I think my main issue is that jekyll 4 is not support by github pages. That is fine with me, but how do I downgrade jekyll to work regardless?
I tried following the
Your Gemfile should look like :
source 'https://rubygems.org'
# will install all gh-pages allowed gems
# see : https://pages.github.com/versions/
gem 'github-pages'
# comment out all other gems
# gem 'jekyll'
# gem 'jekyll-feed'
# gem ...
Remove Gemfile.lock
You can now do a bundle and it will install all needed gems to test against actual github-pages version.