I am starting this blog mostly to share Emacs tricks and perhaps talk about some R projects of mine. As is often the case, this blog will serve as a way of keeping trace of how I solved a problem or where I found a solution.
Here's the first one: if you start a blog and like clean and minimalist layouts and workflows, it's probably best to ignore high-level wrappers like JB. Just bite the bullet and learn pure Jekyll. I started with JB but ended up removing all of it layer after layer. The only bit I still use is the rakefile to create new posts, but this is trivial stuff.
Also, I quickly gave up on the idea of having Github generate the pages. Most Jekyll plugins are not supported (such as generators of tag pages) and it's easy enough to build the pages locally and push the html to your Github repository.