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Scott Patten
Personal blog · scottpatten.ca · on HN as spattenprogrammingmath
Scott Patten's personal blog at scottpatten.ca covers programming and math. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “No Excuses”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on Hugo, a static site generator. The only comment compares Hugo with Jekyll on speed for large sites and on avoiding Ruby, and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- No Excuses2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-23
- /2011/11/speeding-up-jekyll-generation.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-30
What Hacker News says?
I started looking into Hugo as a faster alternative to Jekyll. Two reasons why you'd disregard the fact that Hugo doesn't have the same support as Jekyll on GitHub pages: 1. You're dealing with thousands or more pages. Jekyll can be slow as heck passed a few hundreds of posts. Benchmarks [1] show that Hugo is way 2. You want to avoid dealing with Ruby. Honestly, every single time I have to install a Ruby app I end u…
Comment linking /2011/11/speeding-up-jekyll-generation.html
on “Hugo – Golang static site editor”Submitted How big is a googol? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI wrote this a while ago answering the exact same question: http://scottpatten.ca/2012/04/no-excuses.html
Comment linking /2012/04/no-excuses.html
on “Ask HN: What's the biggest risk you took in your career that paid off?”Submitted No Excuses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf your jekyll generation time is getting too large, you can limit the number of posts it generates like this: jekyll --limit_posts 3 It makes your site feel like new again :) I made this into a rake task which I blogged about here: http://scottpatten.ca/2011/11/speeding-up-jekyll-generation....
Comment linking /2011/11/speeding-up-jekyll-generation.html
on “Static site generators focus on the wrong thing”Submitted Getting up and running with Amber.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussion