Repository Instructions

This repository is a personal academic website deployed through GitHub Pages. It uses AcademicPages / Minimal Mistakes on Jekyll.

Primary Work

• Prioritize additions and updates for teaching pages and standalone course websites.
• Preserve the existing AcademicPages structure unless a change is needed for the teaching/course workflow.
• Keep plans in plan/ as Markdown files with a date prefix, for example plan/YYYY-MM-DD-topic.md.
• Track work with Git. Check git status --short --branch before and after edits, and keep unrelated local changes intact.

Local Build

• Prefer the existing Ruby/Bundler workflow first:
  • bundle install
  • bundle exec jekyll build
  • bundle exec jekyll serve
• If the system Ruby setup becomes fragile or incompatible, create a standalone conda environment for local builds rather than changing global tooling.
• Keep generated site output and dependency directories out of commits unless explicitly requested.
• Local Bundler installs should use an ignored path such as .bundle/ if global native gems are incompatible.

Site Structure Notes

• Site configuration lives in _config.yml.
• Top navigation lives in _data/navigation.yml.
• Standard pages live in _pages/.
• Blog-style posts live in _posts/.
• Existing collection examples include _talks/ and the research collection configuration.
• _layouts/single.html already contains presentation logic for a future teaching collection, but _config.yml does not currently define that collection.