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  • Refactoring my personal website, Part 3: Share via social icons
    • Dev-Blog
    • Personal-website
    • Frontend
    • Web-Development

    Ultimately the goal of any content creator is to have their content reach as many people as possible. To help further this motive, one can enable their readers to share articles on social media.

    This article will guide you through setting up buttons with which users can share content on social media, shown in an exemplary way for Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Thereby, I will make use of Liquid, which is integrated in Jekyll to make the code as re-usable and modular as possible.

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  • Refactoring my personal website, Part 2: Syntax highlighting
    • Dev-Blog
    • Personal-website
    • Frontend

    Since most of the stuff I will be writing about in this blog will contain code snippets, some syntax highlighting that fits in well with the themeing of this website would be helpful.

    Thus, in this article I will detail how I set up custom syntax highlighting on this blog, including problems that I encountered and remedies for them.

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  • Refactoring my personal website, Part 1: The design
    • Dev-Blog
    • Personal-website
    • Frontend

    After initially creating a personal website as a small side project over a year ago, I had decided expand the project and add some more functionality to it, in particular the capability for blogging.

    In the first part of this blog series, I will explain how I approached completely overhauling the website's design.

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