Blogging with GitHub Pages & Jekyll

Combination of GitHub Pages (free) and Jekyll (free) for static site generation is for me the long sought-after answer to a question “How to best publish my thoughts online, in a blog form?”. Where “best” represents the blurry mix of the desires to avoid lock-in to walled gardens of the likes of Google, Facebook or LinkedIn, the need to control and own my content (but at the same time not to spend more effort in keeping the system up and running than using it) – and finally, not overcooking it.

Read More