Lets try Jekyll for a while!

Seems like it’s time to move to a new blog platform again. I really enjoyed Ghost but there was something seriously wrong with my setup.

My old setup was Ghost hosted on the Heroku free tier with binaries stored in AWS. It was fine when I set it up but then Heroku limited their free tiers and the AWS plugin started having problems uploaded images.

So enter Jekyll and GitHub Pages!

This blog is now completely hosted in a GitHub repository based on a simple theme called Contrast forked from another GitHub repository. No need for advanced setups or hosting providers!

It took me about 30 minutes to get going. I installed ruby, installed jekyll via gem, forked the theme repo and cloned it, then I just ran jekyll serve --watch from my terminal and I was up and running So far it’s been a blast and since my old posts were already written in markdown I just copied them over and updated the syntax highlighting markup and I was back!

Hopefully this ease of everything might encourage me to write some more, I’ve got some fun stuff lined up that might be interesting.