Moving My Website from Jekyll to Django

July 25, 2026

A quick heads-up, and sorry if I flooded your feed

Quick PSA: I just moved my website off Jekyll and GitHub Pages and onto Django. If you subscribe to me, this move probably messed up your feed reader. I tried to make the new feeds as close to identical as I could, but if you woke up to a flood of my old posts today, sorry about that. Expect the same thing next week when I move my micro blog on micro.webology.dev over too.

That is really the whole point of this post: a heads-up and an apology in advance.

Why bother

This is not a knock on Jekyll or GitHub Pages. I think Jekyll is a great project, and GitHub Pages is cheap and about the fastest way I know to get a site published. I have built thirty or forty sites in Jekyll over the years, so I know its warts and corner cases well, and I still have nothing but love for both. It was a great hammer for a long time.

The move to Django is about flexibility. I did not want limits on what I could do with collections and data anymore, most of my content is automated from a bunch of different sources, and I wanted to control the underpinnings of the site, like Open Graph images, without fighting a static site generator to do it. I also want a better story for images and screenshots, and eventually the writing interface I actually want. That is a longer post for another day.

For now, thanks for bearing with the feed noise.