It has aged poorly, as now the current version of the blog is using Jekyll. But the previous one was not - and kinda, proudly so. Here’s how it looked:

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What is this

  • A place to share some of my thoughts, opinions, ideas

Why did I need to do this

  • Because I could :)
  • Because I feel too strongly about some of the ideas / opinions to keep to myself
  • Because I hope this way I can better organize all the stuff I am working on

How was this built

This is a static site hosted for free on GitHub. The html is generated using a shell script I cobbled together

Essentially a lightly modified version of Expose - a wonderful bash script by Jack Qiao Theme is based off Hyde

Why didn’t you just use Jekyll / Hugo / something similar

  • Because I love the elegance and simplicity of one bash script handling everything I need to publish.
    • No dependency on Ruby / Python / Go or anything other than couple of css files and an html template
    • Despite having a little bit of exposure of working with Jekyll, the liquid filters still seemed a little magical to me. I understand the workings of bash better :)
  • Also, I could customize the bash-script to more closely suit my work-flow

Current issues

  • Broken links, here and there
  • Haywire formatting
  • Unedited posts; hopefully no spelling errors though
  • And many, many more