author: Tyson Liddell
tags: misc

Debloating the blog build

As mentioned previously, using Jekyll to build something as simple as this blog was overkill. It now uses the following simpler structure:

• Pages written in the GitHub flavour of Markdown with no other extensions. The is simple, well supported and stable.
• The md4c C library is used to convert the markdown to html. This library is incredibly lean (3 small source files) and since I've vendored this library code into a project that I own we achieve a dependency-free method for generating the site. No Jekyll, no problems.
• A Makefile orchestrates building the site by translating the markdown files into html and generating the tags/posts index pages.
• The site is built locally, zipped and uploaded to the web host through a make target.

This is clean, simple and minimal.