Modifying the social buttons

11 Jun 2015 . tech . Comments
#tutorial

Social buttons (rendered above the footer) are great for having a small hub with all your social footprint.

You can edit them with the following variables:

social:
  - icon: "github"
    url: "https://github.com/le4ker/personal-jekyll-theme"
  - icon: "linkedin-in"
    url: "https://www.linkedin.com"
  - icon: "x-twitter"
    url: "https://twitter.com/"
  - icon: "rss"
    url: "https://le4ker.github.io/personal-jekyll-theme/feed.xml"

The icon selects the desired Font Awesome icon from the loaded version and it shouldn’t include the fa- prefix, since it’s prepended automatically.

Me

'Github''s Octocat was designed by Simon Oxley, alongside the white bird Twitter used (before they received a proper logo) as part of a usual routine of cranking out images for iStock. GitHub saw it, and wanted it, presumably under the notion that it can represent how complex code combines to create peculiar things, much like the octopuss... except the CEO of GitHub called it an octocat, and it has been the octocat since then.