This is my first time using Jekyll.

I once created a web portfolio in Angular, but it became neglected due to its high maintenance costs and my lack of free time with my full-time job and other life obligations. I would also write blog posts on Medium, but I’ve always wanted to have my content on my own site, and Medium quit supporting custom domains a while ago.

So… today, I am combining GitHub Pages and Jekyll, an apparently very popular combination:

Search results on GitHub.com for "jekyll" returning 80 thousand results

…and it’s already obvious why it’s so loved. In the very little time I’ve spent playing with this, I have already decided that I won’t be going back to Angular or React for my web portfolio/blog. This is just SO much easier to manage. I think my favorite part is that I can write just about everything in markdown, and don’t need to worry about the HTML/CSS/JS; in other words, I can just focus on the content.