The first post is about this website and some of the developer tools I use.

As a developer I’m a big fan of free and open source software. I use git and GitHub everyday for my version control and code hosting, and highly recommend them. Recently github released the Github Student Developer Pack which offers a whole bunch of incredibly awesome free services to student developers that would usually not be free. All you need is a .edu email address and you’re good to go. One of the many offerings is a free domain name for a year through namecheap. I decided to take advantage of that and got the domain name bradleyconn.me (now bradleyconn.space). Shortly after I discovered GitHub Pages which allows free hosting for static webpages through your GitHub account.

I didn’t want to start creating a website from scratch so I looked around and found this awesome project called jekyll-now which allowed me to get the website up and running in no time. It is well documented and very easy to follow. GitHub Pages forces you to use jekyll, a simple, blog-aware, static site generator, written in ruby. After diving into it more I have come to like jekyll and the setup jekyll-now has started me off with. The source code for this website can be found here.

Links:
git
GitHub
Github Student Developer Pack
namecheap
GitHub Pages
jekyll-now
jekyll
jekyll guide
This website