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+Hi, I'm Jacob. This repo contains my personal website, hosted and served at [jahoo.github.io](http://jahoo.github.io) by GitHub Pages.
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+This jekyll site is a heavily modified version of [minima](https://github.com/jekyll/minima) theme. I use the [jekyll-scholar](https://github.com/inukshuk/jekyll-scholar/) plugin in order to render BibTeX. The plugin is not supported by GitHub Pages currently for automatic generation, so I build the site locally and push.  This basic workflow, sketched below, is based on that by @alshedivat, copied from the [al-folio](https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio) theme.
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 ## Workflow
 
 Because jekyll-scholar isn't in the list of GitHub-sanctioned plugins, we need a workaround. Here it is.
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 Answer `y`. 
 
-- This will build the site from `source` branch (`bundle exec jekyll build` ) and put the resulting site on the `master` branch, where github pages will find it and serve it at [jahoo.github.io](http://jahoo.github.io)
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+- This will build the site from `source` branch (`bundle exec jekyll build` ) and put the resulting site on the `master` branch, where github pages will find it and serve it at [jahoo.github.io](http://jahoo.github.io)