imathis

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by imathis 12y ago
Thanks for your story. I've heard that from so many people. That Octopress opened doors for them and exposed them to new interests. It's pretty much the best thing I could ask to hear. I love that I was able to be a part of that s
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by imathis 12y ago
There are people who use Jekyll for multilingual blogging without any special plugin. Since I don't, I'm not sure I can give you advice on the best technique. A bit of Googling and you'll be set. If you find a workflow that w
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by imathis 12y ago
Not sure why you'd say "bad timing". Moving to Vanilla Jekyll is the right decision. You'll be able to use any and all of the new plugins. There's no distinction anymore.
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by imathis 12y ago
You can specify a specific version of a plugin in the Gemfile and it will never change, but you'll be able to update everything else.
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by imathis 12y ago
Agreed. This is a problem that I hope Jekyll manages to solve and it looks like they may be getting closer: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/pull/3116
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by imathis 12y ago
I look at GitHub issues and I'm just afraid to mess with things. Even if I fix stuff, there's a high likelihood that it will break something else or be hard to update to. I too cannot wait to release this.
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by imathis 12y ago
There have been people over the years who've been eager to build a GUI for Octopress. Without a good CLI it would be a huge pain. Many of the things I've been working on, should make it easier for that to happen.
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by imathis 12y ago
This is a post about what's badly wrong with Octopress 2.0 and how 3.0 is shaping up to be awesome.
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Octopress 3.0 is coming(octopress.org)
127 points by imathis 12y ago|33 comments
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by imathis 14y ago
Octopress has slowed down due to my need for help with a few things. I've tried working with a few folks, but it hasn't worked out. Now I'm getting the help I need and things are cranking up again. Believing that Jekyll has a future is a gr
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by imathis 15y ago
Check out the plugins for sharing code http://octopress.org/docs/blogging/code This was obsessively designed with hackers in mind.
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by imathis 15y ago
There's no official affiliation with Github. I started thinking through the branding for Octopress in 2009 when it first came out. I was looking for a good mascot and around the same time David Lanham did his 'Bubble Bay' design for a firef
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by imathis 15y ago
If you're already using Jekyll, you might consider moving to Octopress if you like the design, plugins, or rake tasks. It's MIT licensed, so if you would rather just snag those and integrate them into your existing blog that's fine too.
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by imathis 15y ago
The default theme is almost identical to the Octopress home page. The only differences are the color scheme and header logo.
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by imathis 15y ago
Everything is explained thoroughly but there are really only 3 steps, all on the first page http://octopress.org/docs/setup 1. Clone Octopress 2. Bundle install 3. Rake install The reset of the documentation is about deploying, customizin
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by imathis 15y ago
The tagline has nothing to do with Hacker News, the fact that you would even say that is amusing.
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by imathis 15y ago
Octopress is a framework for Jekyll, which — like most static site generators — was built for hackers. Octopress is a well designed starting point for Jekyll blogging.
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by imathis 15y ago
Jeykll is a static generator which has simple support for blogging. If you get started with Jeykll, you still have to write all your own HTML, CSS, etc. Getting a Jekyll blog from just a generator to the point where it's something you'd be
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by imathis 17y ago
Finally caught it. Thanks.
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by imathis 17y ago
SASS compiles to CSS.
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by imathis 17y ago
Certainly. As far as IE6 support can go without compromising on simplicity.
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by imathis 17y ago
As far as amount of css goes, here's what you're dealing with to achieve something similar in only CSS. 1. Button reset - to get browsers to the same starting point 2. Rounded corners, Text shadows, and Gradients + vendoring 3. Back
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by imathis 17y ago
IE6 doesn't easily support png transparency. It basically just looks like a flat colored boxy button with a border.
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by imathis 17y ago
Fascinating, thanks for sharing your experience. Pixel perfection certainly is a tempting goal, but I've spent too much time and other people's money trying to preserve the illusion that IE is anything less than garbage. I've had enough. No
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by imathis 17y ago
Exactly. Whom among us hasn't written down every useful thought we've ever had and blogged it? If all of our friends blogged, would we even want hang out?