Aditya Potnis

Robotics
MS CS @ UIUC
MechE at COEP

CLAUDE.md

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

What this is

Personal academic website for Aditya Potnis, deployed via GitHub Pages at https://adipotnis.github.io. Jekyll site using the mmistakes/minimal-mistakes remote theme (v4.26.2).

Local development

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

Site serves at http://localhost:4000. GitHub Pages builds on push, so changes to main go live automatically.

Architecture

  • index.md — the entire single-page site. All content (About, Publications, Projects, Competitive Robotics) lives here as markdown plus inline HTML. Adding or reordering sections means editing this one file.
  • _config.yml — site-level settings, author profile, and sidebar/footer links. The remote_theme line pulls minimal-mistakes from GitHub; do not commit a local theme copy.
  • _data/navigation.yml — top-nav anchor links. Anchors must match the auto-generated section IDs from index.md headings (lowercased, spaces → hyphens).
  • _includes/head/custom.html — site-wide CSS overrides for the minimal-mistakes theme. Defines the .side-by-side flex layout used throughout index.md for text-next-to-media project blocks, plus sidebar/page-width overrides. Style changes for the site go here, not in index.md.
  • images/ and docs/ — static assets referenced from index.md via relative paths (images/foo.mp4, docs/bar.pdf).

Conventions for index.md

Each project/publication entry follows a repeating pattern:

### Title
Code/Paper/Report: [Link](url)

<div class="side-by-side">
<div class="media">
<video controls><source src="images/foo.mp4" type="video/mp4"></video>
</div>
<div class="text" markdown="1">
Description paragraph.
</div>
</div>

The markdown="1" attribute on the inner .text div is required for Jekyll to render markdown inside the HTML block. Omitting it leaves the description as literal text.