Small style updates and adding descriptions back in for posts

bsclifton · Feb 27, 2023 · c8d6841 · c8d6841
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diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
@@ -16,11 +16,8 @@
 title: Brian Clifton
 email: [email protected]
 description: >- # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
-  Write an awesome description for your new site here. You can edit this
-  line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for
-  Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description.
 baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
-url: "" # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com
+url: "https://clifton.io" # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com
 
 # generate social links in footer
 twitter_username: _brianclifton

diff --git a/_posts/2015-05-18-ocd-and-anxiety-a-closer-look.md b/_posts/2015-05-18-ocd-and-anxiety-a-closer-look.md
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 ---
 layout: post
-title:  "OCD and anxiety: a closer look"
-date:   2015-05-18 21:42:00 -0700
+title: "OCD and anxiety: a closer look"
+description: "I live with Obsessive-compulsive disorder. I have it mostly under control, but sometimes there are bad days. This post elaborates on some of my challenges."
+date: 2015-05-18 21:42:00 -0700
 categories: ocd
 ---
 

diff --git a/_posts/2015-10-22-lessons-ive-learned.md b/_posts/2015-10-22-lessons-ive-learned.md
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 ---
 layout: post
-title:  "Lessons I’ve learned in the last 12 years"
-date:   2015-10-22 06:57:00 -0700
+title: "Lessons I’ve learned in the last 12 years"
+description: "Life changing lessons I've learned in my career as a software engineer. TL;DR: there's always room for improvement :)"
+date: 2015-10-22 06:57:00 -0700
 categories: career related
 ---
 

diff --git a/_posts/2016-04-09-sharing-my-love-for-programming.md b/_posts/2016-04-09-sharing-my-love-for-programming.md
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 ---
 layout: post
-title:  "Sharing my love for programming with kids"
-date:   2016-04-09 09:14:00 -0700
+title: "Sharing my love for programming with kids"
+description: "Pictures and info about a talk that Matt Smith and I did. We talked about programming with two classes at Madison #1 Middle School in Phoenix, AZ."
+date: 2016-04-09 09:14:00 -0700
 categories: giving back
 ---
 

diff --git a/_posts/2016-04-15-an-introduction-to-hosting.md b/_posts/2016-04-15-an-introduction-to-hosting.md
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 ---
 layout: post
-title:  "An introduction to hosting"
-date:   2016-04-15 09:00:00 -0700
+title: "An introduction to hosting"
+description: "What is hosting? This post answers that question by sharing examples and also explaining how your web browser communicates with hosting accounts."
+date: 2016-04-15 09:00:00 -0700
 categories: hosting
 ---
 

diff --git a/_posts/2016-08-07-leaving-godaddy.md b/_posts/2016-08-07-leaving-godaddy.md
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 ---
 layout: post
-title:  "Why I left a job I loved"
-date:   2016-08-07 13:06:00 -0700
+title: "Why I left a job I loved"
+description: "After 8 great years at GoDaddy and still loving my job, I left to join a small San Francisco startup, Brave Software. Why? Read and find out :)"
+date: 2016-08-07 13:06:00 -0700
 categories: career related
 ---
 

diff --git a/_posts/2018-02-07-why-im-not-interested-in-self-driving-cars.md b/_posts/2018-02-07-why-im-not-interested-in-self-driving-cars.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
 layout: post
 title:  "Why I'm not interested in self-driving cars"
+description: "I can definitely appreciate why folks want to solve the self-driving cars problem. But I personally believe that it's an overly complex problem which is not worth solving."
 date:   2018-02-07 23:28:00 -0700
 categories: thoughts
 ---

diff --git a/about.md b/about.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
 layout: page
 title: About me
+description: Some info about myself and my career.
 nav_title: About
 url: /about/
 permalink: /about/
@@ -16,7 +17,6 @@ It's been amazing seeing our company and product grow!
   <image src="/assets/about-brave-brendan.jpg" height="200px" />
   <image src="/assets/about-brave-chrome-cake.jpg" height="200px" />
   <image src="/assets/about-brave-cake-cut.jpg" height="200px" />
-
 </div>
 
 -----

diff --git a/assets/main.scss b/assets/main.scss
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ body {
 
     li {
       display: inline-block;
-      padding-right: 40px;
     }
     li + li {
       padding-top: 0;
@@ -75,6 +74,15 @@ body {
 
   .svg-icon {
     fill: #337ab7;
+    transform: scale(2.5);
+    margin-left: 25px;
+    margin-right: 25px;
+  }
+  .svg-icon:hover {
+    fill: #23527c;
+  }
+  .username {
+    display: none;
   }
 }
 

diff --git a/blog.md b/blog.md
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ---
-# Feel free to add content and custom Front Matter to this file.
-# To modify the layout, see https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/#overriding-theme-defaults
-
 layout: home
-title: Blog
+title: Blog - Thoughts, stories and ideas.
+description: Blog index. You'll find all entries here (newer entries on top).
 nav_title: Blog
 url: /blog/
 permalink: /blog/

diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 ---
-# Feel free to add content and custom Front Matter to this file.
-# To modify the layout, see https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/#overriding-theme-defaults
-
 layout: default-landing
+description: Brian Clifton is an American computer programmer and businessman living in Chandler, Arizona.
 ---
 
 <div class="landing-portrait-jumbo">

diff --git a/learn.md b/learn.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
 layout: page
 title: Learn programming
+description: Learn about programming! This post has a lot of great info to help get you started.
 nav_title: Learn
 url: /learn/
 permalink: /learn/