Hello, World!

Welcome to my first post on my first own website!

Recently, I faced the task of creating a simple website with the smallest possible maintenance overhead. After conducting some research, I stumbled upon GitHub Pages for hosting and was convinced by the Jekyll static site generator.

This video also saved me a ton of time searching for the proper Jekyll theme (Chirpy).

Extra points in my eyes for the GitHub Pages/Jekyll/Chirpy stack:

• It is easy to set up locally and does not require in-depth knowledge of Ruby.
• It boasts a minimalistic and adaptive design, supporting both desktop and mobile layouts.
• It automatically adjusts to the client’s dark/light mode system preference (with a manual option available).
• The local development instance supports the automatic reload of the website’s browser tab upon changing website source files (bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload).
• It correctly manages client-side caching for a production website, including a popup notification of a new version available.
• It enjoys good availability from one of the established industry names (github.com).
• No need to worry about security patches or TLS certificate management for HTTPS.
• Out of the box, there’s automatic deployment via GitHub Actions upon pushing to the main branch.
• It handles all the HTML/CSS markup (View), allowing the website admin to focus primarily on the Markdown (Model).
• For more advanced uses, it offers the Liquid templating engine, which looks familiar due to its striking similarity to Jinja2.

Stay tuned!