Thank You Github

April 20, 2010 – Philly

Yesterday’s post was apparently pretty popular. If you look at the image below, you’ll see that over the past 24 hours (there’s no timestamp, so just trust me), I had 9,001 visits and 10,101 page views. Given that my previous high was around 50, I’m a little excited.

As some of you may remember from Monday’s post, I’m a fan of separating content from style. This is where Github comes in. I’m hosting my blog there using mojombo’s jekyll, a static site generator written in Ruby.

Much of what I like about showoff is what I like about jekyll as well. When I’m working on the content, there’s nothing else on my mind. It’s just me, a terminal, and this post. I’m able to focus on what I want to say with no other distractions. As a bonus, Github’s pages service will generate a static copy and host it for me. This meant no headaches yesterday. I was free to happily watch my traffic grow. Thanks Github, you make life better in so many ways.