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Some Blog Changes

This blog has been neglected for some time, to the extent where it’s been pretty much broken for the last few months. This weekend, I had some hours to spare, so I set about fixing it.

My main issue with my blog is that I hate Wordpress. It’s bloated and complicated for my usage, and I don’t like PHP very much. So I decided to change blogging platform.

I was browsing around for some inspiration, and came across Jekyll. I saw that my learned friend Alex Rozanski uses Jekyll, and he is hipster and clever (and his blog is far more worthy of a read than mine), so I decided to give it a go.

Headline: it’s way better for my use case than Wordpress.

It’s very lightweight, it’s quick to make changes, and I get to use Ruby instead of PHP. Having used it for a couple...

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