Hi everyone 👋, This is my new blog / website / place where I dump my thoughts and ideas.
I own this domain since forever, but I never really used it.
I started publishing on medium.com, but I was quickly annoyed by how bloated it became.
Looking for alternative, I discovered dev.to, which has been a great place to write for some time, but I was always disappointed by the editor and the User Experience.
So here is my new blog, and these were my constraints:
- It has to be simple. As simple as possible.
- I want to own my content, so it should be in a git repository
- I want to use markdown
- I want to self-host it
I therefore decided to use Jekyll, because of the incredible simplicity it provides. I know there’s way more modern tools out there, but I simply don’t need them: I don’t want to include React components, or do more complex things, so Jekyll is just enough.
Also, be able to work with ruby is a big plus for me, and I can use my existing knowledge to extend it if needed.
I also did not want to build from Sass, so I went with SimpleCSS, which is a very simple CSS framework that does not require any build step. If you like my template, you can find it on github.
Last but not least, Github Pages is able to host Jekyll sites without any additional configuration, so I can just push my changes and have them online in a few seconds.
So far, I could do the whole setup and migration in a few hours, and I am very happy with the result.
I can definitely recommend Jekyll to anyone who wants to have a simple blog in 2025.