Jekyll is simple but powerful, and can hosted easily on GitHub. Here’s some cheat codes on how to create nice looking posts with GFM (Github Flavored Markdown). . .
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You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated. . .