Setting up personal blog on github pages

As many of people who attempted and continued to develop, I’ve tried starting up my blog around 10+ times :) I tried many different options :

Wordpress
some weird in place CMS
adobe muse/ adobe webflow
wix
Angular 1 static sites
Angular 2 + Wordpress API
Static html pages
Contenful CMS with some frameworks and etc.

I wasn’t really happy with those. From one side, tons of control, but do we actually need all of the overhead? Damn no!

So, this is my final attempt which gonna live forever on Github Pages and doesnt really require nothing but tiny time investment to maintain it & set it up.

My requirment :

no hustle with servers or hosting
super simple setup
none or very little maintenance
allows comments
allows code formatting
something used by many, and it proven by time

Result : blog on github pages

How did I compelete it :

used the template https://github.com/artemsheludko/flexible-jekyll
updated the _config.yaml file with my own settings, uploaded my own profile pic to assets/img folder
removed unnecessary posts in _post folder
removed disqus integration from file _layouts/post.html Maybe for someone it works, I do find it too bulky…)
added integration with https://utteranc.es/ This one, adds to each post a github issue & allows people to comment via their gihub profile. Wich i find amazing simple & all stored in github :)