Can you spot something new ?
I decided last week that I wanted to use Pelican for building my blog instead of Jekyll. I have just switched in the last two days and this is the first post that I am writing from the Pelican built site.
There are a lot of reasons why I switched to Pelican from Jekyll.
- I want to use GUIX SD as my primary Operating System instead of arch and Jekyll is not available on GUIX SD.
- I am more comfortable with Python rather than Ruby
- Jekyll build time increases as the number of posts increase
- Pelican offers the true
themesexperience instead of Jekyll. - Pelican takes care of a lot of things for me (like atom feed generation, pagination etc)
- Pelican plugins are easier to understand and maintain
- There is no weird
bundle ...mess anywhere. Everything is self contained. - Pelican is better than Jekyll
- Emacs has a pelican mode (oh yeah!! I use emacs!!)
So this is probably one of the biggest changes that has happened to this blog. Apart form this there have been a number of smaller changes to this blog.
- I removed the Navigation links from the top of the blog to the bottom
- I have a better footer on this blog than the previous one
- The "publishing a post" workflow is a bit complicated than a Jekyll hosted site
- I also removed some of the Signal and Sohom weirdness from the about page.
So that's about it...