About a year ago, I started a side project for fun as well as the need to keep track of my daily expenses in my own way. The outcome, Abacus, is an expenses bookkeeping web service (still under active development, but in good shape), which I have been using for months.

Abacus uses Django as the website backend engine, providing webpages for users to record, view and manage their daily expenses transactions in groups. Additionally, Abacus also has a Telegram bot interface to accomplish the same bookkeeping actions in Telegram chat. Abacus is meant to be deployed on a home PC as a self-hosted web service for personal use.

Hugo is another popular static site generator that runs faster than Jekyll. Recently, I migrated my blog from Github Page + Jekyll Now to Cloudflare Pages + Hugo.

Jekyll Gist is a plugin to embed a gist into the static pages (Jekyll-Gist Repository).

It is enabled at the backend of GitHub Page by default, and can be used as a liquid tag as follows:

{% gist 46b4401513cdbd8b2390172344157b7a UnionFind.cpp %}

The long hash code can be found in the URL of a specific gist repo. The Jekyll backend would render it to be a JavaScript tag. In addition, gist-it.appspot.com is a website providing JavaScript to embed files from a public github repository like a gist.

WayBack Machine is one of the services offered by Internet Archive, which documents all kinds of data on the Internet, such as web pages, books, videos, musics and so on.

WayBack Machine might help you find a website that is no longer up, or show you the evolution of it.

Jekyll is a static site generator that’s perfect for GitHub hosted blogs (Jekyll Repository).

Jekyll Now makes it easier to create your Jekyll blog, by eliminating a lot of the up front setup.