Fabrizio Boninsegna

nynsenfaber.github.io

nynsenfaber.github.io

Personal site of Fabrizio Boninsegna. Jekyll, built natively by GitHub Pages — push to master and it deploys. No CI, no node_modules. github-pages gem pins the Jekyll version (see Gemfile); don’t add plugins outside the jekyll_plugins group, GitHub Pages won’t run them.

Workflow

bundle install                    # once, or after Gemfile changes
bundle exec jekyll serve          # http://127.0.0.1:4000, live-reloads on save
bundle exec jekyll build          # build only, into _site/ (gitignored)

Before pushing any change, run bundle exec jekyll build and confirm it exits clean — there’s no CI to catch a broken build, master is live.

Where things live

I want to… Edit
Add or reorder a publication _data/publications.yml
Change the home hero / bio / links _config.yml → profile: and links:
Edit home page prose index.markdown
Write a blog post _posts/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md
Change colours, spacing, type _sass/_tokens.scss
Change page structure _layouts/, _includes/

No theme gem — everything is in _layouts, _includes, _sass.

Publications

_data/publications.yml is the only place publications are listed — the research page and the home page both read from it. Fields:

  • Order is the order in the file — newest first, nothing sorted at build time.
  • type: groups the entry: conference, journal, workshop, project, thesis.
  • featured: true gives a rust highlight and puts it in Selected work on the home page and Selected at the top of the research page. It still appears once, plainly, in its normal group below.
  • award: Spotlight adds the filled badge.
  • note: is the one-line “why this matters”, shown on featured cards only.
  • links: render as labelled buttons. icon: is one of paper, code, video, slides (publications), or document (used for CV-style links).

Blog posts

Front matter:

---
title: "Post title"
date: 2026-07-25
tags: [differential-privacy, rust]
summary: "One or two sentences. Shown on the blog index and under the title."
---

layout: post is applied automatically via _config.yml defaults — don’t set it by hand.

Maths

Write LaTeX with $$...$$. kramdown decides inline vs display from context (own line = display) and emits \(...\) / \[...\], which KaTeX renders client-side. assets/js/main.js fetches KaTeX from a CDN only on pages that actually contain maths, so the rest of the site loads nothing extra — never add a MathJax script tag to a post, it’s handled globally there.

Theme

Light and dark are both first-class. The site follows the visitor’s OS setting until they hit the header toggle, after which the choice is saved to localStorage and wins. Colours are CSS custom properties defined once in _sass/_tokens.scss — change them there and both themes follow.

Accessibility and layout

  • Every outbound link is a labelled button — icons support the label, never replace it.
  • Wide tables get a focusable scroll container from main.js, so they scroll inside themselves instead of widening the page.
  • All animation is disabled under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce.
  • Verified for horizontal overflow down to a 320 px viewport.