I decided that before the new year I want to somewhat reshape the disfinder.com domain — instead of a blog on the root page, make a landing page that would host links to the blog and some useful articles.
The reshaping turned out to be fairly easy, and the obvious choice was Github Pages, for a few reasons:
- I already have it set up
- it’s plain markdown, easy to back up just in case (unlike Blogger)
But the markdown turned out to be not so plain — it’s Jekyll — and anyone who wants to write nice, useful articles there needs to get the hang of Jekyll first.
I spent three hours wrestling with ruby, gems, bundler, googling the LoadError: cannot load such file -- google/protobuf_c error — and eventually gave up for now. I’ll write the article by hand in markdown; Jekyll can go to hell along with its ruby.
Stay tuned.