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Continuous Blogging

In my last post, I talked about moving from Blogger to the blog aware static site generator Pelican.

Using make to compile markdown files in to html with a python tool started giving me ideas. The blog's source was already in github and it made sense to move the compilation to an automated tool. Automate everything.

Using Pelican Static Site Generator

Hello! Welcome to the updated jessek.co.nz.

Blogger wasn't really working out. A wysiwyg editor is nice and all but code snippets looked awful and the template was over the top. I wanted something simpler for my blog and something new to try out.

The two options I considered were jekyll and Pelican.

Catching up on my readings

Sunday reading

It's a beautiful sunny day so I decided to catch up on all those open browser tabs that I've been meaning to read. Here are the links and a few comments on what I read:

Finding a Path - Katrina Clokie

Nice short piece on alternatives to ...

Riding the bleeding edge

It has been quite some time since I tried hacking around with Linux. Which also means it has been a long time of my HTPC working just fine.

The HTPC is an old Core 2 Duo in an Antec case running Ubuntu 13.10. I've tried XBMC and Myth ...