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Using Jekyll for Blogging

In my neverending quest to create the “perfect blog” (whatever that means), I stumbled across Jekyll. Jekyll’s a simple static site generator. It’s in Ruby, which as a rule, I’m trying to avoid these days, but it provides a very clean and efficient means of blogging (and therefore reduces the impetus to actually updating this stupid thing).

For anyone who hasn’t used it before, I’d recommend coupling it with a VCS like git, tied to a post-update hook to re-generate your website when you git push origin master. Like many others, I’ve chosen to use github as a host for all my entries (my initial thought was to dump them on a private gitosis setup, but seeing as they’re public anyway that seemed rather dumb); feel free to grab and reuse my templates (which are derived from the Wordpress minimalist theme) or various nut/bolt type files (atom.xml/sitemap.xml), which I grabbed (and modified) from others in turn ;).