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My brief dabble in Jekyll, GitHub Pages + IndieWeb
For the last week or so, I have been playing around with Jekyll and GitHub Pages as a possible replacement for my current WordPress site.
It was all very fun, and the simplicity of posting makes it a very attractive alternative.
Unfortunately, I have a lot of Indieweb features on my site (webmentions, micropubs, and postkinds etc.), and everything falls over when I try to implement Indieweb to a static website.
It is possible that I can get some kind of system working after another couple of weeks of tinkering. But I decided to stop instead.
The mood I got while researching Indieweb solutions/plugins for Jekyll is that most people have moved away from it. Either they have given up on Indieweb, or they have moved away from Jekyll.
Even if I were to get my site working now, there’s no guarantee that some future Jekyll update won’t break everything. So do I really want to spend unknown hours converting my existing WordPress site to Jekyll only to have it break a year from now? The answer, for now at least, is no.
If I got the wrong impression of the Jekyll/Indieweb landscape out there, by all means reach out and let me know. I’d love to know how you set up your site.
About a month ago I stumbled across this webring.
Webring, I hear you ask, is this 1996? No, this is a current, active webring. I find that infinitely charming and nostalgic.
It’s also how I discovered a thriving community of personal websites: neocities.org, which reminds me of high school, when we’d handcraft each individual page. Again, nostalgia.
This may have led to me researching Jekyll static sites — but that’s another story…
It’s been a while since I’ve last been at a drive-thru cinema.
It wasn’t the best movie-watching experience, but it was novel.
We watched Novocaine – No Pain.
Novocaine, 2025 – ★★★
Black Bag, 2025 – ★★½
In the Lost Lands, 2025 – ½
I don’t know why I watched this… it was so bad.. it didn’t even have interesting action scenes.
Only consolidation prize was me and my partner laughed about how bad it was as we walked out.
Captain America: Brave New World, 2025 – ★★★
It was less bad than I thought it would be, though it’s strange to be told that our new Captain American is not a super soldier and yet he can be stabbed, or go head-to-head with a Hulk and not die.
The Fall Guy, 2024 – ★½
I kind of understand what the movie is trying to do; it’s a love letter to stunt people and physical stunt effects.
However, as a movie, of any genre (rom com, action, mystery), it just doesn’t work. The pacing is bad, the story is barely coherent.
The “plot” is just an excuse to string a series of stunts together.
So, maybe worth watching on a streaming service you’re already paying for, if you have nothing better to do, and you’re interesting in watching stunt scenes.
