Not knowing Middleman, I initially read the title (currently "Three Middleman Hacks We’re Using On This Site") as "Three Man-in-the-Middle hacks We're Using on This Site. Risky click!
Yes, me too. God, why does anyone pick a project name like that?
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#12I like your site design. Is it based on some other template? Is it open source? Tks!
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#13Not knowing Middleman, I initially read the title (currently "Three Middleman Hacks We’re Using On This Site") as "Three Man-in-the-Middle hacks We're Using on This Site. Risky click!
Yes, me too. God, why does anyone pick a project name like that?
It's really only confusing in this particular context, or to be precise, this particular sentence. Similarly, "Metropolitan Transportation Authority Invests Heavily in Rails" doesn't really make "Ruby on Rails" a particularly confusing project name.
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#14Everything is a 'hack' these days.
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#15Not knowing Middleman, I initially read the title (currently "Three Middleman Hacks We’re Using On This Site") as "Three Man-in-the-Middle hacks We're Using on This Site. Risky click!
Oh, I hadn't thought about the potential for confusion! Curious to know if that's how most people will parse it…
Another person thinking it was about MITM.
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#16Not knowing Middleman, I initially read the title (currently "Three Middleman Hacks We’re Using On This Site") as "Three Man-in-the-Middle hacks We're Using on This Site. Risky click!
Yes, me too. God, why does anyone pick a project name like that?
Well, to be fair, Middleman translates authoring files (sass, yaml, haml, etc) into ready-to-publish static assets. It can also be wired to liveroad so that it instantly updates what you see in the browser. In that workflow, the name really makes sense to me.
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#17Middleman is actually a really great piece of software. I've used it on multiple projects, and it's really great for what it does.
When all you have to do is hand a set of static files off to the client, Middleman allows you to use your favorite technologies like Sass, and comes combined with LiveReload (which is a nice time-saver).
It's also very Sinatra-esque, which I greatly approve of.