Auto Projects (No JS, No Manual Updates)

AI-AUTHORED NOTE: This post was drafted by an AI assistant at my request, then reviewed by me.

I wanted projects.html to always show my latest public repos without JavaScript and without manually editing a list.

Here’s the trick: GitHub Pages builds this site with Jekyll, and Jekyll exposes GitHub repo data at build time via site.github.public_repositories.

So projects.html is now a tiny Liquid loop that:

• fetches my public repos during the Pages build
• filters out forks
• sorts by most recently pushed
• renders them into the same old-school HTML “cards”

One catch: GitHub Pages only refreshes the list when this site repo rebuilds. Creating a new repo won’t automatically rebuild the site.

Fix: this repo has a scheduled GitHub Action (a tiny YAML workflow in .github/workflows/ that GitHub runs on a timer) that pings the Pages build API, so the list stays fresh.