Personal Website — CLAUDE.md

Personal Website — CLAUDE.md

Project Overview

URL: https://pbrimble.github.io Repo: https://github.com/pbrimble/pbrimble.github.io Framework: Jekyll (academicpages theme, based on Minimal Mistakes) Purpose: Paul Brimble’s personal academic website — bio, research, CV, publications.

File Locations

ResourcePath
GitHub repo/Users/pbrimble/Github/pbrimble/pbrimble.github.io/
Overleaf (CV)/Users/pbrimble/University of Michigan Dropbox/Paul Brimble/Apps/Overleaf/pbrimble/

Site Structure

Directory/FilePurpose
_config.ymlSite-wide settings (title, URL, social links, navigation)
_pages/Static pages: about, research, publications, CV, etc.
_posts/Blog posts (rarely used)
_publications/Individual publication entries
_talks/Talk entries
_teaching/Teaching entries
_data/Navigation, author info, other structured data
assets/CSS overrides, JS
images/Images used across the site
files/PDFs and downloadable files (e.g., CV)
_layouts/, _includes/, _sass/Theme templates and styles

Key Pages

  • _pages/about.md — Homepage / bio
  • _pages/research.md — Research page (working papers, work in progress)
  • _pages/publications.md — Publications list
  • _pages/cv.md — CV page

Development

Run locally:

bundle exec jekyll serve

Or with dev config:

bundle exec jekyll serve --config _config.yml,_config.dev.yml

Site builds and deploys automatically via GitHub Pages on push to main.

CV / LaTeX

The Overleaf folder (pbrimble) is intended for a LaTeX-formatted CV. When ready, the compiled PDF should be exported to files/cv.pdf in this repo so it’s linked from _pages/cv.md.

Current Status

  • Website is live and active at https://pbrimble.github.io
  • Main pages: about, research, CV
  • Future work: LaTeX CV via Overleaf