A collection of things I am working on, need to remember or find generally interesting to share

2017 13:25

How to get the IP address of a running VirtualBox VM

Getting the IP address from a running instance

If you have a VirtualBox VM running and want to know its IP address, then execute the below command:

2017 22:07

Adding Captions to Figures in Jekyll

Can my Figures have Captions?

Jekyll does not support adding caption to figures. Judging from this post, it doesn’t look like it will. Does this mean we cannot have captions? Fortunately no, it doesn’t. It means a bit of extra work to workaround the this limitation.

2017 17:51

Creating an Archive with Jekyll and GitHub

Introduction

There are a number of plugins available for Jekyll, which aid in creating archives. For example jekyll-archives. This plugins enables you to generate content at permalinks, i.e. https://www.example.com/2017/. Unfortunately, this plugin is not on the endorsed plugin list at GitHub. This means that this plugin is not usable when you publish on GitHub.

2016 14:33

Creating a Tag Page in Jekyll

Finding back a post

Writing a blog post is one thing, finding them back is another. These blog posts are not just about telling wonderful stories, but also a place where I put things I have learned. As you can imagine, I would like to find these pieces of information back. For that purpose I use tags. So, this means that there should be a page on which the posts are listed according to the tags it belongs to.