After an exceptionally long break from blogging, I’ve decided to once again return. Thanks mostly to reading about an awesome blog generator known as Jekyll, a project created by GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Warner that seems to be the flavor of the week for developers/hackers wanting to throw up a personal site. It seems Jekyll is getting all these programmers’ panties in a wad because it’s dead simple, command-line friendly, and synergises exceptionally well with git (or any version control system, as updating is done by creating plain-text markdown files).
So, as any true Linux geek, I’ll be updating from the command line by creating my posts in vim and checking them into a git repo. I’ll probably end up writing a few scripts to automate some of the process of creating new posts and committing in git as well– because hey, I wouldn’t be a real Linux user if I didn’t write a script for every damn little thing.
You can check out this site’s project page for implementation details. As for content, I plan on blogging about the usual personal ramblings and reflections, but this time hope to include more technical discussions, tutorials, and how-to write-ups with technologies and programming languages that interest me. There will also be a projects section that I will post whatever follies I’m working on (or have worked on in the past).
There is still a decent number of features I still need to implement, such as a blog archive page (no point until I get a few written though), a commenting system, analytics, and maybe some more interesting design choices… but I think half the fun will be making this damn site.