I recently considered changing the static blog generator I was using from Jekyll to something like nanoc that is better maintained and has better documentation. As I was mulling over whether I wanted to do that I saw the release of Octopress version 2.0 which is based on Jekyll. Octopress adds a default theme and rake tasks to help automate various tasks. Octopress also includes plugins for twitter and pinboard along with extensive documentation which is something that Jekyll was missing.

I decided it would be the least amount of work to move my posts into Octopress rather than migrating to a different platform so that is what I have done. I have been pretty happy so far. My next task will be to start modifying the layout to be something I like better as I have never liked any blog engine’s default theme so things may look a little wonky as I make changes.