So after spending a few hours, I have a mostly working static Jekyll blog that leverages a custom lime theme I created.

While I dabbled with Jekyll a year or so ago (as I was looking at making a dedicated midjourney blog at the time), I never really got around to making a full-fledged blog with it.

Static blogs were quite popular back in the day (circa 2008) and filled a niche for those of us who were tired of dealing with PHP systems like e107 and the inevitable exploits that arose.

While there were a number of static blog systems that were available back then.

I wrote my own engine in Python that integrated into Scrivener and used it for a few years on my other developer blog before getting tired of maintaining it.

Lately I have been feeling nostalgia for the days of having a static blog, and based off my prior experience with Jekyll, I decided it would be a good foundation to build a new static blog on.

Currently, I have most of the core blog theme foundation in place; However, I still need to add some search functionality and a few other features before I can consider it complete.

I have some older code that I wrote while playing around with the midjourney blog that I can likely reuse for this endeavor

Also, I was experimenting with Elevenlabs Audio Native Tool and applying my own custom voice for reading these blog posts.

Overall, there is a bit of a learning curve to get everything working and sounding ok, But I am optimistic and I think it will be a nice feature to have on the blog.