Today, one day before my 35th birthday, I’ve decided to move my blog from Wordpress to GitHub Page. Even though I don’t post alot in recent 2 years but I do consider it’s really cool building this blog with Jekyll and GitHub Pages, as well as writing blog post with Markdown.
New Blogging Experience
I have sucessfully developed an increasing interest in building websites with fast speed and great performance during my entrepreneurship of e-commerce for the last 3 year. The business did not end well despite I built 3 Shopify sites and I’ve found some fun messing around with the Liquid files.
WordPress is great. I have used it for 5 years to store my writings and input from my magazine time, and to serve the personal diaries I have written so far. But I felt I wasn’t really using many of its features and I wanted to use a Markdown to compose and store my posts - I just feel cool doing it!
Before WordPress, I’d been through Sina Blogs, Blogbus and Qzone since high school. It was always fun time and I missed it when I had more desire to express. This is important, I mean the desire to express, 表达的欲望.
I set up this blog to Jekyll and GitHub Pages, and the process has turned out to be easy enough for me without being a professional frontend tech guy. Thanks to Google, GitHub and Cotes Chung’s amazing Chirpy theme, I did not have to build it from scratch, while it still took me a week to test out what was the ultimate solution for my new blog.
I have wanted to give Hexo a try, after several days’ testing and having found Chirpy, I decided go with Jekyll finally.
Main purpose of my blog
- Documentation for my writings, field recordings, and thoughts
- Presentation for my expertise in Music Industry
- Promotion for the indie music I love in China
For the next couple months I will just keep blogging for the pure fun of writing in Markdown.
Open Sources I am using
- Jekyll
- Chirpy Jekll Theme
- jsDelivr Open Source CDN