Jigsaw (14 posts)
Jigsaw is a PHP based Static Site builder based around Laravel's Blade templating engine. It uses markdown and blade.php templates to create a static html website. It takes about a second to run the build process. This is what i am using to make this website.
Adding A Twitter Card Meta Tag Image
November 25, 2022
Today I have added a Twitter Card image for when I link to a post from Twitter. I had to write a blog post for the Jigsaw Static Site generator to include the image in the build. Here it is:
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Script to run build script on save
March 5, 2021
Today I decided I wanted a script to auto build the site on each save of this jigsaw blog. I was playing with the css yesterday and liked the simplicity of the npm watch command, but wanted something...
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Getting your Github Pages site into Google
June 25, 2020
How I got Google to index / crawl my site by submitting it via the Google Search Console.
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Tailwind CSS
May 17, 2020
One thing i really liked about this Jigsaw static site generator is it comes with Tailwind Css and a working Laravel Mix / Webpack / PurgeCSS solution. Tailwind CSS is much more like coding CSS /...
Read this post ...My New Post Bash Shell Script
May 17, 2020
I like to make shell scripts to make my life easier. this is my current newPost script. It isnt very comlicated, but gives me a simple blank post, quickly. I would like it to format the $something...
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Using highlight.js
May 17, 2020
Jigsaw comes with highlightjs to show code blocks in colour, here is a CSS, HTML and Bash output for the jigsaw command
Read this post ...Internationalization Of A Jigsaw Static Site
May 17, 2020
Alongside playing with code, i like to learn Portuguese. So i was wondering this morning the best way to make a Portuguese version of the site. I would like a language switcher to swap between EN...
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Testing a blade.md template for a post
May 17, 2020
Trying to get a blade.md template to work as i expect.
Read this post ...Jigsaw experiment with ~20,000 pages
May 13, 2020
I wanted to try and experiment to see how many pages i can make in jigsaw, how long it would take to build and also would the search take it. My idea is to output markdown pages for the 20,000...
Read this post ...Jigsaw Ideas
May 9, 2020
I am still enjoying jigsaw and have a couple of ideas to improve my site with it. I really like the search provided out of the box with the jigsaw blog template. but I want to add the about page...
Read this post ...GRR, Duplicate Github Pages
May 9, 2020
12.26pm It took me all morning to fix this website deploy issue, there was an old old repo that was setup years ago as an experiment. I deleted that repo and now it is working as expected.
Read this post ...Jigsaw Templates
April 29, 2020
Working on templates for this static site. The mix of markdown and HTML isnt working. [ ] Daily page - template for each day, with a shell script to create it [ ] Code page - with examples of...
Read this post ...Jigsaw Static Site Thoughts
April 29, 2020
I was looking for a project to help me do a few things. write a blog, store reference material for things I am interested in, create a database of plants I like to grow, learn about markdown &...
Read this post ...Rainy Day - Thoughts about Debian
April 28, 2020
8.15am in bed, it is raining, wondering what to do today. I have been using Debian Linux for years, I guess about version 5. Recently I found the 4.9 kernel caused the computer to lock / freeze...
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