I'm a fan. Reminds me of mdo's http://markdotto.com/ theme (which isn't open source). Slight nitpick, I find the navigation bar to be too small/unreadable.
It definitely drew lots of inspiration from mdo's theme, and basscss.
Yeah, regarding the navigation bar, I was wondering if I should make that font a slightly larger size. I think your nitpick has persuaded me to go ahead and make it a little bigger.
Just a word of advice as someone who also released a Jekyll theme - people will not remember to change the default settings. So I would recommend you put an "example.com" email instead of your personal email in the repo (unless you like getting random emails!).
How is it when used with a self-hosted plan? Also, my client machine is Windows - I see a guide to install Jekyll on Windows, but not sure if it will actually work (not officially supported).
On the theme itself, looks good. I like it.
For comments, is disqus the recommended solution? Does it slow down the system again with database calls? Security issues again?
I am also interested in having charts, but I presume integrating those would not be much trouble.
I don't run Windows, so I don't know whether it will work or not. Charts can also be added using a js library. You will have to include the data statically in your Jekyll build, as part of the js, or you can make an API call if available.
Adding to the comment by tacticus about Disqus: It's the preferred solution for Jekyll sites since they are static. Disqus takes care of all the commenting heavy lifting on the client side, while also taking care of the database.
Very nice. My only complain is the huge footer. It really doesn't match the theme. Also, bulleted and numbered lists have smaller fonts, and their line height is odd.
There's definitely something that isn't quite right about the footer. I will have to ponder how to make it fit in more with the rest of the theme. I've just added Github issues for the lists/line height weirdness, I will fix that ASAP.
Yeah, you're definitely right on that. I'm going to be increasing the nav font size so that it's easier to read, and easier to tap on mobile devices. I overlooked that aspect a little bit =/.
The Pixyll theme uses a different DOM structure for the templates and includes, so it would require some tweaking to work with Pixyll's stylesheets. Though, it would be feasible.