New Year, New Blog
My search for a blogging system that best balances price with frequency of use.
Welcome to my new blog!
Prior to this, it was hosted on WordPress.com, and many of my older posts are still available here.
I gave WordPress.com a shot for the past year, as it was cheaper than my prior self-hosting setup. However, even when paying just $4 USD / month, I still wasn't using it much. So this time around, I'm going the 100% free route.
Here are the specfic resources I Frankensteined together to accomplish this:
- Jekyll leverages Ruby to publish Markdown to static webpages
- New posts are composed using Markdown
- My change control tool is Git, with GitHub Desktop as my idiot-proof client
- Free hosting is done using GitHub Pages
- HTML5 UP helps me with the pretty home page template
If I ever feel like posting, it's as simple as opening a text file and pushing my changes, which can be done from most anywhere — work computer, home computer, even my phone.
Here’s to an efficient and cheap 2024!
