Few days ago I came across an article describing how to create a blog using GitHub pages and Jekyll. The idea of creating a blog post by committing it into your Git repo looked kind of fun to me, so I decided to give it a try. This post is the place where I will keep the journal of the experiment.

10/28/2014:

My first blog post and the first issues. Default markdown parser does not understand GitHub style fenced blocks for code snippets. Fixed the issue using the Liquid tag for highligting {% highlight %}. This is not an ideal fix because that breaks GitHub’s own Markdown preview. Will try to find a better solution.

10/29/2014:

Jekyll automatically generates posts excerts. Want to display full posts on the main page. Found a way to controll excerts generation here.

10/30/2014:

Switched to Redcarpet for Markdown processing. This way I can get GitHub style fenced blocks with Pygments highlighting for code snippets.

01/02/2015:

Reinitialized the repo to remove Jekyll Now commits history.

04/16/2016:

Switched back to kramdown as a part of GitHub’s Jekyll 3.0 upgrade. New syntax highlights CSS from mojombo.