Moving to Octopress

1 · Seth Vargo · Dec. 21, 2012, midnight
Today, I spent a few hours and migrated my entire blog from tumblr to Octopress. I did this for a variety of reasons. First, I want to start posting more tutorials. The tumblr UI doesn't provide an effective way to add code and code snippets, it doesn't support markdown, and I don't have a ton of control over the design. Second, tumblr goes down... a lot. With 1000+ hits on my blog per day, 83% uptime is not acceptable. Lastly, it was recently announced that work has restarted on the Jekyll p...