Blacksburg received over a foot of snow this weekend… again, so I’ve been digging around the internet for interesting things to read. I came across github pages and decided to give it a try. I’ve been a believer in the github model since it was created, so migrating my blog seemed like it would be cool. I had no idea that a framework was already in place to make it ridiculously easy to create static pages. Powered by Jekyll, a user can almost write human readable content and have that transformed into a website.

The huge win for me is that I can create blog posts from my text editor and then issue a git push. Jekyll was written by Tom Preston-Werner, and he is kind enough publish the source for his blog which I used that as a starting point, thanks Tom!

I do enjoy writing, but the barrier to entry has always been prohibitively high. Tom published a blog article summing up my thoughts exactly.