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Re: GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

Animats wrote: post #27

OK, a standard dialect of Markdown. In the beginning was RUNOFF from MIT, which originally had about the power of Markdown. More features were added, and it became nroff, then troff, the ditrofff, and macro systems were added on top of it. It became too hard to use for casual work. Then there was TeX, which was a saner approach to what troff did. Macro systems were added on top of it. It became too hard to use for ca…

The nice thing about Markdown that doesn't apply to those other formats is that it's designed to read naturally in plaintext. That constraint should (in theory) prevent it from transforming into something prohibitively complicated to write in.

Re: GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

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Post by 0942v8653 »

Relys wrote: post #8

Absolutely love Jekyll and GitHub Pages for hosting project documentation and personal websites. Just wish GH Pages would support SSL. :(

Well, technically, it does. The unfortunate thing is that it also supports non-encrypted HTTP. In my opinion, gh-pages is one of those places where it's not a big deal; there isn't anything too private being uploaded, and all the pages that can be served are available publicly on Github.

Edit: oh, I didn't know that it's not supported for custom domains. That is a bit disappointing.

Re: GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

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Post by wanda »

kevinSuttle wrote: post #19

Figures I just switched my site to Ghost.

Ghost is a great platform, very easy to extend and you can host it for free on Openshift[1].

You can use ghost-render[2] to publish the blog as a static site if you want to stick your blog on Github Pages.

[1]: https://github.com/openshift-quickstart/openshift-ghost-quic...

[2]: https://github.com/mixu/ghost-render

Re: GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

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Post by [deleted] »

0942v8653 wrote: post #42
Relys wrote: post #8

Absolutely love Jekyll and GitHub Pages for hosting project documentation and personal websites. Just wish GH Pages would support SSL. :(

Well, technically, it does. The unfortunate thing is that it also supports non-encrypted HTTP. In my opinion, gh-pages is one of those places where it's not a big deal; there isn't anything too private being uploaded, and all the pages that can be served are available publicly on Github. Edit: oh, I didn't know that it's not supported for custom domains. That is a bit disappointing.

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Re: GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

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Post by inthewoods »

kjaer wrote: post #30
programminggeek wrote: post #20

Jekyll 3 is pretty great. If you need any help getting your site hosted, I'm working on a hosting setup that is way easier than S3 or any other option out there. http://www.statichosting.co We are in private beta and are looking for people to try it out and give us feedback. We think it's great and are looking for early adopters who want an awesome static hosting experience.

Pretty cool! If you can set up some sort of integration with Travis (which itself integrates nicely with GitHub), and you set up SSL, HTTP/2, good caching policies etc., you're golden.

Take a look at https://www.netlify.com

Re: GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

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Post by hk__2 »

geraldbauer wrote: post #6
hk__2 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are you using a README to display this list instead of GitHub Pages?

It's a tradition. That's how awesome lists work. See the mother of all awesome lists -> https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome for more examples. The idea is to keep it as simple as possible e.g. just a single README page. That's all.

Yeah I’m aware of that, but why? You can use GitHub pages with one markdown file; it would be the same contribution workflow but with a nicer end-user interface IMO.

Re: GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

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Post by tomjakubowski »

tunesmith wrote: post #39
Relys wrote: post #8

Absolutely love Jekyll and GitHub Pages for hosting project documentation and personal websites. Just wish GH Pages would support SSL. :(

I don't know much about GitHub Pages, but if it's only for static pages, then why do you need SSL? I mean if you're not going to be sending sensitive dynamic data. Is it so people can't snoop the contents of your pages over request/response on a network?

You might be serving something like a PGP public key, which you'd like viewers to be assured hasn't been tampered with in transit.

Re: GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

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Post by bdcravens »

tunesmith wrote: post #39
Relys wrote: post #8

Absolutely love Jekyll and GitHub Pages for hosting project documentation and personal websites. Just wish GH Pages would support SSL. :(

I don't know much about GitHub Pages, but if it's only for static pages, then why do you need SSL? I mean if you're not going to be sending sensitive dynamic data. Is it so people can't snoop the contents of your pages over request/response on a network?

Google uses https as a signal of quality, and Chrome will start shaming sites that aren't:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-will-soon-shame-all-...

Re: GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

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Post by xena »

programminggeek wrote: post #22
Relys wrote: post #8

Absolutely love Jekyll and GitHub Pages for hosting project documentation and personal websites. Just wish GH Pages would support SSL. :(

I'm working on a static hosting service. We are working on SSL and making that easy. Would you be interested in trying the beta? http://www.statichosting.co

Your site doesn't accept connections over SSL.
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