Jim Collinsworth

jimcollinsworth.github.io

Jim Collinsworth - Out of My Lane website/blog

Overview

This repository contains my personal website and blog built using Nikola, a static site generator. The site features a clean, modern design with a focus on sharing thoughts, projects, and art related to computing and technology, along with other interests that extend beyond my core expertise.

The front page should have tagline/id, then some highlighted posts and my current ‘lanes’, like ‘learning piano’, ‘photography’, this list changing on activity/priority. Then links/tag/category clouds.

To create a new post with template

TIL

nikola new_post -t “TIL: Git Rebase” -f markdown -1 –template=note.tmpl.md –meta=”note_type=TIL” posts/notes/til-git-rebase.md

Opinion

nikola new_post -t “Thoughts on Static Sites” -f markdown -1 –template=note.tmpl.md –meta=”note_type=opinion” posts/notes/static-sites-opinion.md

Goal

nikola new_post -t “Learn Python Testing” -f markdown -1 –template=note.tmpl.md –meta=”note_type=goal” posts/notes/goal-python-testing.md

Content Structure

Categories

  1. Projects
    • Data Analysis & Visualization
    • Site Development & Operations
    • Home Automation
    • No Commercials
    • Music & Art - My studies, work, and others work.
      • Piano
      • Guitar
      • Photography
      • Drawing
  2. Lanes (Areas/Interests)
    • Finance
    • Politics
    • Health
      • Tai Chi
    • Family
    • STEM
      • Anatomy
      • Weather (can post observations)
    • Music
      • Guitar
      • Piano
    • Art
      • Photography
      • Drawing
  3. References (data file, with optional annotation). References can be linked to from posts, like a review.
    • Books: refs/books/nanotechnology-godsell.md
    • Research Papers:
    • Urls
    • Quotes

Content Types

Technical Features

Management & Development

The site is automatically built and deployed via GitHub Actions.

Local Development

  1. Install Nikola
  2. Clone this repository
  3. Run nikola build to generate the site
  4. Run nikola serve to preview locally

License

Content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.