I recently purchased a new computer for home use. My old Surface Pro 3 with 4GB of RAM was just not cutting it for the sorts of things I would like to do on a home computer, and while it’s great for many use-cases, the form factor isn’t ideal in every scenario. One of my primary uses of that computer was for writing this blog, and I haven’t had a need to touch the tool-chain in almost 3 years. Sadly, when I tried to get it all setup again on my new computer, I was met with very prompt failure, but alas, was able to resolve it with the help of a fellow blogger using Jekyll, Dave Mateer’s blog post on ‘Running Jekyll on WSL2’. Following the steps he outlined in that post, I was able to get up and running again very quickly.

Jekyll is a great platform for generating static websites, and it’s been an absolute pleasure to use historically, but the initial setup has always been a challenge for me as a user that does not use Ruby or Linux for very much of my primary work. I really appreciate Dave’s post, and hope that by sharing it here, it will help you as well.

Thanks for reading, and keep on coding!

  • Brian