Decided to try an switch from Wordpress to Jekyll. While Wordpress provides a ton of features, the interface for creating blog entries is overly burdensome. Also, Wordpress continues to announce security vulnerabilities. Jekyll uses a markdown file which provides for a pure editing experience. However, most anything in Jekyll requires modification of layout and include HTML files. Jekyll uses some Liquid to provide development capabilities inside the HTML files. Jekyll combines the templates with the markdown into static HTML files.

My two favorite things are that Jekyll can be run on a local workstation so you can preview changes and everything can check into a Git Repository

This is the initial release, aside from some minor issues, content is showing up. Next release of this blog will include comments and search functionality.