Earlier this year, I finally set up a blog on my domain, having owned but left it unused for over a year. My needs were simple: it was to be a completely static site, hostable on GitHub Pages or Dropbox, and the focus of the project was in no way to be the technology or process of creating and maintaining it. Despite the part of me that automatically geeked out at the opportunity to build my own completely custom blog generator from scratch, the point of doing it was to provide myself with a straightforward platform for writing, not to go on a technical adventure in creating one. Although I’ve only written two posts on it so far, the effort was successful: in short order, I’d set up Octopress and had it deploying to Pages.
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