First post! (Kinda)

¡Holá!

Hello unlikely visitor! Welcome to the long-overdue reboot of my blog.

The first version of this was an experiment in 2012, with this new-fangled tool called Jekyll.

After a couple of cringe-worthy posts (not archived by the wayback machine, thankfully) I didn’t touch this again for a decade.

So here we are. Playing around with Jekyll and Github Pages.

I expect most of the content to be technical in nature, mostly notes on stuff I’ve figured out, and written down so I don’t forget. Hopefully google will index it so that future me can find it when needed.

Notes about this site so far

• This is using github-pages, with jekyll and the minimal-mistakes theme, deployed using github actions. All this is new to me, so I may be doing it wrong, or I may tear this out and re-do it in a fit of rage.
• I had to go through a number of different jekyll deployment actions in the github marketplace. I haven’t used the marketplace before, so I was expecting more polish or at least a level of stability and working-ness that doesn’t seem to be there. It gave me PTSD flashbacks to a dark time involving Jenkins plugins. I cycled through a good number of actions, having to fork and modify them to get them working. Also a bit scary from a security perspective.
• The theme looks nice and flexible, but has a pretty big surface area. As a developer who needs to put a lot of effort into design, I want something to look nice out-of-the-box, but also easy to modify. A tough balance.
• Not sure why github doesn’t move to jekyll 4 or at least make the docs a bit more comprehensive for customerizers like me and up-to-date. Maybe it’s just me, but anyone without a ton of experience could easily get frustrated. Maybe that’s what they want? MS owns it now.
• I like bullet points.