Hello world, Jekyll style!

This is my first micro-post using Jekyll. It’s pretty exciting.

I have always thought about hosting my own microblog. I don’t want to make money, I just want to share some stuff that I find interesting. I researched for the lowest barrier to entry to this world–ideally with the lowest cost–and settled on a combination of GitHub pages and Jekyll. Amazingly, this is FREE to use, if you are happy to keep a generic URL reponame.github.io. However, I recently decided to purchase alextorrens.com (I definitely didn’t need the .com domain but, eh, it’s my name) and I linked the repo to my custom domain and BAM, here we are. Expect to see this “static” blog website change a fair bit, as a slowly add content and learn how to make it prettier. Lots of tech I’m revisiting and/or learning from scratch:

• Git in the terminal and GitHub
• Jekyll (OSS project written in Ruby and the Gems ecosystem)
• Websites and domain names
• Markdown
• Who knows what else when I run into one of many technical issues!

Some of the topics I may want to write about include:

• Sport–both playing and watching
• Tech
• Food
• Cooking
• Photography
• Travel
• Science And combinations thereof!