I’ve been putting off creating a blog for years now, because I dreaded being one of those blogs where they put up an enthusiastic “First post!!” and then go dark for three years. But lately I’ve been hanging out on the cpplang Slack and I keep finding myself in discussions (okay, occasionally they’re “debates”) where I say something and think, “Gee, I wish I could save that comment and repost it the next five times I’m discussing this same topic with someone who isn’t here right now!”

So this morning I went looking for a way to host a blog right here on GitHub and write posts in Markdown… and lo and behold, googling “github markdown blog” led me straight to a blog post by Joseph Tyler Jones describing how to do exactly that using “Jekyll Now”, a project by Barry Clark. So I followed the instructions to fork the Jekyll Now repository, change some YAML config, upload the photo of myself you see above, and ta-da, it Just Worked! So, thanks to those guys (and presumably some others as well).

Now all I need to do is figure out how to add tags to Jekyll posts…

If you would like to join the C++ Slack workspace as well, you can get invited here.