about
Motivation
Jekyll-bootstrap is meant to make it easier for technically-minded people to share their knowledge.
As a self-taught web-developer I am continually indebted to all the diligent people who share their knowledge, bug fixes, and lessons through blogging.
I always thought “I should really share my experiences too”, but I never manage to get past the mental obstacle of having to setup a wordpress install and use some UI to write words. Then do I have to figure out how to highlight code or what?
The point is I’m lazy in that way. I have 3 wordpress accounts, a posterous, a sinatra site, and a twitter, all of which get updated once a year if I’m feeling generous.
Jekyll is Different.
Actually Jekyll was pretty damned frustrating when I started out - which is why I created Jekyll-bootstrap. But aside from that, jekyll just feels right to me.
I want to write articles like I write code.
So this time I feel like I’ve got something here. This time I feel like Jekyll can finally be the motivation I need - the convenience I crave - that gets me posting and sharing on a regular basis.
As for my first flurry of content, I would like to share everything I learned about using Jekyll
- and that’s Jekyll-bootstrap.
People
Jekyll-bootstrap is maintained by me, Jade Dominguez. I encourage everyone to check out the contribute page if you are interested in helping. =)
Mostly I try to contribute to GitHub-backed projects because I have a not-so-secret mission to somehow work for GitHub in the near future. I still need to plan my attack though. But if anyone can help, please contact me!