This post will be constantly updated, but the date will not. So it won’t always be on top of new content. Here I’ll document my own blogging platform and knowledge decisions. A single point of blogging journey.

2022-09-23

The website was made using Jekyll one of open source static sites generator, and using my @piharpi’s simple theme, he called it klisé. The tool was convenient and I’d never worked with Ruby before, which was encouraging. Actually, choosing Jekyll was the best choice because it was supported for free in GitHub Pages. This would change soon, though.

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We’ll start by creating a local development environment. I chose to install ruby and learned about the bundle command, somehow I expected a more straightforward process to use Gems and Ruby environment, but these libs usage is cryptic enough. I managed to finally spin up my devenv and open my site in localhost:4000.

I went through the Jekyll Step by Step tutorial to learn the sections of Jekyll, it was clear enough to start. Once I understood what layouts are, where the posts are created and how is this maintainable, I could start configuring some parts of the website. First, I needed to override any information that wasn’t about me. The /thanks webpage, the /about and others; also example posts. Very useful all of them by the way.

I haven’t created a blog site before. But I’m following klisé’s advice to not use GitHub pages due to an image plugin, so https://vercel.app is the way to go. It seemed convenient enough, and I can easily create a subdomain to cover my blog from it. After deploying to Vercel, my site was finally live!