tobiassjosten

So true. Though I think a lot of the insecurity comes from not knowing what is actually the norm. When I started out I thought people were kidding, that it was all a big joke, when they told me their hourly wages. Turns out you actually need to bump your prices up quite a bit for it to compensate for all "non-work" stuff.

I'm hoping this article can however slightly help shift the norm for some newly started developer, so maybe they can take the step and ask for more.

That's definitely an option and to be fair I didn't use any Jekyll plugins up until recently. But my main gripe is still the lacking redirection. I can't lose that ability for this blog and all its accumulated URL fixes over the years.

For new blogs I could definitely consider GitHub Pages. In fact I use it for one I started just a month ago.

Varnish would have been fun to play with for a static blog. For one thing you then could use ESI to not have to invalidate the cache as often.

But I disagree with one thing — the "git push → deploy dance" is a pro for Jekyll! ;)

Glad you like it! Definitely nice when you get to take the time with these kind of projects.