New Platform

After a lengthy hiatus, the blog is back! 🎉

I've finally had the time to build a new blog site. WordPress is good, but I always wanted to create a fully customizable site that is fast and productive. There are plenty of alternatives out there, but I opted to go with GitHub Pages because you can host websites straight from a GitHub repository and it's completely free.

If you're wondering, this current version of the site is built using Jekyll - a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. It integrates really well with GitHub, making publishing new content really easy. Instead of using databases to store content, Jekyll renders Markdown templates and creates a complete, static website ready to be served by a web server. This means the website has faster loading times because there is little server-sided scripting to serve the content. You can read more about Jekyll here.

You may have also noticed that the commenting platform that I am using for this site is different. I am using the Disqus comments plug-in to set up a commenting system without needing a web server at all.

Like the old site, I plan to use this one to write about a wide range of things like tech topics, current projects and more. I'm still in the process of moving content and posts from the old site to this one so it may take some time until it's all complete. In the coming weeks, I'll post more frequently just like before. That's all for now.

Thanks for reading.