Blogging with Jekyll
While I’ve been a bit cautious about starting this and it’s taken quite longer than intended, everything has to start somewhere so I might as well kick it off here. Bringing up a blog was something that’s been on my mind for a bit as a means of collecting thoughts and finding ways to best discuss the projects that I’m working on in my personal time although I wanted to make sure that I put in a little bit of work and was able to do it the right way.
I’ve always personally used WordPress for personal projects and in some cases, it’s the right tool for the job. As fantastic as WordPress is, I’m not sure that it’s necessary to have that much going on behind the scenes to run a simple blog with write-ups of projects. It seemed time to check out a couple different options for static site generation. Originally, I was looking at Pelican as an option although after experimenting with it, I was left wanting a bit more. It has some nice deployment tools rolled in but having to create a virtualenv and move that around to push out the site wasn’t entirely ideal.