Setting up a blog with Jekyll and GitHub Pages

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GitHub provides free hosting of static web pages through its Pages service. In this tutorial, I will describe how I set up a free developer blog with GitHub Pages and a static web page generator called Jekyll. Jekyll is written in Ruby and has built-in support for GitHub Pages.

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Note to self: When something is not working, check first that there are no typos!

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When coding or configuring software, there are often situations when things won’t work as expected. You can be stuck with a problem for hours without figuring out where the problem is, and in the end, something very simple usually solves the problem. This is exactly what happened to me as I tried to set up this blog site and get it built by GitHub Pages.

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