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Jekyll-Bootstrap

The quickest way to start and publish your Jekyll powered blog. 100% compatible with GitHub pages

Usage

• gem install jekyll
• gem install indextank nokogiri
• It should now be indexing when you build or run a server.

Version

0.2.13 - stable and versioned using semantic versioning.

Log

1. 2012-11-26: ignored the posterous posts from tags.html and JB/tags_list using {{unless tag[0] == 'posterous }}. There must be a better way to do it
2. 2013-01-03: added post.tldr to the front matter. So now if you specify tldr, it will appear at the bottom of the post. Will add a page with only tldrs soon hopefully.
3. 2013-01-21: added search using indextank-jquery and jekyll_indextank. Search is accessed through search.html now, links to google's hosted libraries are added to default.html in layouts/default.html. Next step: switch to a search box on the navigation bar.
4. 2013-01-29: added {% unless post.nosocial %} to the atom.xml page
5. 2013-02-06: added a tldr.html page which is quite nice.
6. 2013-05-08: fixed the search problem by adding a "blog".concat(item.url || item.link)
7. 2012-05-12: changed from pagination to landing page. Switched color scheme, successfully installed theme dinky and played around with it.
8. 2013-11-12: fixed search problem by removing the "blog" concat thing
9. 2013-12-28: concat still not fied. need to check some syntax. Also added Gemfile. because indextank hasn't been updated in so long, have to stop yajl-ruby at 1.1.0

TODO

1. switch to disqus for commenting. DONE
2. get top posts section
3. fix search, url doesn't work right DONE
4. allow organic presentation of blog posts, pinterest wall style?
5. related posts feature : https://github.com/LawrenceWoodman/related_posts-jekyll_plugin
6. make search more modular. move referneces only to search.html. requires fixing relative paths.

relevancy graph

1. get top 50-100 common words for each post
2. compare with other posts, make score between each pair the # of overlaps in common words
3. use chord diagram in d3.js

Blog post ideas

• the importance of interests
• the big 21, the birth of a legend
• the importance of positioning, and brave new world conditioning you to like what you do
• technology keeps moving on