Setup Your Free Portfolio With A Blog Using GitHub Pages

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  • gp-blog

    This project is a showcase of how to setup a portfolio website using GitHub Pages, with the main accent put on the blogging part.

    For this tutorial, I will use a specific repository called gp-blog (for Github Pages Blog), which will therefore deploy at https://simondosda.github.io/gp-blog, but you most probably want to deploy your portfolio at the root folder.

  • Umami

    Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.

    This article is part of a series showing you how to quickly and freely build and host your own Jekyll blog on GitHub Pages. This series will also cover more advanced topics like adding a comment system directly in our code using Staticman and adding privacy-friendly but still free analytics using Umami.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • staticman

    💪 User-generated content for Git-powered websites

    This article is part of a series showing you how to quickly and freely build and host your own Jekyll blog on GitHub Pages. This series will also cover more advanced topics like adding a comment system directly in our code using Staticman and adding privacy-friendly but still free analytics using Umami.

  • pages-gem

    A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages

    This article is part of a series showing you how to quickly and freely build and host your own Jekyll blog on GitHub Pages. This series will also cover more advanced topics like adding a comment system directly in our code using Staticman and adding privacy-friendly but still free analytics using Umami.

  • Jekyll

    :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby

    This article is part of a series showing you how to quickly and freely build and host your own Jekyll blog on GitHub Pages. This series will also cover more advanced topics like adding a comment system directly in our code using Staticman and adding privacy-friendly but still free analytics using Umami.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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