Matthew Hockert

Matthew Hockert

PhD Student in Applied Economics

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CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

Academic personal website for Matthew Hockert, built with Jekyll 3.9.5 on the academicpages template (forked from Minimal Mistakes theme). Hosted on GitHub Pages and auto-deployed from the main branch.

Live site: https://matthewhockert.github.io

Build & Development Commands

# Install Ruby dependencies
bundle install

# Local dev server with live reload (primary command)
bundle exec jekyll liveserve

# Build static site (outputs to _site/)
bundle exec jekyll build

# Minify JavaScript (rarely needed, only when editing JS plugins)
npm run uglify

Note: _config.yml is NOT reloaded on live rebuild — restart the server after config changes.

Architecture

This is a Jekyll static site. Content flows through: Markdown/HTML files → Liquid templates (_layouts/ + _includes/) → static HTML in _site/.

Content locations

  • _pages/ — Main site pages (about, publications, CV, blog, projects, flashcards, data)
  • _posts/ — Blog posts (named YYYY-MM-DD-title.md)
  • _publications/ — Academic publication entries
  • files/ — Downloadable assets (PDFs, Anki decks, datasets)
  • images/ — Site images including profile photo

Template system

  • _layouts/ — Page templates: default.html (base) → single.html (standard page), post.html, home.html
  • _includes/ — Reusable components (header, footer, sidebar, author profile, SEO)
  • _sass/ — SCSS stylesheets; compiled to assets/css/main.css

Configuration

  • _config.yml — Site settings, author info, collections, plugin config, default layouts
  • _config.dev.yml — Development overrides (localhost URL, expanded CSS)
  • _data/navigation.yml — Top navigation menu links
  • _data/ui-text.yml — UI string translations

Collections (defined in _config.yml)

The site uses Jekyll collections for structured content: posts and publications. Each collection maps to a corresponding _collectionname/ directory. Default front matter (layout, author profile visibility) is set per-collection in _config.yml.

JavaScript

jQuery-based with plugins bundled into assets/js/main.min.js. Source plugins live in assets/js/plugins/. The npm run uglify script concatenates and minifies them.

  • images/ — Profile photo and favicon/manifest files only