Hi John! Can we add this post to tips & tricks?

Post:
https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2021-04-01-deploy-previews-with-netlifly/

Source:
https://github.com/shannonpileggi/pipinghotdata_distill/tree/master/_posts/2021-04-01-deploy-previews-with-netlifly

Thank you!

Such a great idea 👏 👏

Site name: Bayesian statistics with R
Site url: https://oliviergimenez.github.io/bayesian-stats-with-R/
Source code url: https://github.com/oliviergimenez/bayesian-stats-with-R

Thanks @jhelvy 😉

I'm not sure how to best do this, but it would be cool to have a page for blog posts about distill!

Examples:

• Thomas Mock Building a blog with distill
• Lisa Lendway Distill it down
• Vebash Naidoo Enable utterances with distill
• Frie Preu Misc tricks when migrating from blogdown to distill

Thanks for maintaining this site, it's been a great resource while I transition to Distill!

I wrote a post about using giscus (similar to utterances, but uses GitHub Discussions instead of Issues). I hope it can be added.

Blogpost: https://www.joelnitta.com/posts/2021-11-24_using-giscus/

Source: https://github.com/joelnitta/joelnitta-home/blob/main/_posts/2021-11-24_using-giscus/index.Rmd

it shows the links to go to your new website

The Distillery: Enable utterances with distill

https://distillery.rbind.io/posts/2021-02-19-enable-utterances-with-distill/

Data Sci Dani
Author: Danielle Brantley
URL to website: https://datascidani.com/
URL to source code: https://github.com/danielle-b/datascidani2

Hi, I'd like to share my custom distill-additions to the tips and tricks site. It comprises three additions:

1. A parallax scrolling landing page
2. Utterances comments (I know these have been covered before, so this is nothing new)
3. A custom 404 error page.

I'm not sure, whether this is sufficiently "custom" to qualify for the tips & tricks site, but if so, I'm happy to share my experiences:

• post: https://jollydata.blog/posts/2021-08-14-new-additions/
• source: https://github.com/nucleic-acid/jollydatablog/tree/main/_posts/2021-08-14-new-additions

Hi everyone! I began the distillery to help others find their way in the land of sitecrafting with {distill}. If you've found it helpful, feel free to let us know here!

Hi John,

Thanks for inviting me to contribute my syntax highlighting blog posts to the distillery! Here are the details

Part 1

Post: https://ellakaye.rbind.io/posts/2021-05-25-custom-syntax-highlighting-for-distill-part-1-modifying-the-default-theme/
Source: https://github.com/EllaKaye/ellakaye-distill/tree/main/_posts/2021-05-25-custom-syntax-highlighting-for-distill-part-1-modifying-the-default-theme

Part 2

Post: https://ellakaye.rbind.io/posts/2021-05-26-custom-syntax-highlighting-for-distill-part-2-creating-the-palette/
Source: https://github.com/EllaKaye/ellakaye-distill/tree/main/_posts/2021-05-26-custom-syntax-highlighting-for-distill-part-2-creating-the-palette

Hopefully I've set the directory/posts up in such a way that my syntax highlighting scheme still applies, even when built on the distillery.

I guess what not to do is as good as a tip as what to do?

Any who, here is a new post if you think it fits!

Modifying the GitHub repo containing my Distill website: Adventures with giscus (easier) and GitHub Actions (harder)

https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2021-12-13-modifying-the-github-repo-containing-my-distill-website/

name: Avishai M Tsur
url: https://avishaitsur.netlify.app/
source: https://github.com/avishaitsur/website

Hi! Can we add to the readme another section on how to submit blog posts to the tips & tricks section? Either with issues or pull requests?

This might be useful for tips and tricks blogs: https://lextuga007.github.io/PhilosopherAnalyst/posts/2021-01-31-adding-disqus-to-distill-blogs/ I published this under my blog name of Philosopher Analyst but I'm happy for my name to be referenced - Zoë Turner, thanks.

Thanks for collecting distill sites in one place. Please add mine. Here are the details:

Site Name: Umair Durrani
Site URL: https://udurrani.netlify.app/
Source URL: https://github.com/durraniu/udurrani_distill

Howdy! Here's a new submission for you.

Site name: API Food Assets Map
URL: https://foodmap.apicouncil.org
Source code: https://github.com/rfortherestofus/api-food-asset-map

I did a bunch of custom CSS (including using TailwindCSS) to make it look a bit less like a distill site, but you can still see it in there!

Name: The Q
Author: Quang Nguyen
URL: https://qntkhvn.netlify.app
Source code: https://github.com/qntkhvn/qblog

Thanks! Loved the distillery!

@etiennebacher, looks like the monthly deploy failed. It seems it just gets stuck on taking the screenshots for some reason. Here's what the build log says:

https://alexkgold.space/ screenshot completed
https://lab.abj.org.br/ screenshot completed
https://oliviergimenez.github.io/bayesian-stats-with-R/ screenshot completed
https://beatrizmilz.com/ screenshot completed
https://milesmcbain.xyz/ screenshot completed
https://datascidani.com/ screenshot completed
https://emitanaka.org/ screenshot completed
https://www.ericekholm.com/ screenshot completed
https://www.etiennebacher.com/ screenshot completed
https://hfshr.xyz screenshot completed
https://ijeamaka-anyene.netlify.app/ screenshot completed
https://jmbuhr.de screenshot completed
https://jeffreyasselin.netlify.app/ screenshot completed
Attempting to interrupt gracefully; press Esc/Ctrl+C to force interrupt


Execution halted
Error: The operation was canceled.

It stayed on that task for 6 hours again before it quit. I don't think anything is wrong with the site or the workflow, just that the screenshot process freezes mid-way.

Perhaps there is a way to add an internal timer where if the screenshot isn't taken after maybe 60 seconds it skips that site and moves on?

Hi @jhelvy! I came to the Distillery to see if I could find any resources that might help with Oscar Baruffa's distill yaml question but the Tips & Tricks page didn't load

Hi!
I would like to contribute to the example websites using the distill package.
I created the website named bibliometriar https://bibliometriar.com/ to explain bibliometric analysis in R in spanish.
The url to the source code is https://github.com/guillermo-orjuela/bibliometriar

The Distillery: How to create a gallery in Distill

https://distillery.rbind.io/posts/2021-04-11-how-to-create-a-gallery-in-distill/

Name: Adam Garber
website url: www.adam-garber.com
source code: https://github.com/garberadamc/acg-distill

Jannik Buhr's site (https://jmbuhr.de/) doesn't currently use Distill, so it's a bit confusing to have it in the showcase.

name: phoebe thatcher
URL: http://phoebethatcher.com
source code: here

the distillery was super inspiring and helpful while I was building this website, thanks for compiling all this!

Hi there...

Wanted to add me to the Showcase list. Not a lot there yet but working on it. :)

SiteName: Jón Grétar
URL: http://JonGretar.com
Code: https://github.com/JonGretar/JonGretar.github.io

I just converted my personal academic website to distill. It is basic, but could be a nice starting place for a novice.

name: Elea McDonnell Feit
site: eleafeit.com which directs to eleafeit.github.io/emf
source: https://github.com/eleafeit/emf

Hi, I'm just wondering if it would be relevant to automatically refresh the list of sites in the showcase part. This would have two purposes:

• update the screenshot of the website, so that it corresponds to the current look of the website and not the look it had when it was added to the list;
• check if URLs are valid and remove websites whose URL doesn't work anymore (for example because one wants to change the domain name).

Since these two cases don't happen very often, maybe use github actions to refresh this list once per month?

name: Sequence Analysis - Companion Site
url: https://sa-book.github.io/
source: https://github.com/sa-book/sa-book.github.io

Thank you for adding us and for your very valuable page, which helped us a lot when creating our own website.

Site name: LiteralFightNerd
Site url: https://literalfightnerd.com/
Source code url: https://github.com/NateLatshaw/LiteralFightNerd

Thanks for setting this up!

Hi @jhelvy - I updated the post here:

https://github.com/rbind/apreshill/tree/master/content/post/2020-12-22-postcards-distill

https://alison.rbind.io/post/2020-12-22-postcards-distill/

You are welcome to add it here! I'm not sure the process, but it cannot be imported due to the fact that it is embedded in a website (instead of a standalone article).

Thanks :)

[name]Jenna Eagleson
url
source

Name: IPUMS PMA Data Analysis Hub
Site URL: https://ipums.github.io/pma-data-hub/
Source Code: https://github.com/ipums/pma-data-hub

Thanks all. Distill has been a huge benefit to IPUMS data users since we adopted it for PMA this year.

Site name: werk.statt.codes
Site url: https://werk.statt.codes/
Source code url: https://github.com/werkstattcodes/distill_clean

Many thanks!

Name: Jeff's Journal
URL: https://jeffreyasselin.netlify.app/
Source: https://github.com/jassassin68/my-distill-site
Thanks!

• name: Blog of the Record Linkage Interest Group
• url: https://recordlinkageig.github.io/
• source: https://github.com/RecordLinkageIG/RecordLinkageIG.github.io

Thank you :)

Hello everyone, I have written a post on how to add certain features to distill websites/blogs. You can find the post link and its source code link below. There might be some typos that I would have missed, so if you find any please kindly fix them thank you.

Here is the link to the post and link to the source code of the post

Not sure how to do this, but it would be great to have a set of "features" that each site in the showcase has (e.g. "Blog", "Dark / Light Mode", etc.), and the user could filter sites based on these features. That way if they're looking for a specific feature to add to their site, they could more easily identify example sites that have those features.

Site name: Pedro J. Pérez
Site url: https://perezp44.github.io/pjperez.web/01_blog.html
Source code url: https://github.com/perezp44/pjperez.web

Thanks John!!!

Thank you for compiling this list of distill blogs!

Blog name: R-Vogg-Blog
URL: https://r-vogg-blog.netlify.app/
source code: https://github.com/richardvogg/r-vogg-blog

Hi John,

Thanks so much for putting this site together -- it's really great!

Could you add this post to the tips & tricks section?

Post:
https://www.ericekholm.com/posts/2021-04-02-personalizing-the-distill-template/

Source:
https://github.com/ekholme/ee-website/tree/master/_posts/2021-04-02-personalizing-the-distill-template

Thank you!

Eric