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Further Jekyll notes

• jekyll,
• metablogging,
• github

TL;DR: This is an in-progress entry, where I plan to collect some notes on how I've set up and am using Jekyll. I may call it "done" at some random point and publish it. I may even subsequently update it from time to time, after that.

• To speed up the authoring / previewing cycle on my laptop, I move all but this years' posts into a _posts_archived folder and don't commit the change.

  • Kind of a pain; feels like I'm Doing It Wrong.

• Github Pages seems interesting, but I don't think it's right for me.

  • My plugins don't run, so my tag pages aren't created.
    • davedash has a different approach for this, though.
  • I can't get the permalinks just the way I like them
  • I'd have to set a CNAME in my DNS to point at a subdomain (ie. blog.decafbad.com), because I don't want to delegate my entire root domain over to GitHub.
  • I would 100% totally use GitHub Pages for another project that I'm starting from scratch, though.

• Since related posts via LSI is such a bear, I may try doing something with tags. That is:

  • take all the tags from a post;
  • find the 5 latest posts for each tag;
  • display the unique set of posts

• I want my permalinks to look like /2011/06/08/slug

  • Not /2011/06/08/slug/ or /2011/06/08/slug.html
  • Look, ma, no trailing slash!
  • This is the way I've had my URLs for years, and I want to maintain my URLspace.
  • And I also don't want every URL missing a trailing slash to get bounced with a 301 Moved Permanently to the equivalent with a trailing slash. That's bogus.
  • So, I'm using the pretty permalinks setting, and I have this in my nginx config:
    • if (-f $request_filename/index.html) { rewrite ^(.+)$ $1/index.html last; }