diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index aafbdd8..5bd629c 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
-# frozen_string_literal: true
+source "https://rubygems.org"
 
-source 'https://rubygems.org' do
-    gem 'rails'
-    gem 'nokogiri'
-  end
-  
-  source 'https://mytrustedsource.com' do
-    gem 'my_private_gem'
-  end
-  
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+# note: I could potentially remove the github-pages gem since I am
+# now deploying via Netlify instead of GH-Pages. However, it does
+# also include a lot of helpful dependencies that I might otherwise
+# need to be sure that I include here. For more details see:
+# https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-serve-auto-regeneration-not-recognizing-changes-after-gemfile-update/5335/7
+gem 'github-pages'
+gem 'jekyll-redirect-from', '~> 0.6'
+gem "listen", "~> 3.2.1"
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diff --git a/minima.gemspec b/minima.gemspec
deleted file mode 100644
index 6049ad4..0000000
--- a/minima.gemspec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# frozen_string_literal: true
-
-Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
-  
-    spec.summary  = "A beautiful, minimal theme for Jekyll."
-    spec.homepage = "https://github.com/jekyll/minima"
-    spec.license  = "MIT"
-  
-    spec.metadata["plugin_type"] = "theme"
-  
-    spec.files = `git ls-files -z`.split("\x0").select do |f|
-      f.match(%r!^(assets|_(includes|layouts|sass)/|(LICENSE|README)((\.(txt|md|markdown)|$)))!i)
-    end
-  
-    spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll", ">= 3.5", "< 5.0"
-    spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll-feed", "~> 0.9"
-    spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll-seo-tag", "~> 2.1"
-  
-    # Update the Bundler development dependency to a secure version
-    spec.add_development_dependency "bundler", ">= 2.0.0"
-  end
-  
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