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I'm the maintainer of jekyll-bootstrap, nice to see this on HN! My main focus is super-fast publishing (GitHub Pages) and technical blogging. I really could us

by apsurd 15y ago

I'm the maintainer of jekyll-bootstrap, nice to see this on HN! My main focus is super-fast publishing (GitHub Pages) and technical blogging. I really could use some honest user feedback from technically-minded bloggers. What is most important to you? What features do you need to see? I'm prioritizing API development. Simple and standardized api's put Open Source projects on the map imo. On that note I'm working on a theme and javascript api for JB. Theme api allows designers to (easily) contribute great themes. This includes syntax highlighting (which is not themed yet =[) Javascript plugin API will allow your blog to stretch its wings - arbitrary 3rd-party integration, optimizing content form (tabs, accordion, slides, etc) and.. I want to rollout a jekyll-blog network where users can log in, "follow", "like" etc just how tumblr, posterous, wordpress all have community integration. Please let me know what is important to you. Thanks for your support!

Heliosmaster 15y ago
-1 for "follow", "like" and all the other social things. Imho the reason why people are not using tumblr/posterous/wordpress/etc. is not only on the publishing aspect: I guess (at least that's what on MY mind) that people want just simple things, for both writing and reading, without all that unnecessary "baggage" that other services provide. We have a bajillions of places when can we like stuff, do we have so many places where can we read a post in peace? ;)
CJefferson 15y ago
My main interest for 'quick technical blogging' would be nice and easy code formatting (C++ in my case), which seems to be irritatingly difficult in my blogging systems. Not sure if that is the kind of comment you are interested in. How would I put some C++ code into a blog post?
- apsurd 15y ago
  Sadly I'm not familiar with C++ but yes this is definitely the feedback I'm looking for. I would imagine kickass, painless, and beautiful syntax highlighting would go a long long way for technical blogs. This is something I want to (but haven't yet) dedicate a lot of focus on assuming it would motivate more programmers to publish content.
- Argorak 15y ago
  Vanilla jekyll can highlight C++ using Coderay. You can try the quality of the code highlighter here: http://coderay.rubychan.de/rays http://coderay.rubychan.de/rays
keeptrying 15y ago
I would love a rails plugin which gave me jekyll hosted blog for my rails app on heroku. I would even pay $20 for this.
- apsurd 15y ago
  What specifically did you need/want integrated with Rails? Do you mean you have a blog in rails and you want a way to automatically port it to Jekyll? Can you expand on your specific use case?
  - keeptrying 15y ago
    So I build an application in rails on herokou. All applications require a blog for SEO purposes. Heroku doesnt allow you to reroute or do anything at all to the webserver so your stuck using rails as your blog. The best case scenario is to have a static blog so it serves fast and holds up the dyno for the least. Plus varnish can handle the load as its static. So essentially I want a jekyll blog which commits to my source code and lives in say in public/ . Use case: I write my blog post. Check it in and do a push to heroku. Voila its on my site. I think all this is possible but you have to manually put in all the github hooks etc. Everyone who uses heorku for hosting their crappy apps and even their good apps would use this...
- bmcgavin 15y ago
  Not a rails plugin, but earlier this month this was posted to HN : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428369 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428369
  - keeptrying 15y ago
    Thats awesome thanks.
newb1 15y ago
Really excited about it, but am stuck: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9133578/error-repository-not-found-message-given-when-following-the-instructions-for-je http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9133578/error-repository-...

by apsurd 15y ago

Heliosmaster 15y ago

-1 for "follow", "like" and all the other social things. Imho the reason why people are not using tumblr/posterous/wordpress/etc. is not only on the publishing aspect: I guess (at least that's what on MY mind) that people want just simple things, for both writing and reading, without all that unnecessary "baggage" that other services provide. We have a bajillions of places when can we like stuff, do we have so many places where can we read a post in peace? ;)

CJefferson 15y ago

My main interest for 'quick technical blogging' would be nice and easy code formatting (C++ in my case), which seems to be irritatingly difficult in my blogging systems. Not sure if that is the kind of comment you are interested in. How would I put some C++ code into a blog post?

apsurd 15y ago
Sadly I'm not familiar with C++ but yes this is definitely the feedback I'm looking for. I would imagine kickass, painless, and beautiful syntax highlighting would go a long long way for technical blogs. This is something I want to (but haven't yet) dedicate a lot of focus on assuming it would motivate more programmers to publish content.
Argorak 15y ago
Vanilla jekyll can highlight C++ using Coderay. You can try the quality of the code highlighter here: http://coderay.rubychan.de/rays http://coderay.rubychan.de/rays

keeptrying 15y ago

I would love a rails plugin which gave me jekyll hosted blog for my rails app on heroku. I would even pay $20 for this.

apsurd 15y ago
What specifically did you need/want integrated with Rails? Do you mean you have a blog in rails and you want a way to automatically port it to Jekyll? Can you expand on your specific use case?
- keeptrying 15y ago
  So I build an application in rails on herokou. All applications require a blog for SEO purposes. Heroku doesnt allow you to reroute or do anything at all to the webserver so your stuck using rails as your blog. The best case scenario is to have a static blog so it serves fast and holds up the dyno for the least. Plus varnish can handle the load as its static. So essentially I want a jekyll blog which commits to my source code and lives in say in public/ . Use case: I write my blog post. Check it in and do a push to heroku. Voila its on my site. I think all this is possible but you have to manually put in all the github hooks etc. Everyone who uses heorku for hosting their crappy apps and even their good apps would use this...
bmcgavin 15y ago
Not a rails plugin, but earlier this month this was posted to HN : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428369 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428369
- keeptrying 15y ago
  Thats awesome thanks.

newb1 15y ago

Really excited about it, but am stuck: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9133578/error-repository-not-found-message-given-when-following-the-instructions-for-je http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9133578/error-repository-...