Bad title for a post but thats how my relationship with the [jekyll][1] static site generator stands. I love it: It just lets me blog - no shitty admin console, no extra jazz, just keyboard noise –> blog post with some very simple magic in between. it serves static html - no wordpress security headaches, no server load problems, instant load times given that i load off an SSD on my [host][2]1. Read more

####Prelude I recently moved my blog over to Jekyll! Thanks to a black friday deal over at Digital Ocean, I got my hands on a vps that I dont have to pay for the next 10 months… So, the first thing I did was to setup my almost dead in the corner blog using Jekyll, something that I’ve been meaning to do for over a year now.. And unlike a lot of people using Jekyll on *nix and OSX based systems, I was forced to setup Ruby 1. Read more