Create Your Blog Site for Free

Spoiler Alert: Github

You have to create the Content. Many other people will do the likes.

In case you missed Jeremy Howard’s tweet:

I did a deep-dive into @GitHub Pages, and found it’s possible to create a *really* easy way to host your own blog: no code, no terminal, no template syntax. I made “fast_template” to pull this together,

Your own hosted blog, the easy, free, open way (even if you're not a computer expert)

I had known about the Github service, but I was not in immediate need of a blog site. Besides, there was a considerable switching-cost because I had not fooled around with Ruby in over four years.

As Jeremy Howard states in his blog:

GitHub’s own documentation on setting up a blog requires installing the Ruby programming language, using the git command line tool, copying over version numbers, and more. 17 steps in total!

How was using fast_template?

Jeremy Howard's blog outlines in detail how to create your free blog site and how to use the template. What I will detail is my experience in following his blog in setting up my own free blog site on Github.