This blog is now powered by Jekyll
There are many different tools, platforms and mindsets for blogging. I was inspired by Tom Werner’s blog post titled Blogging Like a Hacker to use his Ruby powered creation Jekyll for this blog over Wordpress which I was using earlier. Jekyll lets me use the lightweight Textile markup to write blog posts in a text editor such as vim. Then I simply run jekyll in a local directory which crunches all the templates and markup to generate plain old vanilla HTML. As I am also using git for version controlling the blog, I can use git’s post hook feature to deploy the blog remotely to my web host. Another alternative approach to deployment is by using rsync.
When I tweeted about the reincarnation of this blog I received a question from @socialectnepal regarding my reasoning behind this switch and my reply below summarises my decision :
