Rewriting this site with Jekyll

Why bother?

I wanted to clean up my previous site, and I wanted to try out Jekyll.

I built the previous iteration of my site with minimalism in mind. This led to an unfortunate experiment in using emoji as icons. For posterity: that experiment failed. Different browsers support different emoji, display the same emoji differently, and apply CSS font color to emoji differently.

I selected Jekyll for the rewrite since Github pages uses that static-site generator under the hood. Minimizing the number of tools involved in the site appealed to me (still does), but so did Jekyll’s popularity and relative longevity. Jekyll 1.0 came out in 2013, years before its present-day competitors Hexo or Gatsby. If it has worked for that long, it must be doing something right.