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WordPress
WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Jekyll uses themes to change the look and feel of a site. There are plenty of themes out there, some are paid while some are free. For my blog site I liked the look and feel of startbootstrap-clean-blog-jekyll. You can find more details on how to install the template on their GitHub page
About a year ago, I wanted to record these experiences and the knowledge that I have accumulated so I started blogging. As an embedded software person, creating and maintaining a blog site was another learning curve. At the time I looked at WordPress and even that felt fairly involved. I was more interested in content creation than maintaining a CMS site and so I outsourced that responsibility by going with WordPress.com.
During my search for an alternatives I came across the concept of static site generator (SSG). Here is a good explanation of what is a static site generator. There are many SSG options out there, but I chose to go with Jekyll for how easy it was for me to get things up and running.