So I have decided to try Jekyll on my Github Page, after wanting to try it since a long time before already. But It still took some-time for me to really understand what Jekyll is. Why was it?

Jekyll & Octocat

The first reason, and also the main one, is because I have used Git & Github for a while already. And I thought that Github will never modify whatever it is that has been pushed to my repo automagically for me. And now, knowing this Jekyll, things are different.

It took me a while reading through the Jekyll docs to find out what I need to do to generate the static files to push to Github. Meanwhile, what really needed is just a simple git commit & git push, and then Github itself will process whatever it is that I have pushed. Looking at my siriusdely.github.com repo, still there are no static HTML, JS, or CSS files there. Amazing!

The second reason, I think is because I just barely knew how Github Page show which branch of the repo to show. I thought it only cared about things inside the gh-pages branch, but I was wrong. I just know that master branch is actually being used for User and/or Organization page. gh-pages branch is for Project page. And even for Project, Github Page can be done by providing things inside docs folder on the master branch. Those knowledge are new to me.