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Using GitHub as a first-level defense against spammers is genius. I'd like to see it used for other things too (registration for hackathons, etc.) Any alternat
by jonhmchan 13y ago
Using GitHub as a first-level defense against spammers is genius. I'd like to see it used for other things too (registration for hackathons, etc.)
Any alternatives considered?
- crabasa 13y agoI did consider Calagator[1], which is both the defacto tech calendar in Portland and an open source project[2]. However, I realized that using this tool was going to require me to a) install it b) host it and c) moderate it. I had recently started using Github Pages + Jekyll to host my own blog, so it was really just a question of whether I could re-purpose Jekyll to generate a useful event calendar. Thanks to custom YAML metadata[3] and a JSON feed, the answer was yes. [1]: http://calagator.org http://calagator.org [2]: https://github.com/calagator/calagator https://github.com/calagator/calagator [3]: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/YAML-Front-Matter https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/YAML-Front-Matter