athityakumar / athityakumar.github.io

The profile homepage and blog repository of Athitya Kumar.

Hey there, reader! 👋

My name is Athitya Kumar - yup, everyone gets the spelling and/or pronunciation wrong. I'm a graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (batch of 2019) and I'm currently employed at Intuit India. 🎉

I love writing - be it code, or blog. I've recently renewed my practise of blogging; you can find me writing at:

• My Own Blog
• Medium

Checkout my website to get to know more about me, and/or to dig up my social media profiles to stalk. 😛

athityakumar.github.io's Issues

[WIP] List of Blog Posts

Summary

No. of blog posts done : 6
No. of blog posts yet to be done : 11
Total no. of blog posts : 17

List of Blog posts

1. Hello World
2. Kharagpur Winter of Code 2016
3. The Covariance Confusion
4. GitHub Follower Notification App
5. A Ruby API gem for Inbound.org platform
6. A Tale of GitHub Usernames
7. Folklore of Indian stand-up comics
8. Experience of Inter-IIT Tech Meet 2017
9. GSoC 2017 - Application process for Daru
10. Life at IIT Kharagpur (S01)
11. Life at IIT Kharagpur (S02)
12. Life at IIT Kharagpur (S03)
13. Life at IIT Kharagpur (S04)
14. Life at IIT Kharagpur (S05)
15. Life at IIT Kharagpur (S06)
16. Intern Diary - Kantel Technologies
17. Intern Diary - PipeCandy
18. GSoC 2017 - Community Bonding Period at SciRuby (Daru)

Add 'subscribe' feature

Automate creation of all html files and links with ruby script

Add tests to page generation with rspec

Add support to attach blog post images from any hosted service

Add sitemap

AJAXify the form submission

Reference -

$.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "//formspree.io/[email protected]",
        data: $(form).serialize(), // serializes the form's elements.
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function(data)
        {
            $('.form-sent').slideDown(400); // show response from the php script.
        }
      });

Re-structure /blog/page{x} URL

Add better pagination feature

Add Gemfile for bundle install

Add content as json files

Add <meta> tags for SEO

All meta-data should be read from a configuration file, something like the _config.yml file used in Jekyll.

Add dark-mode

Lighten the repository

Images used in the blog tend to be taking a lot of space on the repository. Rather, they can be shifted to Google drive with appropriate link hrefs from each blog post's json / markdown detail.

Add blog posts as markdown files support (like Jekyll)

Preference

Each blog post file should be added as a .yml (YAML) format with a structure similar to the one given below. No more need for extra fields like hyperlinks / images. Store disqus keys in a single separate file.

Timestamp:	dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm

Title:	An apt title

Description:	A good description which is short enough to be a preview when shared on Facebook. 

Tags: 
    -   8
    -   10

Image preview:	image.png

Content:   |
    --- Divider ---
    
     _How are you_ *bold*

    :heart:

How to proceed

First of all, yaml gem will parse this .yml file. Next, the html key of this file will be parsed by redcarpet gem, to give a html translated string. Further, this string should be tweaked with additional features to fit the Semantic-UI template. Also, gh-emojis js library can be used to render the markdown emojis on the website.

For, example, --- X --- in markdown should be translated as a divider element in HTML. The [text](link) should be tweaked to open in a new tab. Also, !(image.png) should have ability to have css classes.

Try jekyll for blog

Update the homepage with GSoC content

Add README

Make a Jekyll equivalent for semantic-ui portfolio website

Add "X minutes read" stamp

Add CNAME to custom domain

Update homepage with current projects

Add share to Google+ button

Update info

Add "coming up next" based on drafts

A small "coming up next" section could act as a heads-up to anyone looking at the blog posts.

Add share to LinkedIn button

Rubocop

The index.rb file looks really random and messy, and needs to be beautified.

Add Travis CI check to rspec

This issue is to be encountered after issue #19 has been done.

Publish on Medium too

[Discussion] Separate file for Tags?

Currently, tags are given in the tags.json file with index given to each tag name. However, in traditional Jekyll sites, the tags are given manually in each post's markdown file.

Though the practice of Jekyll seems more "standard", having a separate Tags file makes it easy to add any metadata or changes to tags in the future.

Keep post numbers in reverse order

Currently, the most recent blog post is numbered 1, and the most oldest one is numbered as the last. Rather, though the most recent posts should be shown on page 1 of the blog, they should be numbered such that most oldest post is numbered as 1 and the rest of the posts are numbered in the increasing order of recent activity.

Add general Ruby 'Tutorial' blog posts

These blog posts intend to guide newbies, in sources such as Metakgp WIki.

Clean up the Ruby code