I got the itch to start blogging again. But did I start blogging? No. Instead, I migrated from Octopress to Jekyll. With the release of Jekyll 2, many of the niceties of Octopress were built right into Jekyll, so I didn’t see a point to stay with Octopress.
It wasn’t a bad migration, though the theme I had been using was getting ugly to maintain. While I liked the theme, it was overly complex for my needs. Seeing as my front-end chops are lacking, simplifying the CSS and layout was a priority. I took this as an opportunity to redesign the site as well. I started with the Hikari theme and modified. I also added in Gulp to convert & minify the SASS. Admittedly, Gulp was getting far afield from the original intent, but I had been interested in learning about Gulp for a while now. Now that I have what I have, I might take it a step further and migrate from Jekyll to Wintersmith. Then I won’t have this weird Gulp/Jekyll mix that isn’t quite perfect.
I had been hosting the Octopress version on Heroku. This time I chose S3 with the static site option. I found a great blog post by Michaël Gallego on configuring S3, Route 53, & CloudFront. I dropped CloudFront piece because cache invalidation takes to long while I tweak the live site. I will probably add it back once I get that figured out.
Let me know what you think.