So here we go, I finally got around to building a blog, and after looking around at different options i ended up using Jekyll and github pages. In addition to getting me this webpage, it allowed me to get some basic insight into ruby, making this a case of two birds one stone.
Getting things to work have been quite a fiddle, so lets walk through how I got things up and running.
The first step was to get ruby and jekyll installed on my local machine for testing. After trying with wsl I lost my patience and to my surprise it was easier to install directly in windows. Jekyll has a great guide on how to install ruby, jekyll and all dependencies at https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/windows/.
The next step was to create my github repository. To be able to host github pages you have to name the repository <username>.github.io where you replace <username> with your github username. After that I cloned my repository to my local machine and initiated jekyll by running jekyll new . in my repository.
At this point I got a basic blog. By using bundle exec jekyll serve the webpage is built and hosted locally for testing. It works, but now it’s time to pretty the page up a bit. After looking around on different themes for a while I ended up choosing Hamilton, it fits my needs nicely, and i really enjoy the look. Installing it was as easy as following the guide in the documentation, you just have to remember to change the theme in _config.yml, to ensure that you use the new theme. That took far to long to realise, but finally I made it.