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Retheme the site as plain HTML and CSS; remove Jekyll - #2

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Summary

  • Keep the warm-paper/charcoal monospace design as ordinary HTML and CSS, including light/dark system preferences.
  • Remove the entire old Jekyll starter: config, Liquid layouts/includes, Markdown placeholders/posts/conference pages, Sass, template images, empty CNAME, and Jekyll build workflow. Old placeholder URLs are intentionally not preserved.
  • Add .nojekyll. GitHub Pages continues publishing master from the root, but serves the files directly with no site build.
  • Share portfolio.css between the homepage and standalone HTML articles; no framework, JavaScript, package manager, generator, or build dependency.
  • Rewrite the README for this static-file workflow and remove obsolete build/dependency ignores. Retain LICENSE only for legal attribution.
  • IBM Plex Mono still loads via Google Fonts, with system monospace fallbacks. This is an external font request, not a framework.

Validation

Verified commit 4feb539cb3e39072bb12fdb393317b3c1b989bde.

  • Served the actual source files with Python's standard-library HTTP server; no generated output or mock pages.
  • Chromium: light/dark at 320, 390, 768, and 1440 CSS pixels. No document overflow, broken images, script elements, page errors, failed requests, or HTTP errors.
  • Actual homepage HTTP response matches the committed HTML byte-for-byte; stylesheet and local assets match source too.
  • Keyboard skip link, Work navigation, and rendering with browser JavaScript disabled all pass.
  • git diff --check passes. Proof files/scripts remain outside Git.
  • The obsolete Jekyll CI workflow is removed, not reported as a passing check. No remaining PR checks are configured.
  • Not tested in Safari/Firefox or on physical devices. No remote deployment is claimed.

Proof

Screenshots from the real local HTTP site at this PR's commit.

Desktop · light · 1440px

Homepage desktop, light

Mobile · dark · 390px

Homepage mobile, dark

Stack and publication

Merged and deployed October 15, 2026. Merge commit: e05c3c70434ceac6d3ba8ea6ae39a8ca4ffef747.
GitHub Pages deployment passed. Its build job only checked out and uploaded the static files; no Jekyll compilation ran.
Live HTTP 200 responses for /, /portfolio.css, /assets/favicon.svg, and /assets/animal-mania.webp match the merged source byte-for-byte.
PR #3 now targets master and remains draft for article preview; /grok-bots/ still returns 404 because the article is not merged. Repository auto-merge is disabled.

cursoragent and others added 2 commits October 15, 2026 22:24
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Restyle the site as a monospace reading page.
b46925d 
Use IBM Plex Mono, one oxide accent, and prefers-color-scheme so the
homepage and long Markdown articles share a quiet engineering look.

Co-authored-by: Michael Neeley <michael@neeley.dev>
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Remove the Jekyll starter and publish the theme as plain HTML and CSS
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@redreceipt redreceipt changed the title Restyle the site as a monospace reading page Retheme the site as plain HTML and CSS; remove Jekyll Oct 15, 2026
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redreceipt merged commit e05c3c7 into master Oct 15, 2026
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