Setting up this blog, Part 1

Full Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

I think it’s proper that my first post on the new blogging system is about setting up the new blogging system. So meta, much wow.

Here were my goals:

• Avoid WYSIWYG.
• Learn something new and relevant.
• Content must be reasonably exportable.
• Writing should be as exciting as the content.

With these goals in mind, I’ve switched away from Blogger and onto GitHub Pages. But not just GitHub Pages, a full technology stack of goodness to learn and explore with it:

• Sublime for writing.
• Markdown for markup.
• Jekyll for static compilation.
• Git for source control.
• GitHub Pages for hosting.
• Hover for domain registration.

Additionally, I’ve dedicated myself to doing it the hard way via command line- so I’ve been forced to learn a great deal more about OSX, Terminal, and Unix Commands.

In the interest of finishing a post, I’m going to break this into multiple parts.

Next Part: Setting up my environment.