<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://glacier-cybertech.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://glacier-cybertech.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-19T20:15:52+00:00</updated><id>https://glacier-cybertech.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Glacier’s Tech Blog</title><subtitle>my blog about my journey learning cybersec!</subtitle><author><name>Niko</name></author><entry><title type="html">Learning to write blog posts, by writing a blog post</title><link href="https://glacier-cybertech.github.io/2026/04/19/writing-a-blog.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Learning to write blog posts, by writing a blog post" /><published>2026-04-19T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-04-19T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://glacier-cybertech.github.io/2026/04/19/writing-a-blog</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://glacier-cybertech.github.io/2026/04/19/writing-a-blog.html"><![CDATA[<h1 style="color:hotpink;"> Learning to write blog posts, by writing a blog post </h1>

<p>this will be the first blog post I create! i will be using this blog to document my progress learning cybersecurity and technology as I have a large interest in these fields, and the first step to doing that is actually setting up the blog</p>

<h2 style="color:hotpink;"> Jekyll </h2>

<p>for this blog, I will be using jekyll hosted on github pages, which is completely free!
i followed this tutorial from chads blog, and used the jekyll template to create a repository!
https://chadbaldwin.net/2021/03/14/how-to-build-a-sql-blog.html</p>

<h3 style="color:hotpink;"> Github pages </h3>

<p>Github pages is a service offered by github, that allows you to host your own static website on github for free!
To create a github pages website, you must create a new repository on your github account using the same name as your github, plus .github.io!
Github will automatically handle deploying your pages to the internet whenever you make a change
For example, to create my github pages I created a new repository named</p>
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  <p>glacier-cybertech.github.io</p>
</blockquote>

<p>this will be the same url as the website it creates!</p>

<p><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glacier-cybertech/glacier-cybertech.github.io/refs/heads/main/images/Screenshot%202026-04-19%20144328.png" alt="Screenshot of my Blog Repo" /></p>

<h2 style="color:hotpink;"> Configuring the blog </h2>
<p>now that the blog is created, it should appear at (your-username).github.io !
however, the currently blog is just a default template, so we need to configure it!
To configure the basic information, we go into the _config.yml file, where we can change things such as the name, description, and theme of our blog!
i also went into the index.md file, which will be the main page for my blog site, and copied over the readme.md file i made for my github profile</p>

<p>now my blog is configured and working and i can write .md files in the posts directory to add a post!</p>]]></content><author><name>Niko</name></author><category term="Other" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Learning to write blog posts, by writing a blog post]]></summary></entry></feed>