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Setting up Jekyll - related posts and series

By default, the related_posts feature of Jekyll returns the newest 10 posts rather than related posts. This is to speed up generation of the site by not using it’s Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) capabilities implemented by classifier-reborn since that takes a while to run.

Setting up Jekyll - prettier paging and categories

Following up from the previous post on setting up Jekyll, we take out our tools and customize it some more. When reading any of my posts you should realise I’m after utility rather than beauty. That said, we’ll try to improve the appearance to an acceptable level as we go along. Prettier paging The next/previous paging is functional, …

Converting HTML blog posts to Markdown

I am reviving some projects - this blog as well as some open source work. They desperately need some TLC… Since this blog has travelled through different hosting options and technologies I still had some legacy posts formatted in HTML. I’ve taken the plunge to refactor them into much cleaner Markdown syntax. This turned out easier than …

Setting up Jekyll - the basics

Introduction Since Octopress has been deprecated for pure use of Jekyll, I switched this blog to use Jekyll. See this post as a walkthrough on creating a functional blog via Jekyll (part 1). This is yet another collation of snippets I have found useful, as a reference for my future self - and perhaps others.

Still alive

I’m still alive. And so will this blog be once again. It’s an interesting feeling to notice that your last post dates back to 4 years (4 YEARS!) ago. I’ve done the migration from Octopress to vanilla Jekyll now and in the spirit of doing the smallest thing possible, this is the MVP. Since my last post I have made the leap to …

Now blogging on Octopress

A week ago, I wrote : Sigh, I can’t seem to make up my mind about the platform to host my blog on. You can find my new blog over at <www.riaanhanekom.com>. Will post the details soon over there. This blog will self-destruct in a week or so. My first blog was at Blogger , back when Google just bought it. What pained me then, was the lack …

Blog moved

In preparation for my recurring new years resolution of updating this blog, I’ve followed the advice of Simon Cropp and moved my old blog to Posterous .

LiveWriter Plugins

Installed a bunch of them - ahh, it’s good to have them back. 13 September 2008 - Update : We’ve found the little girl in the picture’s first tooth! Photo by Neven Krcmarek on Unsplash