In terms of content, I added a biography about my academic life, a short list of my general non-academia proclivities, and a fun section on joking-but-serious goals in my life, with GIFs underneath. I ended with a link to my LinkedIn if people wanted to learn more about me.
I initially made a couple small errors, for example, not leaving a space after the #, which is how the program recognizes the text is a header. But, the preview button helped me catch the errors before submitting. However, I’m happy I checked the upload to mygithub because one of my image links did not load properly, even though it showed up in the preview. I fixed it in my local repository, restaged, and committed, then pushed it up to mygithub.
I only had one real struggle: trying to add an image NOT from online (i.e. R studio file or local desktop). I googled, looked at StackOverflow, tried to see if the knitr package would solve it, etc. I couldn’t set up the pathway properly, so I caved and uploaded the image to Imgur. One of the tutorials I read recommended imgur, and it was great because it came with all the relevant codes/links for R markdown already.
The workflow was straightforward after watching the tutorial video (thank you!). I ended up committing a few too many times, but, otherwise, not a problem.
Jonathan Johnson - Comments and Reflection
In terms of content, I added a biography about my academic life, a short list of my general non-academia proclivities, and a fun section on joking-but-serious goals in my life, with GIFs underneath. I ended with a link to my LinkedIn if people wanted to learn more about me.
Incorporating these elements was intuitive and easy given the guide provided (https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/#syntax). For almost everything, I simply followed this guide. I wanted to add GIFs (because it is more fun), so I found this website, which was helpful: https://blogdown-demo.rbind.io/2018/01/31/gif-animations/
I initially made a couple small errors, for example, not leaving a space after the #, which is how the program recognizes the text is a header. But, the preview button helped me catch the errors before submitting. However, I’m happy I checked the upload to mygithub because one of my image links did not load properly, even though it showed up in the preview. I fixed it in my local repository, restaged, and committed, then pushed it up to mygithub.
I only had one real struggle: trying to add an image NOT from online (i.e. R studio file or local desktop). I googled, looked at StackOverflow, tried to see if the knitr package would solve it, etc. I couldn’t set up the pathway properly, so I caved and uploaded the image to Imgur. One of the tutorials I read recommended imgur, and it was great because it came with all the relevant codes/links for R markdown already.
The workflow was straightforward after watching the tutorial video (thank you!). I ended up committing a few too many times, but, otherwise, not a problem.