update Jekyll and/or change blog posting to not require Jekyll

[PJHouser]

We're going to update Jekyll and/or simplify the repo for future contributors, perhaps without Jekyll. (Also, I am having trouble installing Jekyll; perhaps we should remove Jekyll for future blog posts in case future contributors have problems too?)

The page build failed with the following error:

The submodule _theme_packages/the-minimum was not properly initialized with a .gitmodules file. For more information, see https://help.github.com/articles/page-build-failed-missing-submodule.

GitHub Pages was recently upgraded to Jekyll 3.0. It may help to confirm you're using the correct dependencies:

https://github.com/blog/2100-github-pages-now-faster-and-simpler-with-jekyll-3-0

[PJHouser]

Or something! @ungoldman will help us so @alexatodd and I don't Godzilla all over.

[ungoldman]

#19 should resolve the build issues you were seeing. I added some instructions for creating a new blog post directly through github to the readme too.

[ungoldman]

Hey I think we solved this, can you close the issue?

[ungoldman]

Thanks @alexatodd!

[alexatodd]

@ungoldman thanks for pointing this out! ;-)