Just as example programs use “Hello World” and tutorials or getting started guides use “MyFirstClass” a blog has to start somewhere.

This article will be the first to be pulished here, and it will also provide some content to play around with formatting and layout, topics which are not within my area of expertise.

Having had the domain for a while now, I’ve been struggling to get started properly. The original intention was to use the domain for multiple purposes, one of which being a website where I could write about technical topics and post “how-tos”.

Eventhough I am always interested in new technologies, whether they are new for me or just new in general, I am by no means a front-end developer, nor do I believe myself to be well versed in UI/UX design, so I decided I needed something simple for the website.

Another consideration was to use something that primarily uses text files as a base, since that means I can potentially move everything without having to put a lot of effort in updating the content, in the event that I decide the framework needs to be replaced.

In the end I decided to host it with GitHub Pages and generating the static contens using Jekyll, as that is supported out of the box when using GitHub.

While this may not be a very original choice, it would mean not having to worry about the server architecture and would allow me to focus on actually creating the content.

This brings me to this point where I’ve now written a small article and set up some simple boilerplate code to generate the site and publish it.

Hopefully, this means the first hurdle is taken and the next steps to create additional content will be easier.