dsillman2000.github.io

David Sillman's personal website and technical blog, hosted at www.dsillman.com.

Built with Jekyll 4 and the custom Swimmer theme (forked from Poole by @mdo), styled with Tailwind CSS v4. Deployed to GitHub Pages.

Prerequisites

• Ruby 3.3.2 (see .ruby-version)
• Node.js 24 (see .node-version; managed via fnm)
• Bundler (gem install bundler)

Setup

make install

This runs bundle install, npm install, and downloads the Inter and Roboto Mono variable fonts into assets/fonts/.

Development

make serve

Compiles Tailwind CSS, starts a watcher for CSS changes, and launches jekyll serve with live reload at http://localhost:4000.

Build

make build

Compiles Tailwind CSS and builds the Jekyll site into _site/.

Other commands

Command	Description
make css	Compile and minify Tailwind CSS only
make clean	Remove _site/ and .jekyll-cache/
make fonts	Re-download Inter and Roboto Mono fonts
make resume	Generate resume .docx and .pdf into assets/docs/

Project structure

_config.yml        Jekyll configuration
_css/              Tailwind CSS source partials (theme entry point: styles.css)
_includes/         Jekyll HTML partials (head, mathjax, sidebar)
_layouts/          Jekyll layout templates (default, page, post)
_posts/            Blog posts (Markdown)
assets/            Static assets (fonts, images, resume docs)
styles.css         Compiled Tailwind CSS output (generated)
Makefile           Build automation
build_resume.py    Resume generator script (python-docx)