Blogging Like a Hacker (2008)

Post by tylery » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 4:58 PM UTC

greggman2 wrote: post #27

Eiriksmal wrote: post #3

Fascinating. For those who click to read the comments before the actual article, this is Mr. Preston-Werner's introduction of Jekyll, the Ruby static site generator, to the world. He lays out his reasons for creating the tech: >>>First, all my writing would be stored in a Git repository. This would ensure that I could try out different ideas and explore a variety of posts all from the comfort of my preferred editor a…

I switched to a static site gen and a git repo. I lost the ability to preview. Sure, if I'm at home I can run the build script, launch a simple server, navigate to the page on localhost but it's a long way from say wordpress (previous solution) where it was a much nicer experience to preview. Adding images into a post was also nicer. Just drag and drop instead of copy into folder, check into git, manaully type urls l…

If you use Netlify to deploy your static site, they have a nice Preview feature you can use.

Post by anarchyrucks » Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 7:58 AM UTC

mettamage wrote: post #28

bhaak wrote: post #2

I often remark that IT in general is a history-less space. I wonder if Tom would have developed Jekyll if he knew about Blosxom? Blosxom had its last release in the same month when Jekyll had its first. The blog post seems to imply that he came up with the idea and code for Jekyll all by himself. But also as he's a Ruby guy, it's likely he would have ported over the code and concepts to his own project.

Your comment gave me an idea. I'm not going to do it alone (I think), but someone should do it. Start a podcast/educational website on the history of tech. For anyone who wants to do it together and see if it's a fun project to pursue, email me :) (in my profile) Or are there already podcasts on it? If so, I haven't seen it appear on HN.

Two bit history does something similar.

https://twobithistory.org

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