Productivity Tools, Tips & Tricks

A curated hub of productivity tips, shortcuts, and workflows for developers — Visual Studio, CMD Prompt, Windows, and more — plus a showcase of personal projects and a blog for longer-form notes.

Live site: lokeshgovindu.github.io

What's here

• Windows / CMD Prompt / Visual Studio — curated tools, extensions, and shortcuts. Every tool and extension has its own dedicated page (e.g. /windows/powertoys/), so it can carry its own comment thread instead of one shared thread per category.
• My Work — a showcase of personal projects, each with its own page.
• Blog — longer-form notes, written and published through the site itself (see below).
• Search — press Ctrl + K (or Cmd + K) anywhere on the site, or visit /search/. Fuzzy search across tools, tips, projects, and posts, filterable by category or tag.
• Light / dark mode — toggle in the navbar; respects your OS preference by default.
• Comments — via giscus (backed by GitHub Discussions) on tool, extension, and project pages.

Tech stack

• Jekyll static site generator, hosted on GitHub Pages
• kramdown for Markdown, with jekyll-sitemap and jekyll-feed
• Plain HTML/CSS/vanilla JS — no build step, no frontend framework
• Bootstrap 5 and Font Awesome 6, vendored locally under assets/vendor/ (not loaded from a CDN)
• Fuse.js for client-side fuzzy search
• giscus for comments
• Google Analytics (GA4) for traffic analytics

Writing a blog post

There are two ways to publish a post — you don't need a local dev environment for either:

1. Through the site itself — go to /admin/, sign in with a fine-grained GitHub personal access token scoped to this one repo (Contents: Read and write), and use the editor. Supports new posts, drafts (private until you publish them), editing/renaming/deleting existing posts, and image uploads — all committed straight to this repo via GitHub's API, no git required.
2. By hand — add a file to _posts/ named YYYY-MM-DD-your-title.md with title (and optionally tags) in the front matter, then Markdown below. The filename's date controls sort order and the displayed date; the URL itself is just /blog/your-title/, with no date in it.

Running locally

Prerequisites: Ruby and Bundler. On Windows, a native gem in the dependency chain also needs the MSYS2/MinGW toolchain — if bundle install fails trying to compile a gem, run ridk install and choose option 3 (MSYS2 and MINGW development toolchain).

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080

Then open http://127.0.0.1:8080. On Windows, start-website.bat does the same thing and opens the site in your browser automatically.

Continuous integration

Every push and pull request against master runs a GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/build-check.yml) that:

• Builds the site with Jekyll
• Checks every generated .js file for syntax errors
• Confirms robots.txt renders as plain text, not wrapped in the site's HTML layout
• Checks every internal link and same-page #fragment resolves to something real (script/check_links.rb), catching broken links from renames or restructuring before they reach the live site