Rego’s Everyday Life

A blog about my work at Igalia.

New Year, New Blog!

As you might noticed, I’m starting the new year changing my blog design and software.

The idea has often come to my mind since I discovered the static site generators like Jekyll. And finally this year I decided to get rid of WordPress and, definitely, move my blog to Jekyll. Like the previous blog theme was really old fashioned and completely unresponsive, I took advantage of the software migration to improve the design of my blog too.

Basically, I found this nice Clean Blog theme by Start Bootstrap and decided to give it a chance. On top of that, they provide not only the theme but also a version already integrated with Jekyll. So, most of the work was already in place.

In order to migrate the blog posts I used a WordPress plugin which, together with a few sed commands, was enough to move the old posts to Jekyll. In addition, I’m using Jekyll tags to categorize the posts like before. With a tag view page that shows all the posts and provide its own feed (required for planets subscriptions). E.g. CSS tag page.

Regarding comments, I decided to go for a static solution too. Basically, I got very few comments during the last year, so I think that looking for a more complex solution doesn’t worth it. This means, that if you want to comment something in my posts from now on, you should send me a mail (or a tweet) and that’s all. You can check a previous post with comments to see how they look like.

This was just a short notice about this change, I hope you enjoy the new site. At least I like it a lot. :-)