I’ve just switched the blog over to Octopress. I’ve been using vanilla Jekyll for a while to keep up this blog, and I put a bit of effort into configuring it, building up a set of Bootstrap-based templates and so on. So, why switch?

At the end of the day, this is a utilitarian site. I’m not going to impress anyone with my design chops – I enjoy graphic design in theory, and I’d like to think that I’m not the absolute worst at it, but I do little enough HTML these days that it takes a long time to get things done, for end results that are never what I want them to be. And I’d rather put the time into writing actual content¹. Meanwhile, my site wasn’t displaying terribly well on phones, and Octopress handles mobile devices well out of the box. And it’s beautiful to boot².

So, I’m impressed so far. Thanks Brandon!