https://arwedus.github.io/Thoughts on Programming, Technology and SoftwareNotes and solutions on programming, technology and software. 2026-10-16T13:17:32+02:00 Arwed Starke https://arwedus.github.io/ Jekyll © 2026 Arwed Starke /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png Publishing a Jekyll site with a custom GitHub Actions workflow2026-10-16T00:00:00+02:00 2026-10-16T00:00:00+02:00 https://arwedus.github.io/posts/publishing-jekyll-on-github-pages/ Arwed Starke After I migrated my WordPress blog to a Jekyll site, one very important step remained: publishing that site to https://arwedus.github.io/. Creating a Github Pages Site I followed the GitHub documentation on creating a GitHub Pages site with Jekyll to set up the repository. When you create a repository whose name ends with .github.io, GitHub automatically adds a pages-build-deployment workflow... From WordPress export to a Jekyll site2026-10-15T00:00:00+02:00 2026-10-15T00:00:00+02:00 https://arwedus.github.io/posts/wordpress_export_to_jekyll/ Arwed Starke In the previous post I converted my WordPress blog into Markdown files. This post covers the second half: turning those files into a working Jekyll site that I can publish on GitHub Pages. Starting point The converter left me with one folder per year. Each post is either a single YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md file, or a YYYY-MM-DD-slug/ folder containing an index.md and an images/ subfolder: 2014/ 20... Exporting a WordPress blog to Markdown2026-08-21T00:00:00+02:00 2026-08-21T00:00:00+02:00 https://arwedus.github.io/posts/wordpress_export_to_markdown/ Arwed Starke My workflows are increasingly based on docs-as-code and Markdown. Markdown files are easy to access locally, quick to edit and search, and work well with the tools I use to build a personal knowledge base. For those reasons, I decided to move the content of my WordPress blog to Markdown. The wordpress-export-to-markdown project does exactly that: it converts a WordPress export file into Markdo... How to make docker in VS Code devcontainer use the host network2025-02-21T00:00:00+01:00 2025-02-21T00:00:00+01:00 https://arwedus.github.io/posts/how-to-make-docker-in-vs-code-devcontainer-use-the-host-network/ Arwed Starke If you have a complex set up, e.g. with VPN and proxy, and docker with an isolated (bridge) network is unable to connect to the internet or is even mis-configuring your DNS name resolution on the host machine (I will add another post on that), the docker option --network=host often helps. It tells docker to simply re-use the network connections of the host machine. However, this is not the def... How to tar files matching a given name pattern in all subdirectories2024-03-07T00:00:00+01:00 2024-03-07T00:00:00+01:00 https://arwedus.github.io/posts/how-to-tar-files-matching-a-given-name-pattern-in-all-subdirectories/ Arwed Starke This is just a quick repost of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18731603/how-to-tar-certain-file-types-in-all-subdirectories, because I find it so useful: Given a directory with deeply nested subdirectories, and I want to just extract e.g. all *.yaml configuration files, this is the command to do it: find . -name "*.yaml" | tar -cvf my_archive -T -