A blog eh?

So ive decided it’s time to start a blog to record all the random musings, tutorials, code snippets and the rest - so here it is… Congratulations you’ve found it!

Build your own?

If you want to build something similar, go clone/fork : lanyon - it’s Amazing and follow the GitHub pages instructions, Its really that simple! I also setup Jekyll locally to save a couple of pushes when testing. Setup:

apt-get install ruby-dev zlib1g-dev python-ptyprocess python-pexpect python-gconf python-xdg

Then create a file called “Gemfile” containing:

source ‘https://rubygems.org’ gem ‘github-pages’, group: :jekyll_plugins

to get bundle to build jekyll. After that run:

bundle exec jekyll serve

To start the server (page generation and server startup takes ~1 second on my tired old laptop) and browse localhost:4000 and your all done! Really great experience.
Leave the server running while changes are made and you get automatic instantaneous generation (ok not really but: 0.198782435 seconds.) and publishing!
Kudos to all that were involved in these projects!