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

• Posts: Blog entries, observation, TIL (thing i learned).. with metadata-based categorization and taging.
• Pages: Static content (About, Meta, Documentation)
• Images: my photos

Technical Features

• Responsive design with fullscreen image overlays
• Hierarchical category system
• Tag-based content organization
• Image galleries with EXIF data preservation
• RSS feed support
• No React, No node/npm for building or serving.
• Simple, inline Javascript as much as possible.
• Meta information page with site management links
• A Mosaic/Bricks approach could be great, simply self adjusting blocks for everything - nav, structure, lists, documents…
• A pure text only view too - accessible view that anyone can use.

Management & Development

The site is automatically built and deployed via GitHub Actions.

Key Management Links

• GitHub Pages Status
• Google Search Console
• Google Analytics
• GoDaddy

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.