To serve up static pages generated by Jekyll, I use my favorite static-file webserver: publicfile. To save my bandwidth and your time, I wanted to support gzip compression. The gzip compression patch for publicfile does it in the simplest possible way: it checks for a .gz version of every file and sends you that if it can (and if your browser supports it). Producing all these files by hand got tedious, so I wrote this generator plugin for Jekyll.