This is the third iteration of my blog. I've also written a detailed meta-post on its construction.
This is now powered by Jekyll, and auto-built and hosted on Github pages. Previously, I've tried:
- Wordpress.com: See my old blog.
- nanoc: See my nanoc blog.
The theme this blog wears is hand-crafted; I found it way easier than adapting someone else's theme.
Some of the themes I considered before rolling my own are:
- Minimal Mistakes: This is a beautiful theme by Michael Rose, but the code presented too great a learning curve.
- So Simple: Another beautiful theme by Michael Rose, with the same problem as above.
- Greyshade: A Medium-esque Octopress theme.
- Left: A clean, white Jekyll theme.
The design has some key influencers:
- The PureCSS Blog Layout: PureCSS also forms the backbone of this blog.
- Medium.com: Particularly their layout for an individual post.
- Aaron Moodie's Blog: Follows a Tumble-log style, with different post types.
- mnmlist: An inspiration for life too.
I also use icons from FontAwesome.