My aim when setting up this blog (perhaps also when setting up my first Wordpress blog ever) is just for the fun of hacking the CMS itself. I just have never been much of a writer who actually blogs myself. That pretty much will later explain my future plan on migrating my Wordpress posts to this Jekyll site.

But why now? Well, since I decided to blog more seriously on Wordpress, I have been looking for a Wordpress theme that actually is a blog (i.e. without unnecessary slider, footer, header, menu bar, widgets and other feature). I ended up with my current Bosco theme that is of course quite beautiful.

Nevertheless, these are a few key things why I now blog using Jekyll.

A text interface calms my nerve

I may stick a little bit longer with Wordpress, but I find myself more comfortable with a text interface rather than a visual interface when writing a post.

I try to pay careful attention to details like how many SPACE and ENTER characters I have used. Just like writing with Microsoft Word, I make sure that show paragraph symbols button is clicked.

So I know for more sure that I won’t somehow leave one or two extra unused HTML tag(s) because of that creepy Visual interface.

\(\LaTeX\) is more beautiful

This first came to my attention when reading Daniel Seita’s blog. And yes, compared to Wordpress’ LaTeX, I have to admit it.

Code highlighting

Now this,

 print("This is awesome") 

I’m thinking of posting a few of my thesis materials here

This further explains why I need that beautiful \(\LaTeX\) (and code highlighting feature).

Ultimately, I get to hack my way through all this

Blogging may never be my primary purpose when setting all these up. I also get to learn a little bit of Git/Github (and expect to learn more in the near future).