# Tildes Issue Log > Monthly blog highlighting [Tildes.net](https://tildes.net) development --- ## 2019 * [September](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/september-2019.html) * [August](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/august-2019.html) * [July](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/july-2019.html) * [June](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/june-2019.html) * [May](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/may-2019.html) * [April](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/april-2019.html) * [March](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/march-2019.html) * [February](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/february-2019.html) * [January](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/january-2019.html) ## 2018 * [December](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/december-2018.html) * [November](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/november-2018.html) * [October](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/october-2018.html) * [September](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/september-2018.html) * [August](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/august-2018.html) * [July](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/july-2018.html) * [June](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/june-2018.html) * [May](https://til.bauke.xyz/posts/may-2018.html) ## Contributing If you'd like to write a highlight section about a feature, please do! I'm not a writer by any means and would love to have other people write these instead. If you're not familiar with the Git workflow you can always [private message me](https://tildes.net/user/Bauke/new_message) with what you've written and I'll add your section for you, crediting your Tildes profile. If you'd like to learn Git, you can find tons of guides online. [Here's](https://try.github.io/) an excellent one. ## Building If you'd like to build the issue table, statistics and/or website yourself you can follow these steps. You'll need [Node JS](https://nodejs.org/) and [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/). You *can* use NPM however I don't. You probably know what you're doing though at that point. * Clone the repository * SSH: `git clone git@gitlab.com:Bauke/tildes-issue-log.git` * HTTPS: `git clone https://gitlab.com/Bauke/tildes-issue-log.git` * Change into the directory: `cd tildes-issue-log` * Install the dependencies: `yarn` * Create a `config.json` file from the sample config, including a [personal access token](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/personal_access_tokens.html) from GitLab. **config.json is gitignored however make sure you don't publish your token somewhere on accident.** * Run `yarn dl` to download the issues from the current month we're in and build the statistics and issue table, if you already have the issue files you can run `yarn nodl` to skip the downloading * To easily develop the website itself you can run `yarn watch` to watch the `src/` folder for changes and automatically lint the sass and build the files. Running `yarn watch` will open your default browser at `localhost:3000`. * To build the site only once you can do `yarn build`, the files will be built under `public/`, a requirement for GitLab Pages. A new gitignored directory will be created called `data/` including all the files to generate the Statistics and the Issue Table files, which will appear in the "out" folder labelled as `MonthYear_table/statistics.html`. To generate them for a specific year and/or month you'll have to go into the Gulp file and change the `wantedYear` and/or the `wantedMonth`. If you're working on the generation process you can run `yarn nodl` to skip the downloading phase, this will only generate `table.html` and `statistics.html`. This way you don't have to wait several seconds for the GitLab API to respond. If you want to lint your sass (using [Stylelint](https://stylelint.io/)) manually you can run `yarn lint`, in the future when we have JavaScript (if ever) this will also include JS linting however as there's 0 JS ending up on the site at the moment there's no need for it.