Switching up

I'm changing blogging software again. This time to Jekyll.

Most blog software keeps all of your content in a database that is managed through a web app component. Jekyll is different. Everything is kept in flat text files on your hard drive. When you want to post you create a new document, tell Jekyll to generate your site (based on a number of rules and configuration options), then upload it to your webhost.

This isn't for most people.

In the long run it may not be for me.

For now it's been fun learning a new way to put together all the pieces that turn a website into a blog.

There's still quite a bit of polishing and reworking to do.

Jekyll leaves everything up to you—Including usability. There are a number of spots that don't really work, from a user perspective (the tags page is “you should really see this” bad). There's enough here to get it off my machine and out into the real world. If you notice anything that's broken or behaving strangely, please let me know.

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