Fascinated with Jekyll

I installed Jekyll for the first time today. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be to get my first post to display. I guess the next thing I should do is host it on GitHub Pages.

[5 min later]

Okay, my new test site is now hosted on GitHub Pages.

My Fascination with Jekyll

I built my own blogging engine almost a year ago because I wanted my own blog, I wanted to use markdown, and I was inspired by Second Crack. It took me probably 4 hours to do and it’s been running strong all year and I’m not even sure if I’ll replace it with Jekyll yet. I do have another project that I’m working on that I will use Jekyll for though.

Anyways, I think we are going to be seeing a lot more of static file blogging engines and hosting on GitHub pages makes things super simple. I learned a lot building my first blogging engine and I think I still have a billion things more I could learn from Jekyll which is why I want to tear Jekyll apart and figure out it works. Hopefully I can make a few contributions along the way.

Note: In order to get my posts to display I needed to set up my baseurl. See this commit. Ignore the github-pages gem I added, it isn’t needed.