refactorized blog

New blog, new blog engine

gulp + github pages = love

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