Starting a blog

Why blogging

Writing is not precisely one of my strong suits. If I am going to try doing a PhD, and having to write, eventually - hopefully - a thesis, I better improve at it.

Since the only way of improving at something is actually doing it, I’ll try to blog about curiosities I find on my day to day work, and also about stuff I find, consider, think, do… about the thesis. Additionally, this may be helpful along the road when I need step back to write a paper.

Anyhow, this is just for my own consumption!

Jekyll

I have decided to go along with Jekyll. Markdown is easy enough to focus only on the writing. Besides, keeping it in Git in plain text is a great plus, not to mention code highlight support!

I am using the great The Plain theme, by Heiswayi Nrird with a couple of small changes. I find it pleasingly simple and straight forward.