=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
 title: Jekyll Is Good Enough
 date: 2023-11-11 00:00:00
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

This blog has undergone an insane amount of change in the 15 years
that I've operated it.

From whole grain, hand-cut HTML to **WordPress** to **Tumblr** to
**Medium**, I've experimented with just about every blog platform
and provider you can think of, but it wasn't until I landed on
Jekyll [0] that my journey of finding the *"right"* platform ended.

It's not that Jekyll is perfect. Far from it, in fact. Liquid
templates are a pain in the ass, and the plugin architecture leaves
a lot to be desired, but it gets the job done and ultimately churns
out a reliable, consistent static website that looks and feels the
way _I_ want it to.

I've seen a lot of posts across the blogiverse (blogosphere?) about
people moving their entire blog infrastructure over to Eleventy
[1], or rolling their own static site generator, and while I enjoy
reading their journeys, I've found that I'm perfectly happy with
the tooling that I have.

It's not sexy. It's not even very modern (by 2023 standards), but
it works; and at this point in my life, I'm starting to understand
what our dads meant when they used to say _"if it ain't broke,
don't fix it."_

---
[0]: https://jekyllrb.com/
[1]: https://www.11ty.dev/
---

>> This is post 002 of #100DaysToOffload

EOF