This site is built using the static site generator Jekyll. This is my first project to use Jekyll, and I've found it to be very useful and intuitive.
At the most basic, all the need to know is 1) you can generate and serve the site via:
jekyll serve
and 2) the generated site will be put into _site, and any files beginning
with an underscore will not be included.
The official quick-start guide and this tutorial were all I needed to feel comfortable working with Jekyll.
I try to keep an up-to-date todo list for the project on the about page. If you want to help out on a larger piece of functionality, please email me first so we can discuss how to go about it: [ellisd23] at [gmail] [dot] [com]