Postdoctoral Associate
Duke University

CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md

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

What this is

This is Shinjini Pandey’s academic personal website, built with Jekyll using the Academic Pages theme (a fork of Minimal Mistakes). It is deployed via GitHub Pages at https://shinjinipandey.github.io.

Local development

Prerequisites: Ruby with ruby-dev, bundler, and nodejs.

bundle install                          # install dependencies (delete Gemfile.lock if errors)
bundle exec jekyll liveserve            # serve at localhost:4000 with live reload
bundle exec jekyll serve --config _config.yml,_config.dev.yml  # use dev config overrides

The _config.dev.yml overrides url to localhost:4000 and disables analytics/comments for local development.

Site structure and content editing

Where content lives:

  • _pages/about.md — homepage (permalink: /)
  • _pages/publication_final.md — research/publications page (permalink: /publication_final/)
  • _pages/cv.md — CV page linking to /files/CV/Shinjini_CV.pdf
  • _pages/Teaching.md — teaching page
  • _pages/Fieldwork.md — fieldwork photos page
  • _config.yml — site-wide settings: author bio, social links, analytics tracking ID

Key configuration in _config.yml:

  • Author profile (bio, avatar, social links) is under the author: key
  • The collections: section defines publication_final, portfolio, teaching, and talks
  • The defaults: section sets layouts and author_profile: true for each collection/page type

Publications page (_pages/publication_final.md) uses raw HTML with inline styles rather than a Jekyll collection — papers are listed directly in the Markdown file with <details>/<summary> toggles for abstracts.

Static files (PDFs, etc.) go in the files/ directory and are served at /files/filename.

Images go in the images/ directory.

Theme and layout

Layouts are in _layouts/, includes in _includes/. The theme uses SCSS compiled from assets/css/main.scss (imports from _sass/). Font Awesome and Academicons icon fonts are in assets/fonts/.

The site uses kramdown as the Markdown processor with GFM input mode. HTML is valid inside .md files.

Deployment

Pushing to the master branch on GitHub automatically triggers GitHub Pages deployment. The _site/ directory is the local build output — it is not committed.