CLAUDE.md

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

Project Overview

Personal academic portfolio for Peeter Laas (PhD, molecular ecology / environmental microbiology), hosted on GitHub Pages at https://peeterlaas.github.io.

Deployment

No local build step is needed. GitHub Pages automatically runs Jekyll on push to main. To deploy changes:

git add <files>
git commit -m "message"
git push

Architecture

The site recently migrated from a multi-page Jekyll structure to a single-file SPA. All visible content and client-side navigation logic now lives in index.html. The six sections (Home, Current Work, Past Work, Education, Events & Honours, Gallery) are rendered and switched via vanilla JavaScript — no framework involved.

• index.html — entire site content and JS navigation logic
• assets/css/style.scss — dark-mode overrides for the Minima Jekyll theme (uses CSS variables, teal accent #5eb8a0)
• assets/images/ — fieldwork and lab photo galleries
• assets/CV_2026-02-15.pdf — current CV
• _layouts/default.html — minimal Jekyll layout wrapper inheriting from Minima base
• _config.yml — Jekyll config: theme, plugins (seo-tag, feed, sitemap, gist), kramdown/Rouge

Key Notes

• _config.yml still lists header_pages referencing deleted .md files (education.md, current-work.md, etc.) — these were removed during the SPA migration and the config entry is now a no-op.
• Google Fonts used: DM Serif Display, DM Mono, Jost.
• No JavaScript dependencies or package manager — pure vanilla JS/CSS.
• .claude/settings.local.json pre-authorizes common git operations.