I’d like to welcome everyone to my new website!
Why not Wordpress anymore? For one, I was on a free plan with no custom domain. I also found the Wordpress site in general to be pretty bloated (especially that new editor, yikes). I also didn’t need nearly any of the functionality that it offered.
I spent about a day yesterday experimenting with the Jekyll static site generator, and I found it enough to my liking to move my blog to it. Now, my workflow is just using vim to write normal Markdown files, which Jekyll compiles into a static website (plain HTML/CSS, minimal JS). I then simply scp that folder onto my webserver to deploy it. Clean and simple.