Reviving my Blog
I have trying to write a blog since a long time now. It is just that I could never get started. And, when I started a couple of times, I could never get used to softwares like blogger/wordpress. And, then I discovered Jekyll.
Jekyll is the blogging platform for hackers. I tried Octopress as well, but could not get it to work, as it requires a recent version of Ruby (and yes, rbenv did not work for me).
With Jekyll:
- I can write code in Emacs (or vi).
- since these are plain text files, I can store my blog in a git/mercurial/svn repository.
- I can write blog in Markdown.
- serve my blog for free with Github Pages
- serve static files instead of messing with a database.
- handcraft my HTML pages.
- fork an existing blog on github. It cannot get easier than this.