Why move to Jekyll?
I used to have a Wordpress blog. I wasn’t happy with it. It was PHP, I made some sites in PHP and I did not like them. When I saw Wordpress’ code I was thinking is it worth to learn it? I was unable to prepare a theme for myself, the amount of plugins was overwhelming and the amount of emails I got about plugin updates were just frustrating. Not only that, I was buying this PHP hosting (because almost every hosting in Poland is all about PHP) with a domain, and the truth is - I rarely updated my blog. I still have trouble with self discipline to write a blog post. And I paid for it annualy.
And then a friend of mine showed me GitHub Pages and his blog made in Jekyll. I looked at it, and I fell in love. I knew that this is the next step for me. Away from PHP I can learn new skills and technologies and deploy them for free.
So the obvious question is: what next?
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I will migrate some of my old blogs from Wordpress to Jekyll. Not much, as I will grant oblivion to old PHP posts.
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I will learn Jekyll and develop my own theme for the blog.
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I will document my developer journey in several fields, with the following as probable goals in the near future:
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Electron applications
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Game Maker games
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Godot engine games perhaps?
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.NET Core in any form possible
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I’m also preparing some articles, not sure if as blog posts or not, things that will land on the menu, because there’are just so good :-)
Well then… Warp speed, I guess?