some-natalie / github-pages-with-jekyll

Hi there 👋

I'm Natalie, a DevSecOps engineer and consultant experienced in developer experience and consolidation within a wide array of security-focused environments. I work at the intersection of technology, people, and highly-regulated industries as a Principal Federal Solutions Engineer at Chainguard!

📝 I write about tech, what I'm working on, and what I'm playing with on my blog. Here's what I've been up to lately:

1. Reducing CVEs in actions-runner-controller: (Kubernoodles, part 9 of ?) - The same actions-runner-controller you know and love (or curse), but with many fewer CVEs to generate compliance paperwork.
2. GraphQL patterns to know: Handy snippets, tips, and tricks for working in GraphQL I struggled for so you don't have to.
3. Intro to GraphQL using custom fields in GitHub Projects: Getting started with the new GitHub Issues and Projects API, exclusively in GraphQL, doesn't have to be so difficult.

💼 Day to day, I work with

• Linux (mostly RHEL and Ubuntu these days) - fedora-acs-override
• Kubernetes - kubernoodles, self-hosted GitHub Actions runners made for humans
• Software development in highly regulated industries (ITAR, CMMC, NIST 800-171, DoD IL 2-6)
• Python - Advanced Security CSV export
• Go - gh-org-admin-promote
• GitHub Enterprise - enterprise security team, audit and compliance reporting
• but mostly, I work with people on all of the above! 💖

You can find me in our work Slack sharing all sorts of neat things you can do with all that fun stuff and probably find out how I've broken and maybe fixed something too. 😀

👾 I play with

• All sorts of handy Raspberry Pi projects, including
  • Kodi set up on a television for local media (build directions)
  • OpenWRT router (build directions)
  • Pi-hole, for DNS and ad-blocking (build directions)
  • Ubiquiti UniFi network controller, in Docker of course
• I'm getting into the Flipper Zero lately - it's so handy and mischievous! (some fun uses)
• Video games in a Windows VM on my Fedora desktop with libvirt, KVM, and a custom Linux kernel to pass hardware to it. It's got about 5% or so performance drop (just looking at frame rates) over a native install. You should check it out - code and write-up on how it works.

I have an awesome life outside of tech, so while I have a few projects that I enjoy (👆), nothing above is close to where I spend most of my time / energy. If you need anything of mine above fixed, please feel free to fork it and send me a pull request! ❤️

Heads up!

• 🌱 I’m currently studying to sit for my OSCP certification and learning to write better conference talk proposals.
• 🎤 Public speaking is fun! Check out what I've been up to here.
• 😄 Pronouns: she/her
• ❓ Looking for my résumé? It's here, but you can also find some of what I've been up to in my profile. If you want to know about where else I've worked and went to school, you should go to LinkedIn.
• 💬 Want to chat? I'm on Mastodon.

github-pages-with-jekyll's Issues

Getting ready to blog

Step 4: Customize Site Details

Great work! You can see your published page here. If you don't see your changes right away, refresh the page.

Getting your page blog ready

Jekyll uses a file titled _config.yml to store settings for your site, your theme, and reusable content like your site title and GitHub handle.

You can check out the _config.yml file on the Code tab of your repository.

⌨️ Activity: Modify the config file

Let's change the _config.yml so it's a perfect fit for your new blog. First, we need to use a blog-ready theme. For this activity, we will use a theme named minima.

1. Navigate to the Code tab of this repository, and browse to the _config.yml file, or click this link here.
2. In the upper right corner, click ✏️ to open the file editor.
3. Add a theme: set to minima so it shows in the _config.yml file as below:

   theme: minima
   

4. Modify the other configuration variables such as title:, author:, and description: to customize your site.
5. Click Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request.
6. Open a pull request.

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Look for my next response in your pull request.

Welcome

Step 1: Enable GitHub Pages

Welcome to GitHub Pages and Jekyll 🎉!

If you're new to GitHub Pages, or you want to learn how to build and host a GitHub Pages site, you're in the right place. With GitHub Pages, you can host content like documentation, resumes, or any other static content that you’d like.

In this course, you'll create a blog hosted on GitHub Pages and learn how to:

• Enable GitHub Pages
• Use Jekyll, a static site generator
• Customize Jekyll sites with a theme and content

New to GitHub?

For this course, you'll need to know how to create a branch on GitHub, commit changes using Git, and open a pull request on GitHub. If you need a refresher on the GitHub flow, check out the Introduction to GitHub course.

⌨️ Activity: Generate a GitHub Pages site

The first step to publishing your blog to the web is to enable GitHub Pages on this repository ^📖. When you enable GitHub Pages on a repository, GitHub takes the content that's on the main branch and publishes a website based on its contents.

1. Under your repository name, click Settings.
2. In the "GitHub Pages" section, in the Source drop-down, select main branch.

After GitHub Pages is enabled and the site is started, we'll be ready to create some more content.

Turning on GitHub Pages creates a deployment of your repository. I may take up to a minute to respond as I await the deployment.

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