I figured out how to include excerpts of blog posts on the front page/post list. Hopefully, it doesn’t look quite as spartan and sad now.

As it turns out, nothing more is required than adding a line in the frontmatter of the post:

excerpt_separator: "<!--more-->"

You can use whatever separator you want, of course. Putting this in every post might just be the kind of thing I forget all the time, so thankfully it’s possible to stick it in _config.yml and have it work for all posts.

In other news

The “About” page is now “personal” instead of prewritten stuff about jekyll themes.