diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 3da6a50..9b674b6 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -13,16 +13,13 @@
 # you will see them accessed via {{ site.title }}, {{ site.email }}, and so on.
 # You can create any custom variable you would like, and they will be accessible
 # in the templates via {{ site.myvariable }}.
-title: MM
-email:
+title: Ethan Ruszanowski
+email: ethan@rusz.dev
 description: >- # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
-  Write an awesome description for your new site here. You can edit this
-  line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for
-  Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description.
-twitter_username: username
-github_username: username
-minimal_mistakes_skin: default
-search: true
+  Blog and portfolio for Ethan Ruszanowski.
+github_username: ethanrusz
+minimal_mistakes_skin: dark
+search: false
 
 # Build settings
 markdown: kramdown
@@ -31,7 +28,7 @@ remote_theme: mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
 permalink: /:categories/:title/
 paginate: 5 # amount of posts to show
 paginate_path: /page:num/
-timezone: # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
+timezone: America/New_York
 
 include:
   - _pages
@@ -58,34 +55,28 @@ plugins:
   - jekyll-include-cache
 
 author:
-  name   : "First Lastname"
-  avatar : "/assets/images/bio-photo.jpg"
-  bio    : "My awesome biography constrained to a sentence or two goes here."
+  name: "Ethan Ruszanowski"
+  avatar: "/assets/images/avatar.png"
+  bio: "Data engineer, polyglot developer, and RIT Computing and Information Technologies alum."
   links:
-    - label: "Website"
-      icon: "fas fa-fw fa-link"
-      url: "https://"
-    - label: "Twitter"
-      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
-      url: "https://twitter.com/"
+    - label: "Email"
+      icon: "fas fa-fw fa-envelope"
+      url: "mailto:ethan@rusz.dev"
     - label: "GitHub"
       icon: "fab fa-fw fa-github"
-      url: "https://github.com/"
-    - label: "Instagram"
-      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-instagram"
-      url: "https://instagram.com/"
+      url: "https://github.com/ethanrusz"
+    - label: "Mastodon"
+      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-mastodon"
+      url: "https://mastodon.acm.org/@rusz"
+    - label: "Matrix"
+      icon: "fas fa-fw fa-paper-plane"
+      url: "https://matrix.to/#/@ruszdev:matrix.org"
 
 footer:
   links:
-    - label: "Twitter"
-      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
-      url: "https://twitter.com/"
     - label: "GitHub"
       icon: "fab fa-fw fa-github"
-      url: "https://github.com/"
-    - label: "Instagram"
-      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-instagram"
-      url: "https://instagram.com/"
+      url: "https://github.com/ethanrusz"
 
 defaults:
   # _posts
diff --git a/_pages/about.md b/_pages/about.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ba0655..0000000
--- a/_pages/about.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
----
-permalink: /about/
-title: "About"
----
-
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-
-Cupidatat ea do et in excepteur in. Ad nostrud ut est esse eu duis ea sunt eiusmod. Aliquip tempor veniam sint elit fugiat. Velit incididunt laboris amet incididunt labore dolore irure velit excepteur commodo deserunt laborum. Consectetur eu fugiat veniam veniam Lorem labore magna eiusmod. Ea occaecat reprehenderit pariatur consectetur minim labore ut aliquip.
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diff --git a/_pages/category-archive.md b/_pages/category-archive.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4cb3860..0000000
--- a/_pages/category-archive.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
----
-title: "Posts by Category"
-layout: categories
-permalink: /categories/
-author_profile: true
----
diff --git a/_pages/tag-archive.md b/_pages/tag-archive.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f4e3f0..0000000
--- a/_pages/tag-archive.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
----
-title: "Posts by Tag"
-permalink: /tags/
-layout: tags
-author_profile: true
----
diff --git a/_pages/year-archive.md b/_pages/year-archive.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ce3413f..0000000
--- a/_pages/year-archive.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
----
-title: "Posts by Year"
-permalink: /posts/
-layout: posts
-author_profile: true
----
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