Freshly Installed Jekyll

I’ve just finished getting an initial blog setup using Heroku to host it, and Jekyll to create a static site. I’m impressed so far. Obviously, the site needs a bit of styling done to it, but the nice thing is that I can easily rerun Jekyll to recreate it with the added styling.

So, welcome to my blog!

I’m considering writing up a bit about getting it all working, although I have noticed that there are a few blog posts around that probably have plenty of information. I used a couple to get this far - specifically the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, a blog post blogging for hackers by Alexandru Nedelcu, a blog on migrating from wordpress to jekyll, and the Jekyll usage instructions.

I have only got the bare essentials working right now, and still intend to make use of Google App Engine to act as a CDN as mentioned in Alexandru’s post. It’s actually pretty impressive that his (free) setup continued to work when he got a pretty large number (10,000) of visits in one day.

Anyway, I’m happy with what I’ve got so far, in that the system allows me to blog (we’ll see if I do…), and mess around with the site, without worrying about accidentally losing my posts - they’re hosted on GitHub, and on Heroku which is itself a git host.

Thanks for reading!

2 Comments

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  dave

  commented 2021-05-13T11:24:10.031Z

  Just some plain comment
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  dave

  commented 2021-05-10T11:56:06.229Z

  do links work thing

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