Meditation is best learned with a good teacher. I highly recommend Bhante Vimalaramsi at http://www.dhammasukha.net/
I recently did a 5 day retreat and it was life changing. He makes meditation practical, fun and rewarding.
Blippy co-founder here. Yes, GIF is a really old format. We have to work a lot on optimizing for performance. Surprising that it is the only popular one that allowed any animation. Others like Animated PNG did not take off.
Jekyll is pretty neat. I too recently switched from wordpress to Jekyll and haven't looked back. I have open sourced my blog at https://github.com/abhayv/abhayv.github.io