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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 h…

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…

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.

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.

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

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 can…

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 ma…

This is a post about what's badly wrong with Octopress 2.0 and how 3.0 is shaping up to be awesome.

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 c…

Check out the plugins for sharing code http://octopress.org/docs/blogging/code This was obsessively designed with hackers in mind.

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 sa…

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…

The default theme is almost identical to the Octopress home page. The only differences are the color scheme and header logo.

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…

The tagline has nothing to do with Hacker News, the fact that you would even say that is amusing.

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.

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 …

Finally caught it. Thanks.

SASS compiles to CSS.

Certainly. As far as IE6 support can go without compromising on simplicity.

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 corn…

IE6 doesn't easily support png transparency. It basically just looks like a flat colored boxy button with a border.

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 illusio…

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?