So I started a blog.

It happened for the last time. I bumped into a problem I know I have solved earlier already. Years ago. And what was the solution? Yeah, that’s the problem. I didn’t write it down anywhere. Mostly because I didn’t have any place to write it down to. Now I have.

Starting a blog is not as easy as I thought. There are dedicated blogging platforms out there, but one required me to log in with Facebook or Google accounts, the other offered only .sports.blog as the non-cost top level domain. Third match on the search “where to start a blog” was Github. How cool is that?

I’m not really a web developer. Last time I wrote HTML, CSS was the coolest new technology. I was a bit afraid I’d be in for a rough ride, imagining Github provides a ~/public_html type of solution. Which, in the end, it does. But Github also has Jekyll integrated. A framework in ruby to keep the kludges to a minimum (zero, so far for this site). It takes care of rendering .md to .html, it insert headers and footers, and I bet a whole lot more that I haven’t discovered yet. Amazing tool, I recommend it after only a few nights of use.