Development

I frequently cover large distances by car, be it visiting friends or moving to work or university. At the moment it seems I can’t go very far without arriving at some part of the country disrupted by Smart Motorway upgrades, horrible peak time traffic, or something else entirely! I’m normally well equipped to deal with such hold ups, however without the ability to contact people while on the road, I can’t let them know where I am.

For a long time, I was running a webserver that served up a few handwritten HTML pages. I’d used the Bootstrap to try and make the content a bit prettier, but it was never that great. In addition I was rarely able to add content, since writing HTML is a relatively slow and boring process. My friend Harry Beadle showed me how he’d started writing his website in markdown, using Jekyll to convert the files into a complete website.