Summary
This is my personal website, with source open to world in all of it’s splendor and glory. It’s generated by running some basic markdown files and layout templates through an awesome app called Jekyll, and then uploading the static files to my webserver.
This method of serving a personal blog and project portal seems to becoming increasingly popular with developers– it seems the hacky nature of using git to version a website you update by creating flat-text files is too much to resist for most. I too have taken the plunge, and now have the source open here.
The initial release was quickly thrown together from scratch in a few days, so hopefully I can jump through a few major versions as I clean up the code and layout.
I use a 1140-pixel-wide CSS grid framework from cssgrid.net, which was great for getting a nice and clean layout setup. The site also uses some basic jQuery calls to display Twitter, Last.fm, and GitHub information, and the JavaScript definitely needs some cleaning up.