I hosted theza.ch on wordpress.com for many years. However, in the age of markdown and github, the Wordpress editor just feels ancient and unusable.
So I’m joining the modern age and moving to Jekyll and Github Pages. Now I can simply whip up a markdown file and git push to publish new posts. Beautiful Jekyll also seems to be a great, simple theme.
While Jekyll seems like a super easy way to publish simple posts, sometimes I want to include an entire code project along with a blog post. I’ve found that the easiest way to accomplish this is in a dedicated github repo and its README.md. A good example is this experiment with Flink watermarks. I think I’ll continue doing this, and whenever I do I’ll include a short post on this blog that links to the repo.
I don’t intend to move any existing blog posts from wordpress into this blog. To maintain support for existing links, the jekyll-redirect-from gem is really useful. Now URLs like https://theza.ch/2017/01/16/updating-materialized-views-and-caches-using-kafka/ are redirected to https://zcox.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/updating-materialized-views-and-caches-using-kafka/.
Now it’s time to get to work and start blogging again!