Jekyll is the generator to make this blog/static site. It uses the Minima theme with no customizations, and is hosted on a Digital Ocean VPS. I use Visual Studio Code to write the posts, the command line jekyll serve -w to preview it, JEKYLL_ENV=production jekyll build to generate the files, and an rsync to publish.

This site started out as a Harp site, and in late 2020, I converted it to Jekyll releatively easily, as the posts were already in Markdown, though I did have to convert some of the HTML using Turndown (there’s a good Turndown plugin for Visual Studio Code).

The Links page is generated using the Jekyll Pinboard Plugin and pulls in from my bookmarks tagged with raspberrypiblog (for the Blogs section) and raspberrypi (for the Bookmarks section) .

The SSL certificate is generated by Let’s Encrypt and is renewed automatically, though I check it every 3 months just in case it’s not.