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Switching from Jekyll to Pelican

In the time since I've posted on this blog, I've erased the environment I used to set up and run Jekyll. Since I've never been a Ruby programmer and most of the code I write now is in Python, I thought I'd look into a blogging engine in Python. I found Pelican and Nikola to be recommended by a number of folks, so I decided to give Pelican a try, and it's been great so far! Using a Python based site generator feels more comfortable for me since I'm more familiar with pip than gems.

It seems remarkably similar to Jekyll and I only had to make a few small changes to the front matter on a few posts to get all of my content working with Pelican. I've made some tweaks to the default theme to move a few icons around to my liking, but otherwise haven't made major changes. I'll make a follow up post if I make interesting changes that others might want to use.

Jekyll Setup for PML

Published: Sun 31 March 2019
By Andrew Mshar

In Blog.

tags: Jekyll

I originally created this blog using an EC2 instance on AWS and used that to run Jekyll and host the site. Recently, I shut down that instance in order to move the site generation to my local machine(s) and host the site on S3. This article was very helpful …