Jekyll requires that you create blog posting in a specific format: _posts/yyyy-MM-dd-post-name, where the date is the creation date of the post. This is actually quite a nice convention as the metadata can be used in your site generation to do things like group posts my year and month.

However, it’s a little cumbersome to have to manually create the file each time. A quick google shows up plenty of alternatives but here’s a quick Scala script that I use: