This blog uses Jekyll as the backend. It’s actually rather nice, though I’ve found that the default testing webserver (WEBrick) sucks. When I attempted to use it, I was seeing 4-5 second load times for even the simplest pages. This really doesn’t lend itself well to actually testing changes.

Fortunately, there’s a simple solution. Start the WEBrick server, and ignore it. Install nginx and configure it to point at your _site directory. WEBrick will take care of monitoring your posts/templates for changes, and regenerating the HTML. Nginx will do what it does best, and serve up static HTML at blazing speeds.

It’s a simple setup, but it means the difference between using Jekyll being unbearable and having Jekyll do what you want without getting in your way.