Motivation

This is about putting my daily experiences and code snippets in a centralized space and at the same time trying out a github hosted blog with Jekyll.

How-To

Hosting a blog this way is easy:

  • Create a github repo with your account name in the form of username.github.io
  • Install Jekyll
gem install jekyll
 jekyll new SITENAME
 cd SITENAME
 jekyll server
  • Edit the _config.yml to suit your needs
  • Upload your site to github
git init
 git add .
 git commit -am "init"
 git remote add origin https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git
-git push -u origin master
  • Github automagically builds jekyll blogs when you push to your repos master branch.
  • You’re done. So make some more posts

Check out the Jekyll docs for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll.