Almost every developer wants to maintain a devlog. There are a few difficulties though. Here are the top 2 in my mind.

Difficulties:

  1. Laziness
  2. Devs usually can’t/don’t want to reveal their work because of legal/marketing issues

Solutions:

  1. I have resolved not to be lazy. Trust me.
  2. I work on open source stuff. So I don’t think there’ll be issues.

I am an active Twitter user but it is not suited for large posts. First, I experimented with just echoing text into a log file.

Example:

echo "Welcome to my devlog!" >> 08-12-2014.log

However, this approach did not seem comfortable.

  1. I wanted timestamps and I didn’t want to do them manually
  2. I wanted to maintain them online instead of limiting myself to a local machine
  3. I wanted to learn something new on the way

I remembered GitHub pages and that I had created one at anirudh24seven.github.io long ago. I experimented around for a while and came upon Jekyll. It seemed to be just what I wanted.

So, here I am, serving up my first devlog with Jekyll and GitHub pages. Thanks GitHub!

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