Tag: octopress
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Moving Away from Octopress
UPDATE: This is an archived post from my previous site running Octopress. You’ll notice that I did indeed move platforms. -Tai One of the interesting things I’ve noticed in my virtuous cycle of blogging and writing: I get into a definite funk. When I moved to Octopress (from Drupal), I had hoped that moving towards using…
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Finally back up
Over the past 6 months, I made a few error in judgements that have affected my ability to author stuff on the blog. I started worrying about migrating content from my blog Stupid. Really stupid. I have most of the posts available as staic HTML (it was a Movable Type powered blog). In the end,…
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Going public
One of the cool things with Octopress is that it has a built-in integration with GitHub. I’m not too familiar with distributed versioning systems, but this is cool. I used to do this with my other sites HTML templates using Subversion (I had a remote Gentoo server at one point). GitHub has a free account…
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First post in a long time
I spent about 30 minutes talking to my wife about how excited I was to do this. It’s been a long time since I’ve been excited to write online again. When I first started writing online, it was 2002. I was between jobs (what was the beginning of a 6-month hiatus from the employed world)…
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The migration begins
How do I migrate posts dating back from 2002? Probably best to write a script, I guess. Most of these posts exist in a local textpattern install that I have working in VM, so I guess, the easiest thing for me would be to create an article template that mirrored the Octopress text format. It…