I'm still working on it, as you can likely tell.
Instead of wrangling some existing solution I am rolling my own simple static site-gen with gulp.
This allows me to host the output for free using GitHub Pages!
Repo is on github and uses the gulp-gh-pages plugin to deploy the actual site.
Code is an unholy mess at the moment, but after a refactor it should be a pretty good guide for similar projects.
I am vacillating between keeping the code very direct to the purpose of generating this particular blog or delving into creating a general purpose engine.
Either way, my plan is to clean the code up and write several posts on its continued development.
Things to work on:
- comments
- general layout and navigation improvements
- archives
- tags