GitHub Pages And Jekyll

I just deployed this blog using GitHub Pages and Jekyll

It works! It was actually pretty smooth. Even using a custom domain was relatively straightforward, I have it deployed at blog.thiago.pub.

It needs a bit more polishing, but it’s pretty impressive how easy these things are these days.

Jekyll is a static site generator. I didn’t know about it, but GitHub Pages documentation recommends it to create blogs on top of the platform. It’s implemented in Ruby, and it was interesting to look into that again and learn about RubyGems (I think of it as something akin to NPM, but for Ruby).