Oh look! It’s another complete refresh of your website Kraig!
I know, I’m not really bothered about migrating 6 or so posts and reformatting them again. Progressively my blogging systems have become more and more minimalistic, starting out with a full-on Wordpress installation and now having everything being held in a bare-bones Jekyll setup
It’s a simple premise really. Rather than having a server churn out posts based on PHP code at run time, Jekyll precompiles sites into static HTML pages. That site is then pushed not to a server, but a git repository linked to a domain name, thus you have your own personal website - complete with backup service - from a mere Github Repo.
It’s not for everyone. You need to be okay with command lines and the closest thing you’ll get to a WYSIWYG is opening up a markdown file in Sublime Text, but by distilling the writing process into the absolute bare essentials, I can minimize distractions one might have if they have a whole suite of plugins and buttons to play with.
I’ve tried things like Octopress and DocPad in the past. I think DocPad is far superior to Octopress, as it doesn’t suffocate you with pre-existing theme and layout decisions, but for my needs it’s a bit of overkill to make my templates compatible. Focussing on content, for me, is a much more enjoyable use.
So yeah, pretty bare so far. I want this new approach to be more about posting useful stuff: Code snippets, handy projects, tutorials, workflows, etc. rather than comment and opinion stuff. An opinion is only valid when there is hard proof one knows what their talking about after all…
How very hipster of you, Mr Walker…
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