This site was originally built with Jekyll. Technically I began with the pre-packaged distribution known as Octopress which offered a Rakefile for common tasks as well as an out-of-the-box directory structure. I didn’t use many of these features, however, so I had been wanting to shed traces of Octopress, partly motivated by the pursuit of increased speed in site generation. I found the opportunity to do this when Jekyll 1.0 was released recently.