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+Workspace setup
+---------------
+
+* To reduce pain, set up [rbenv] to manage your Ruby versions.
+Install one that's known to work: `make ruby`
+    * Otherwise, make sure you have Ruby and [Bundler] set up.
+* Install dependencies: `make deps`
+* Make sure builds are working: `make build`
+
+[rbenv]: https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv
+[Bundler]: https://bundler.io/
+
+Development
+-----------
+
+* Build the example website and serve it at http://localhost:4000/wireguard-config/:
+`make serve`
+    * It will pick up changes and reload pages automatically.
+
+Upgrading dependencies
+----------------------
+
+Ruby dependencies:
+
+    bundle update
+
+Node.js dependencies:
+
+    make npm
+    npm update
+    make bundle
+
+Building static pages
+---------------------
+
+If you try to copy the _site directory and open index.html without running the
+web server, it won't work: all links will be messed up.
+Jekyll doesn't provide native support for generating a static website which can
+be browsed without running a web server.
+
+One workaround is to `wget` the website:
+
+    make serve LIVE_RELOAD=0    # Live reloading breaks wget
+    make wget
+
+The truly static version will be downloaded to the .wget/ directory.
+
+Node.js dependencies
+--------------------
+
+For IP address parsing and validation, [ipaddr.js] was used originally.
+It is pre-built for browser use, which is nice; however, it's [buggy].
+It was replaced by [ip-address], which is not browser-ready; instead,
+[Browserify] is used to turn it into a suitable .js file.
+
+This whole situation sucks, but I really want to keep this website static.
+TODO: find other options or wait until ipaddr.js fixes the bug.
+
+[ipaddr.js]: https://github.com/whitequark/ipaddr.js
+[buggy]: https://github.com/whitequark/ipaddr.js/issues/160
+[ip-address]: https://github.com/beaugunderson/ip-address
+[Browserify]: https://browserify.org/