Featherweight is an ultra-lightweight Jekyll theme, aiming to minimise bandwidth usage and deliver a bare-bones experience (page sizes of ~1kb).

Replacing X with Y

X	Y
Blog search	ctrl+f
Post styling	Reader view
Sharing links	Copy/paste the URL

Getting started

1. Customise website ownership, update personal links, and detail CV experience using _config.yml.
2. Update _pages/about.md with an introduction.
3. Write some blogs, using _posts/test.md as a template.
4. You're ready to host your minimalist site!

Building on GitHub

If you're using this site on GitHub pages, the built-in build action won't run gems outside of the supported plugins list, e.g.: the jekyll-loading-lazy gem (which adds loading="lazy" tags to iframes and img tags, enabling faster initial page loads).

To enable these gems, use the build_and_deploy.yml action under .github/workflows to automatically build your site on pushes, which circumvents this restriction while still hosting to GitHub pages (as advised by Jekyll).

The workflow pushes the build to gh-pages branch by default, so make sure this exists and your pages settings points towards it.

Notes

RSS	The RSS feed can be found at https://yourgithubusername.github.io/feed.
Sitemap	The sitemap can be found at https://yourgithubusername.github.io/sitemap.
Quickstart	Test your website locally by following the Jekyll quickstart guide.
Naming convention	When naming blog post files, use the YYYY-MM-DD-title.md convention, or else your post won't appear in the blog post list. Read the Jekyll docs.