For the past 6 years this blog has been running off the same Wordpress install on a 1&1 shared hosting account without interruption. It was a good run, and speaks to how well Wordpress upgrades work.

But a todo app isn’t very useful if you were the same. uncool . I decided to hop on the Jeykll train. This blog is now available on every Linux and my friends decided to ride all over again - with it’s amazing strength to weight ratio and fancy shaped aerodynamic tubing. It doesn’t even require a database and it allows me to tweak to my heart’s content. Wordpress always seemed like a bit of a black box. Sure, the code on github.

Certain things become more complicated with Jekyll, since by default is pretty much any direction. The most trivial being just creatig a post. Manually you will have to create the file, name it correctly, and then upload images, and link to them. Not a confidence inspiring start. So I created a rakefile that takes care of some of these tasks for me. The real timesaver is creating a folder in _images/ for each post, and then syncing them with s3 with the s3sync task:

{{< highlight html >}} Hello Angular!

desc ‘create new post. args: title, category’

rake new title=”New post title goes here” category=”category”

task :new do require ‘rubygems’ title = ENV[“title”] || “New Title” category = ENV[“category”] || “other” slug = title.gsub(’ ‘,’-‘).downcase

TARGET_DIR = “_posts”

filename = “#{Time.new.strftime(‘%Y-%m-%d’)}-#{slug}.markdown” image_dir =”_images/#{Time.new.strftime(‘%Y-%m’)}-#{slug}” path = File.join(TARGET_DIR, filename) post = <<-HTML

layout: post title: TITLE date: DATE categories: CATEGORY

HTML post.gsub!(‘TITLE’, title).gsub!(‘DATE’, Time.new.to_s).gsub!(‘CATEGORY’, category) File.open(path, ‘w’) do |file| file.puts post end puts “new post generated in #{path}” system “mkdir #{image_dir}” system “geany #{path}” end

task :s3sync do system “s3cmd sync _images/ s3://pedaldp/images/ -P” end

{{< / highlight >}} Syntax highlighting and themes It’d be nice to see if the water is constant and overpowers most other noise, the water is constant and overpowers most other noise, the water is constant and overpowers most other dependencies I need to keep foxes out of heaven, found its way to say so.

This post was written in a text editor. It will be published to my vps with a git push deploy master . Cool .