start poking around some of the other major web browsers. Chrome/Chromium, Opera, Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, and possibly some others are my targets to try out. I'm going to give each browser about a 30 day trial run as my daily driver (note: I'll still be using other browsers for various things like maintaining multiple Google account sessions simultaneously), and the first one I'll be taking a look at is Microsoft Edge.
+
+This post will be accompanied by a video shortly, this is just a sneak peak for that video with my thoughts on Edge so far. I'll link the video here when it's live.
+
+### What is Edge?
+
+Microsoft's successor to Internet Explorer. Initially started out with their own rendering engine, but later based on Chromium and thus Google's Blink rendering engine. I've always liked Blink as it's super snappy.
+
+### Things I like...
+
+* Installing it was easy - Microsoft provide a Linux repo (nothing special)
+* Default theme (color themes) are beautiful - I'm partial to the Cool Blue one
+* Signing in to my Microsoft account was easy (nothing special)
+* I can use Chromecast from my browser (true for all Chromium browsers)
+
+### Things I don't like...
+
+* Starting Edge doesn't always restore my sessions, and when it does it doesn't always restore the tabs to their proper windows.
+* Can't find a way to change the search engine. I'm trying Bing out for now and it's doing fine for me (plus the Bing Rewards are nice!), but I'd like the option to change it.
+* Occasionally one window will pin itself to all of my workspaces and can't be unpinned without closing
+* Desktop notifications don't timeout
+
+<< Conclude the discussion of the blog post, plus shout out the [YouTube channel]({{ site.links.bitgoblin_channel }}), [Twitch channel]({{ site.links.twitch_channel }} [Patreon]({{ site.links.patreon_link }}), [Discord server]({{ site.links.discord_invite }}), etc >>

src/_drafts/template.md

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: "This is an Awesome Title."
+description: "There's not much else to say... welcome to Bit Goblin!"
+date: 2021-07-17 09:32:11 -0400
+tags: housekeeping
+---
+
+<< Here will be a short introduction to whatever this blog post is about... >>
+
+<< If there's a related video for this post, mention it here. >>
+
+<< Post content... >>
+
+Bacon ipsum dolor amet fatback ham turducken corned beef alcatra flank biltong beef ribs chicken chuck strip steak meatloaf salami short loin. Doner flank strip steak venison, bacon chuck beef kielbasa shankle chicken pork loin rump sausage tongue. Doner flank ribeye meatball. Ham filet mignon t-bone ball tip, frankfurter fatback ribeye brisket. Capicola ground round ham, alcatra drumstick tri-tip strip steak ribeye fatback kielbasa bresaola swine salami. Pork belly bresaola andouille shankle tenderloin spare ribs.
+
+Bresaola biltong beef sausage ground round turducken ham hock, venison leberkas. Pork beef ribs strip steak burgdoggen. Rump sausage tongue landjaeger short loin salami, sirloin hamburger pork loin tail. Pork belly ball tip short ribs shoulder, tongue pork cow. Meatball corned beef pancetta ham hock. Turkey sausage tenderloin cow. Pastrami short loin drumstick beef ribs, pancetta salami buffalo chicken ball tip t-bone capicola beef biltong fatback.
+
+Andouille ribeye shank porchetta. Doner andouille meatball, jerky tail filet mignon strip steak shoulder beef ribs tri-tip cupim. Tongue brisket spare ribs, capicola alcatra leberkas venison cow doner. Burgdoggen chicken tail jowl doner. Ground round turducken chuck, sausage venison salami tri-tip pork chislic. Beef spare ribs pancetta sausage andouille rump kevin pork chop chuck short ribs pork loin.
+
+<< Conclude the discussion of the blog post, plus shout out the [YouTube channel]({{ site.links.bitgoblin_channel }}), [Twitch channel]({{ site.links.twitch_channel }} [Patreon]({{ site.links.patreon_link }}), [Discord server]({{ site.links.discord_invite }}), etc >>

src/_layouts/default.html

@@ -37,10 +37,16 @@
 
   <footer id="footer">
     <div class="row">
-      <div class="columns twleve">
+      <div class="columns three">
+        <p>Support me over on <a href="{{ site.links.patreon_link }}">Patreon</a>!</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="columns six">
         <p class="u-text-center">{{ site.description }}</p>
         <p class="u-text-center">&copy; Bit Goblin | all rights reserved.</p>
       </div>
+      <div class="columns three">
+        <p>Feel free to <a href="{% link contact.markdown %}">contact me</a> for any business inquiries.</p>
+      </div>
     </div>
   </footer>
 </body>

src/_layouts/post.html

@@ -2,4 +2,7 @@
 layout: default
 ---
 
+<h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
+<p class="post-info">{{ page.date | date: "%a %b %d, %Y" }}</p>
+
 {{ content }}

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

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 ---
 layout: post
 title:  "Welcome to Bit Goblin!"
+description: "There's not much else to say... welcome to Bit Goblin!"
 date:   2021-08-17 13:11:02 -0400
-categories: housekeeping
+tags: housekeeping
 ---
 
 There's not much else to say... welcome to Bit Goblin!

src/_posts/2022-02-19-building-this-site-with-jekyll.markdown

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+---
+layout: post
+title:  "How This Site is Made (with Jekyll)"
+description: "These days, you can make a website MANY different ways. So I chose Jekyll..."
+date:   2022-02-19 12:31:10 -0400
+tags: web-design
+---
+
+There are MANY ways to build a website these days. You have the old-school ways of hand-coding your HTML's and CSS's, to building a dynamically-generated website with new-agey tools like webpack and whatever-node-framework-is-in-right-now, and even using point-and-click tools like Wordpress or Squarespace. No matter what you want to do and your skill level, there's something for you.
+
+Personally, I LOVE building websites from the ground up. Not necessarily coding everything from scratch, but at least starting from something barebones that's extensible enough so I can plug-n-play my own choice of tools to make that's tailored to me. This is why when I need to make a website, depending on the requirements I'll use frameworks like Slim (PHP), Express.js (Node.js), Gin (Go), and the like - minimalist frameworks (or routers...) that I can plug in things like templating engines, an ORM or some sort of database abstraction layer, and authentication mechanisms.
+
+I also firmly believe that NOT every single website needs to be built to accept user inputs, or dynamically generate web pages on the fly; sometimes you only need a simple, static webpage or set of webpages that are small, concise, and quick to load.
+
+## Introducing Jekyll ##
+
+This is where static website generators come into play, and I went with [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/). It's a really neat tool that combines the magic of the Liquid templating engine with the simplicity of markdown files to create a static, blog-aware site. Heck, it's so cool that it's used by GitHub! It's how they generate webpages for GitHub Pages! 
+
+Part of what makes Jekyll great is its extensibility. There are plugins available for things like compiling SASS/SCSS stylesheets and CoffeeScript, generating RSS feeds and sitemaps, displaying GitHub Gists, and many other things to help you in generating your site. Plus, there are community-maintained themes that can be used to give yourself a headstart with designing your site so you can focus on the content rather than the boring CSS designing junk.
+
+It does require some setup to get your site scaffolding and templating setup, especially if you want to use other tools like CoffeeScript to compile your JavaScript scripts (that's me!) and want to change your templating engine. But, once you've got your site configured, creating a new blog post is as simple as creating a new markdown file in your \_posts folder, fill out the post metadata, add some content and BAM! it's ready to go.
+
+Also, the developers of Jekyll were smart: they not allow you to build a site into static HTML files to serve on your site, but they also built in a tool to "watch" your source directory for changes and automatically rebuild it on the fly so you can easily see your changes as you're developing it or writing a new post.
+
+## Experiences with Hugo ##
+
+At this point I'd like to mention that I also really like [Hugo](https://gohugo.io), which is a static site generator in the same vein as Jekyll. It's written in Go, so it's typically a LOT faster to render sites, and it's also just a single binary so it's easier to install and maintain a single version that you build your site with. 
+
+Now as for why I went with Jekyll: simply just familiarity. I can go into a long debate about the pros and cons of each and talk about why Jekyll fits my use better, but realistically both are FANTASTIC tools that I'd recommend to anyone looking to build a static site. I don't need your confirmation that I made the correct choice ;).
+
+## That's all for now! ##
+
+Well, that's it for now. I hope you were able to learn something from this - I just wanted to talk about how I created this site with Jekyll since I'm really happy with the setup now. It's not too fancy, but isn't boring. Now the next step is integrating it with some CI to automatically deploy new versions of the site...

src/assets/stylesheets/lumbridge.sass

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ hr
 .u-text-center
   text-align: center
 
+.post-info
+  color: #999
+  font-style: italic
+
 // this wrapper is only used to hide the footer
 #wrapper
   position: relative
@@ -138,9 +142,6 @@ hr
   .post-title
     margin-bottom: 3px
 
-  .post-info
-    color: #999
-
   .post-body
     margin-bottom: 0
 
@@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ hr
 #footer
   box-sizing: border-box
   position: fixed
-  z-index: -1
+  z-index: 1
   bottom: 0
   width: 100%
   height: $footer-height

src/blog.markdown

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ layout: page
     <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 }}
+      <p>{{ post.description }}</p>
     </li>
   {% endfor %}
 </ul>

src/support.markdown

@@ -2,4 +2,9 @@
 layout: page
 ---
 
-If you're looking to contact me for business inqueries, feel free to email me at [gballantine@bitgoblin.tech](mailto:gballantine@bitgoblin.tech).
+Unfortunately money doesn't grow on trees, and a lot of the stuff that I purchase to make videos on can be quite expensive. My content is available free-of-charge on YouTube, but if you don't mind helping support me financially any help would be much appreciated.
+
+The primary way to support my work is through donations on [my Patreon page](https://patreon.com/BitGoblin). I don't have any reward tiers over there yet, but I do plan on adding some rewards at some point in the future.
+
+You can also support me by [joining Honey using my referral link](https://www.joinhoney.com/ref/9ohqcf9)! Honey helps you save money on popular websites by searching for coupons to get you discounts while you're shopping. And the best part is that it's free!
+