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by Frank Lin
First taste of Heroku, h5ai for file indexer
I've known Heroku for a long time, but never have a try to build with it. This time, I found a beautiful file indexer h5ai that requires PHP 5.5+, and Heroku is a perfect platform to build and host it.
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by Frank Lin
Self-host comments in Jekyll, powered by Firebase real-time database
It's convenient to set up a comment system in Jekyll site with external social comment systems like Disqus or Duoshuo (多说). However, as you all know, Disqus was blocked in China and Duoshuo is going to shutdown. It's the time to rethink about the comment system (although I didn't get too many comments →_→), simple and controllable. And it becomes true with Firebase database.
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by Frank Lin
Syntax highlight with Rouge in Jekyll
By default, Jekyll 3 and above comes with Rouge, a pure Ruby syntax highlighter which supports 98 languages. Since Rouge themes are compatible with Pygments’s stylesheets, it’s nice for us to choose the favourable styles.
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by Frank Lin
Save script bookmarklets in Microsoft Edge
Bookmarklets are shortcuts that actually run javascript snippets, usually to add a page to a service. But saving a bookmarklet was trickier than I thought in Edge.
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by Frank Lin
Figure caption for images on Jekyll sites - single line with Markdown
Markdown makes writing blog posts simple and fast, but sometimes that simplicity comes with limitations. Recently on updating this blog theme, I'm intend to include images in the post with captions, and there wasn’t a straightforward way using Markdown. While adding an img tag is very easy with Markdown, I would have to do some fiddling to inset the caption.
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by Frank Lin
Using Liquid in Jekyll - live with demos
Liquid is a simple templating language Jekyll uses to process pages on your site. With Liquid you can output an modify variables, have logic statements inside your pages and loop over content.
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by Frank Lin
Related posts in Jekyll
Jekyll features a simple “Related posts” variable per post page with site.related_posts, which contains the 10 most recent posts in default. However, it only works perfectly when lsi (latent semantic indexing) option was enabled. The Liquid tags might be helpful here.
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