Hello, World! (?)

I’ve had the decision to completely restart my website made for me. The previous incarnation of my site was being generated via a post-commit hook in a git repository that lived on a VM at Slicehost. I decided to shut down that VM and move the website to a system that I didn’t have to maintain. Unfortunately, I thought that I had the git repository mirrored on my GitHub account, but apparently not. I’m sure I could come up with usable backups if I put forth enough effort, but let’s be honest: thanks largely to Twitter, I had barely updated the site in the last 2 years, and a lot of what was there was either outdated or of no real value to anyone other than myself.

So here we go again. This time around, I’m just using GitHub’s pages feature to publish the site. I don’t have to maintain the server, and now I know that the repository is on my GitHub account.

UPDATE I’m actually switching to using toto with Heroku. I like toto better than jekyll, because I don’t have to put up with using the Liquid page templating engine. Plain-old ERB FTW!