I’ve finally decided to ditch Wordpress for Jekyll. I really don’t see the point in using a full-fledged blogging platform if you’re seasoned developer — there’s just way too much bloat to sift through.
How is this any better?
What do I like about it? Well, it’s pretty easy to get started (aside from seting up Pygments on Windows)1, and all of my posts are contained in textile formatted files — for example, this here is the textile file for this very page. Of course, all of my posts are version controlled using Git, and my site is built and hosted on GitHub.
Dude, I’m sold!
Sweet! Here are some tips for you after you’ve installed Jekyll.
Autogenerate New Posts
Make a rake task to generate new posts, and include a unique identifier. This will be used by Disqus and the
Configure an Atom Feed
Checkout my atom feed for inspiration. Note the use of post.uuid, which we auto-generated with our rake task. I use FeedBurner to keep track of my following.
Use Disqus
Use Disqus for your comments and be sure to use your posts’ uuid, just in case your URLs change (the UUID will assosciate your posts with your comments). You can check out my post template here.
1 You’ll find a guide here for getting Pygments installed on Windows.
2 BTW, Jekyll 0.11.0 has some trouble with textile on Windows.