An introduction to pennymark
01 Apr 2024Recently, I’ve been taking some baby steps to learn web architecture and development. A first step in this direction has been to explore Jekyll, which I learned about from a friend. Jekyll is a ruby app that can be used to quickly and cheaply spin up static web applications, with minimal software experience.
Jekyll has been a great place to start, because:
- It is a quick dev experience: there are many free templates out there that accommodate a wide range of use cases (just scroll through some of these examples to see)
- It is fast: no databases are involved
- It is also secure: no database means there’s nothing to hack
- It is cheap: again, no database means less operating costs, and in fact, you can host Jekyll blogs for free on GitHub, with two simple steps
- Point your domain name at GitHub’s servers
- Add your domain name to your GitHub repository
This blog will simply serve as my ongoing notes and takeaways on things I find interesting.