Welcome to my devlog
Almost every developer wants to maintain a devlog. There are a few difficulties though. Here are the top 2 in my mind.
Difficulties:
- Laziness
- Devs usually can’t/don’t want to reveal their work because of legal/marketing issues
Solutions:
- I have resolved not to be lazy. Trust me.
- 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.
- I wanted timestamps and I didn’t want to do them manually
- I wanted to maintain them online instead of limiting myself to a local machine
- 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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