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It's got nothing to do with HN, true, but "X blog engine for Hackers!!!11" grabs more eyeballs than "x blog engine"
Those damn marketers. Going after that HUGE hacker market again!!!
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The idea is that you can write your blog posts in your favorite coding editor instead of some web form. Some people find that easier - I certainly feel more at home in my editor.
Hell, if you were a real hacker, you would ssh to your server with vim or emacs, write the post in markdown or somesuch, and have your the blosxom-inspired clone you wrote yourself serve up the HTML. The real reason it's "for hackers" is for marketing. That and improving its chances for a front-page mention here.
I'm still a lot more impressed with the Python spinoff of Jekyll. It's called Hyde ( http://www.github.com/hyde/hyde ) and in my opinion a LOT more functional. I do wish that the documentation was a tiny bit more complete though. If I were going to make a new site based on Jekyll, I'd seriously consider Hyde instead.
I'm still a lot more impressed with the Python spinoff of Jekyll. It's called Hyde ( http://www.github.com/hyde/hyde ) and in my opinion a LOT more functional. I do wish that the documentation was a tiny bit more complete though. If I were going to make a new site based on Jekyll, I'd seriously consider Hyde instead.
I haven't tried Hyde, but I did switch to Blogofile ( http://blogofile.com ), another Python blog compiler, after trying Jekyll for a while.
Another thing I like is that Hyde will regen only the files needed to be regenerated. You can of course force a full regeneration of the site, but as your site grows (particularly blogs) the slower regeneration gets. This means that for simple things like adding a new post to the site can mean very quick regeneration.
Jekyll is certainly an inspiration, but it seems to be lagging behind in basic functionality of some other more interesting projects.
Good show.
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Promenade don't have a lovely orange octopus. :D
Sad but true. Octopi can make or break a project. http://thechangelog.com/post/1156862826/octobot-java-scala-r...
Octopress is based on Jekyll, however, it is not exactly clear to me what it adds to Jekyll. Is it the extra plugins? Is it Rake-driven management? Reading through the documentation quickly, it seems to add a lot of complexity compared to plain Jekyll. A comparison with Jekyll sans Octopress would be appreciated!
Octopress is now based on mojombo/jekyll has been completely rewritten from the ground up with a mountain of goodies.
- A semantic HTML5 template
- A Mobile friendly responsive (320 and up) layout (rotate, or resize your browser and see)
- Built in 3rd party support for Twitter, Google Plus One, Disqus Comments, Pinboard, Delicious, and Google Analytics
- An easy deployment strategy using Github pages or Rsync
- Built in support for POW and Rack servers
- Easy theming with Compass and Sass
- A Beautiful Solarized syntax highlighting