🚀 New Post Workflow - Super Simple!

The Absolute Easiest Way to Add a Blog Post

Option 1: Use File Explorer (Windows)

Open File Explorer → Navigate to:

C:\Users\Marti\Desktop\gith\simplisticmartin.github.io\_drafts\

Choose your template:
- CAREER-template.md → Work & career stuff
- AI-template.md → AI & machine learning
- QUANT-FINANCE-template.md → Finance & trading
- LEARNING-template.md → Study tips & courses
- PUBLIC-SPEAKING-template.md → Presentations
- YOUTUBE-template.md → Video content
- NONSENSE-template.md → Random fun stuff
Copy the template file

Paste it in the _posts folder:

C:\Users\Marti\Desktop\gith\simplisticmartin.github.io\_posts\

Rename it to today’s date + your title:
```
2026-01-21-my-awesome-post.md
```
Open in any text editor (VS Code, Notepad++, etc.)
Edit the top section (between the --- lines):
- Change the title
- Update the date
- Update the description
- Keep the category
Replace the template content with your actual blog post
Save the file
Done! Your post is ready!

Option 2: Use PowerShell (Quick)

# Navigate to project
cd C:\Users\Marti\Desktop\gith\simplisticmartin.github.io

# Copy template and rename in one step
Copy-Item "_drafts\CAREER-template.md" "_posts\2026-01-21-my-post-title.md"

# Open in VS Code (or your editor)
code "_posts\2026-01-21-my-post-title.md"

Edit and save!

📝 What to Edit in the Template

When you open the template, you’ll see this at the top:

---
layout: post                          ← KEEP THIS
title: "Your Post Title"              ← CHANGE TO YOUR TITLE
date: 2026-01-21 12:00:00            ← CHANGE TO TODAY'S DATE
categories: [career]                  ← KEEP OR CHANGE CATEGORY
tags: [tag1, tag2]                   ← ADD RELEVANT TAGS
author: Martin Li                     ← KEEP THIS
read_time: 5                         ← ESTIMATE READING TIME
description: "Brief summary"          ← WRITE A SHORT DESCRIPTION
image: /assets/images/blog/img.jpg   ← OPTIONAL: ADD IMAGE PATH
---

Below the --- is your actual blog content. Replace all the example text!

🎯 Real Example

Let’s say you want to write about your day at JPMorgan:

1. Copy template:

_drafts\CAREER-template.md 
→ 
_posts\2026-01-21-first-month-at-jpmc.md

2. Edit the front matter:

---
layout: post
title: "5 Things I Learned in My First Month at JPMorgan Chase"
date: 2026-01-21 14:00:00
categories: [career]
tags: [jpmorgan-chase, career-advice, software-engineering, fintech]
author: Martin Li
read_time: 6
description: "Lessons from my first month as a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase"
---

3. Write your content:

# Starting at JPMorgan Chase

My first month at JPMC has been incredible. Here's what I learned...

## Lesson 1: Enterprise Scale is Different

Working on systems that handle billions of transactions...

4. Save and preview:

bundle exec jekyll serve

5. Visit: http://localhost:4000/Blog.html

📊 How Your Post Will Appear

On Blog Page

┌─────────────────────────────┐
│  💼 [Your Image]            │
│                             │
│  📅 January 21, 2026        │
│  🏷️ career                  │
│                             │
│  Your Post Title            │
│                             │
│  Your description text...   │
│                             │
│  [Read More →]              │
└─────────────────────────────┘

When Filtered

Click “💼 Career” → Only career posts show
Click “🤖 AI” → Only AI posts show
Click “All” → All posts show

🎨 Category Color Coding

Your categories have consistent colors:

💼 Career → Teal
🤖 AI → Green
📈 Quant Finance → Turquoise
📚 Learning → Teal
🎤 Public Speaking → Green
🎥 YouTube → Turquoise
🎲 Nonsense → Teal

✅ Pre-Publish Checklist

Quick checklist before you publish:

☐ File name: 2026-MM-DD-title.md (with leading zeros)
☐ File location: _posts/ folder
☐ Title: Descriptive and engaging
☐ Date: Correct format
☐ Categories: At least one category
☐ Tags: 3-5 relevant tags
☐ Description: Under 160 characters
☐ Content: Spell-checked
☐ Preview: Looks good at localhost:4000

🚀 Publishing Workflow

Locally (Testing)

# Already running? Your post shows up automatically!
# Not running? Start server:
bundle exec jekyll serve

GitHub Pages (Live)

# After you're happy with your post:
git add _posts/2026-01-21-my-post.md
git commit -m "Add: New career post about JPMC"
git push origin master

# GitHub Pages will automatically build and deploy
# Live in ~2-5 minutes

💡 Content Ideas by Category

💼 Career

“Day in the life at JPMorgan Chase”
“Interview tips for software engineers”
“Career lessons learned”
“Tech stack at JPMC”

🤖 AI

“Implementing neural networks in PyTorch”
“Georgia Tech AI course review”
“AI project walkthroughs”
“Research paper summaries”

📈 Quant Finance

“Building a trading algorithm”
“Options pricing models”
“Portfolio optimization with Python”
“Financial data analysis”

📚 Learning

“How I balance work and OMSCS”
“Study techniques that work”
“Georgia Tech course reviews”
“Resource recommendations”

🎤 Public Speaking

“My first tech talk”
“Presentation tips”
“Overcoming stage fright”
“Creating effective slides”

🎥 YouTube

“New tutorial video”
“Behind the scenes”
“Video series announcement”
“Viewer Q&A”

🎲 Nonsense

“Random thoughts”
“Weekend adventures”
“Funny coding stories”
“Book/movie reviews”

🎉 You’re All Set!

Remember: Start with a template, fill it in, save to _posts/, and you’re done!

The blog system handles:

✅ Displaying your post
✅ Category filtering
✅ RSS feed
✅ SEO optimization
✅ Social sharing
✅ Mobile responsiveness

You just focus on writing great content! ✍️

Happy blogging! 🚀