Until “now” I was happy user of Jekyll static site generator, everything worked fine with it and blog was easy to manage. The major drawback of Jekyll (for me that is) is that it is written in Ruby and I never before worked with Ruby. Because of this I diceded to go the “easy” route and use docker image to simplify the initial installation and Jekyll management. The official docker image works fine, the only thing I needed to do was to add ruby gem local cache so it would not need to download all that mess over and over again (what a hell that is). This setup worked fine until for some reason docker started crashing from time to time. It somehow was always down after some time when I wanted to create some post. And since this is the only thing using docker on my VPS I decided to throw it away and once again jump into the rabbit hole of internet to find a good solution to replace it (I am too lazy to craft one from the ground up).

After some time I once again tried to create a blog. This time with it should be nice static site with dark design and only memories. At first I went on journey to find a nice dark theme which I would use as a base. After a bit I found tocttou/hacker-blog which is really nice. See demo. Customization It sounds all nice and fine but it is a bit plain. I decided that categories or tags would be nice. I chose tags because it is shorter and looks better. After a bit of search I stumbled upon a nice example. In the end it required a bit more work to add all functions but the basic idea was there. I added list of tags for each post on index: