I’ve been blogging using Workpress since February 2005 and I think Wordpress made the Internet a better place. Luckily I never got hacked but there are just too many stories that sites got hijacked that I finally decided to switch to a static blog. Github pages with Octopress seemed like a perfect fit for my needs so here we are.

The setup is dead simple so here my steps:

Created a new Github repo srohde.github.io and a bunch of command lines to initialize Octopress:

git clone git://github.com/imathis/octopress.git octopress
cd octopress
gem install bundler
bundle install
rake install
rake setup_github_pages\[git@github.com:srohde/srohde.github.io.git\] 
rake generate & rake deploy

Bam! The static site is up! Now also commit the sources to the source branch:

git add .
git commit -am "initial commit"
git push origin source

Creating a first post (this very one) couldn’t be easier:

rake new_post\["Blog with Octopress"\]
subl source/_posts/2013-06-07-blog-with-octopress.markdown
rake generate & rake deploy

And committing the updated and new sources again:

git add .
git commit -am "first post"
git push origin source

Bamgain (did I just invent that?)! I’ve got a bunch of topics I wanted to blog about and having a new blogging engine will motivate me to actually do so. That’s how devs tick I guess. Cheers!