Blogging with Jekyll

I recently realized that my WordPress website / blog had gone stale. The last entry dated more than two years ago. Adding content to that site had always had a high overhead. Looking for alternatives, it turns out the web has moved on to more light-weight solutions. Jekyll in particular looks like it could be fun.

I’d like to be able to write equations in latex - MathJax provides this functionality, and it’s easy to integrate with Jekyll (see Jekyll Extras). Let’s see if this works: $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$ (this and more examples: MathJax with Jekyll). Brilliant - works like a charm!

Commenting would be great as well. Txtpen looked great, but for some reason I couldn’t sign up (kept getting a timeout, maybe a temporary issue?) so I went with Disqus instead. These instructions came in handy: Adding Disqus to a Jekyll Blog. Now, feel free to leave a comment to let me know how you like this solution.

Next up: importing content from my old WordPress site, and generating a list of publications.