As I mentioned in Why no blog updates for over a year, I ran into some problems with Jekyll, the framework I used to publish blog entries. I eventually fixed the problem. Then I tried to update Jekyll. Which caused different problems.
So I’m done with Jekyll. I’ve moved to Hugo. While that is the name of Martin Scorscese’s only film for children, it’s also the name of another framework for generating websites (from Markdown files).
Frankly, both Jekyll and Hugo are probably more than I need to write a few blog posts. Initially I wanted the challenge of setting up a framework that would allow me to write my blog posts in Markdown and not have to think too much about generating or publishing. But once I had successfully completed the challenge, I found I didn’t need the headaches of keeping the framework working.
Jekyll and Hugo are both simple to use to write and to generate. It’s the publish part of the equation that is still frustrating.