Hello, and welcome to my blog! I’m not completely sure what I will use the blog for, but I figure any time I solve some problem that other people may also run in to, I should probably post about it.
About the blog
After exploring a few different options for how to set up the blog, including WordPress and Tumblr, I settled on jekyll. According to them, “Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator perfect for personal, project, or organization sites”, which sounds exactly like what I need.
Some highlights of Jekyll that made me go with it are:
- Pages are statically generated, so they can be placed anywhere on an existing site, without using any external services, frameworks, subdomains, etc.
- Pages are created in Markdown! And with
jekyll serve, changes in the markdown files are monitored and automatically refreshed. - Awesome support for syntax highlighting.
So I can type things like this[1]:
```scala
object Main extends App {
def greeting(name: String) = s"Hello $name!"
println(greeting("Jekyll"))
}
```And it comes out like this:
object Main extends App {
def greeting(name: String) = s"Hello $name!"
println(greeting("Jekyll"))
}
Even Scala REPL highlighting looks ok (although it could use some work):
scala> def greeting(name: String) = s"Hello $name!"
greeting: (name: String)String
scala> println(greeting("Jekyll"))
Hello Jekyll!
You can see the source for this post and the entire Jekyll project on GitHub here