As a programmer, I was in the market for something to quickly bootstrap a personal site. I am primarily a Ruby on Rails developer so when I found out about Jekyll it interested me. It feels like a stripped down, bootstrapped version of rails that allows you to quickly spin up and deploy a simple blog-like site.

It was just a matter of a couple simple commands to get this site running. Since I use ASDF Version Manager to manage all my machine’s tool versions, here are the relatively few commands it took to get this site up.

asdf plugin add ruby

asdf install ruby latest

asdf set -u ruby latest

gem install bundler jekyll

jekyll new <my_site_name>

cd <my_site_name>

bundle exec jekyll serve

Another reason that interested me in Jekyll was how it uses markdown to render these posts. I am an Obsidian proselytizer, and will jump at any opportunity to copy-paste some of my musings in that app and infect the internet with them.

On top of that, I can easily host this site on Github Pages and point my domain at it.

The default theme is nice and simple to boot :)