Linux: Installing Ubuntu on External SSD from ISO Image (Rufus)
How to install Ubuntu on an external SSD using an ISO image and Rufus, without modifying the host system.
Environment: Jekyll – Toolchain Configuration (VS Code, Git, SSH, Ruby)
Configuration of a local development environment for a Jekyll blog: Git, SSH, Ruby (DevKit) and local build workflow.
Linux: Shell Commands – Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet of the commonly used Unix and Linux commands with examples of working with streams and pipes.
Jekyll Blog: Blog statistics in Chirpy theme – Liquid
Adding a blog statistics panel in the Chirpy theme: number of posts, categories, tags and total reading time generated statically by Jekyll using Liquid.
Jekyll Blog: Sidebar Footer in the Chirpy Theme – CSS
How to add a custom footer to the sidebar in the Chirpy theme.
Jekyll Blog: Pinned Posts in the Chirpy Theme – CSS
How to add a custom custom.css file in the Chirpy theme and highlight pinned posts without modifying theme files.
Tools: Generating Web Images from PDF (Poppler + ImageMagick)
Convert PDF to PNG using Poppler (pdftoppm) and process the image with ImageMagick to generate blog-ready web images.
LaTeX: VS Code instead of TeXstudio – step-by-step
Step-by-step LaTeX setup in VS Code: installing TeX Live, configuring LaTeX Workshop with latexmk, enabling PDF preview and SyncTeX, and organizing the build directory with Git.
LaTeX: Hello World – a (Nearly) Minimal Example
A LaTeX 'Hello World' in two variants: a minimal file and a practical template with preamble, packages, sections, math, a figure and bibliography, plus the basics of compiling to PDF.
Jekyll Blog: Icons – CSS classes and Font Awesome
How icons work in the Chirpy theme: using Font Awesome via CSS classes in HTML, plus a simple Python script that generates an icon grid in Markdown.