The last functional requirement that I wanted for the rebuilt website was something missing in the previous version that had haunted me for a while: internationalization.

My native language is Spanish, but being born to a Galician family, living in Galicia most of my life, and considering the decline in speakers that Galician has been suffering from decades, I decided to become a Galician speaker. I use it in my daily life, and of course also in my lectures. However, we all know English is academia’s lingua franca, and as a result of that my previous professional website was only in English. I wanted to fix that.

Of course Jekyll has plugins to ease the task of making a multilingual website, but given that this website is deployed on GitHub Pages, and the restrictions that because of that apply, I searched and searched for a plugin-free solution. Of the many websites and blog posts that I found, this one and this one were the ones that I ended up getting inspired by.