I have started using Octopress last year for my other blog (in Romanian) tastatura.info.

Octopress is advertised as “a blogging framework for hackers”. As a hacker one “should be comfortable running shell commands and familiar with the basics of Git”. But it all comes down to ruby.

If you’re a Windows hacker what do you do? My first idea was to install Cygwin.

For tastatura.info I’ve used Cygwin to run Octopress. I had a laptop with an Intel Core i7 CPU, didn’t notice any slowdowns.

By the time I’ve moved this blog to Octopress I didn’t have access to that Intel Core i7 powered laptop, but instead I had an Intel Core 2 Duo powered laptop. Then I’ve noticed that Octopress was rather slow on Cygwin.

That’s when I’ve started looking for alternatives to Cygwin.

Grim Fandango is one of my favorite adventure games and when last year it was announced that a remastered version will be available for PC, Mac, and Linux, it was too good to be true!

This year at the end of January I bought the Remastered (also available on Steam, and GOG stores) version. But as it turns out I was not able to play the game on PC!

I decided to move away from Blogger blogging service to Octopress, which is “a framework designed for Jekyll, the static blogging engine powering Github Pages”.

I did the change because of two reasons:

1. Notifications for comments. When Google introduced Google+ comments to Blogger I did the switch and for some unknown reason I am not receiving notification for comments on articles. I have spent some time trying to fix this problem without success.

2. Syntax highlighting for code snippets. I was doing HTML exports from my text editor to include in blog posts, followed by a bit of HMTL fiddling, which is not always fun.