Welcome to my corner of the web! 🚀

I’ve set up abelcreates.com as a space to document what I’m working on, share technical writeups, and publish notes on software engineering, creative coding, and system design.

Why Jekyll & Ruby?

When building a personal site, simplicity and durability win every time. Jekyll gives us:

1. Zero Runtime Overhead: Everything compiles down to plain HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS. It loads instantly and requires zero server maintenance.
2. Markdown-First Workflow: Writing an article or tutorial is as simple as creating a .md file in the _posts folder.
3. Ruby Simplicity: Bundler manages dependencies cleanly, making local testing reproducible across any machine.
4. Git-Driven Deployments: Pushing to the main branch triggers a GitHub Actions workflow that builds the site and serves it via GitHub Pages with HTTPS.

# The simplicity of static sites
def publish_post(title)
  puts "Push to main -> GHA builds -> deployed to abelcreates.com!"
end

What’s Next?

I’ll be posting updates on projects, architecture deep-dives, and tutorials here regularly. Stay tuned!