Still amused by how I’ve gone full circle from Blosxom to Jekyll

Blosxom entries were kind of like the precursor to YAML frontmatter + Markdown.

post title

<p>content written as an HTML fragment</p>

Instead of pseudo-XML parsed by regexes(!!), now I’m dealing with Liquid tags (which I learned to use while blogging with Mephisto.

But I don’t have any desire to code my own blog engine now. Except for how long it takes to rebuild my blog, Jekyll pretty much fulfills all of my needs right now.