Last week, Jeremy Keith posted about syndicating his content to Medium using their new API. Before they added the API, there was no way to automatically publishing to Medium from your own blog. And doing it manually was quite tedious.
\nJeremy posted in detail about how to set it all up and provided the PHP code heâs using to make it all work. As Iâm running a static site on Octopress, I ported it to Ruby as a Jekyll Generator. Iâve posted it to Github, so you can grab it there if you so desire.
\n","url":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/crossposting-to-medium-from-jekyll/","tags":["Jekyll","Octopress","blogging","indie web"],"date_published":"2015-10-26T19:27:00Z"},{"id":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/the-linkblog/","title":"âđ» The Linkblog","summary":"Iâm doing a little housekeeping and cleaning up the links a bit. The linkblog now has its own permenant home.","content_html":"Since re-starting my blog Iâve been continuing to tinker with Octopress and Jekyll in an effort to customize things a bit more to my liking.
\nI recently began posting links (with commentary) in a bit of a link blog, but I wasnât really happy with having it mixed in with the rest of my Notebook posts. I finally took a few minutes to formally bust out the links into their own paginated section, so you can keep up with them independently. I also set up a three distinct Atom feeds to let you consume this siteâs content how you want to: Latest 20 posts and links, latest 20 posts, and Latest 20 links.
\nIâm hopeful this organization will prove as helpful to you as it is for my compartmentalization anxiety.
\n","url":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/the-linkblog/","tags":["blogging","web design","this site"],"date_published":"2015-01-14T14:34:34Z"},{"id":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/a-grand-experiment/","title":"âđ» A Grand Experiment","summary":"So, a mere three years after my old âlife blogâ stopped working, I decided to scrap it and start fresh.","content_html":"So, a mere three years after my old âlife blogâ stopped working, I decided to scrap it and start fresh.
\nIn my quest to learn something new (more on that in a forthcoming post), I decided to give Octopress a whirl. Weâll see how it goes, but the content entry has gone well so far and the Octopress community has been pretty responsive to my requests. I just need to get used to the workflow.
\nIn the spirit of openness, Iâve decided to host the new site on Github as a Github Page. This frees me up from worrying about hosting fees of course, but it also means this site can serve as an educational tool for those inclined to dig in to the work I do and want some introspection into the way I do it. You can view (and fork) the whole darn thing at your leisure.
\nFinally, Iâm designing and building this site in the open and, for posterity, taking screen shot of the progress. The screenshots will go up in time as an animated GIF, but those of you who wish will be able to follow along at home or work, seeing how I typically piece together a site, layer by layer, using progressive enhancement. So far itâs just the content, but thatâs what I preach: content first.
\nNow itâs time to get back to it. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
\n","url":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/a-grand-experiment/","tags":["blogging","web design","this site"],"date_published":"2014-07-08T00:46:48Z"},{"id":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/now-read-this-9/","title":"âđ» Now Read This IX","summary":"Apologies for not posting links last weekâŠbetween the holiday on Monday and spending all of Tuesday without power, I got a little behind. Here are some highlights from the last two weeks:","content_html":"Apologies for not posting links last weekâŠbetween the holiday on Monday and spending all of Tuesday without power, I got a little behind. Here are some highlights from the last two weeks:
\nLast week, Steve Jobs resigned and Twitter launched a resource for quickly building prototypes and apps. Hereâs the roundup of those and other links youâll want to check out:
\nIn this weekâs link round-up, we bring you the reasoning behind Typekitâs font-loading strategy, two new CSS grid systems, a fantastic mash-up of Peanuts with Jaws, and the story of a woman ejected from a Houston bar for tweeting something the General Manager didnât like. Happy reading!
\nabbr and span on mobileLast week the U.S. teetered on the brink of economic collapse, but there were lots of goodies to think about and share too. Hereâs a smattering of things to check out on the topics of design, development, and social commentary:
\nAwesome stuff last week from the worlds of typography, mobile, customer service, and design.
\nWe found some awesome links last week:
\nHot links last week:
\nI find a lot of cool links throughout the week and I usually bookmark them on some service, like Pinboard, but for some reason I never considered posting them to the blog. Iâm recitfying that as of today.
\nHere are last weekâs finds:
\n![CSS Border Image Generator](\"http://border-image.com/#%7B%22src%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2Fcss3-background%2Fborder.png%22%2C%22linkBorder%22%3Atrue%2C%22borderWidth%22%3A%5B0%2C0%2C0%2C0%5D%2C%22imageOffset%22%3A%5B27%2C27%2C27%2C27%5D%2C%22setRepat%22%3Afalse%2C%22repeat%22%3A%5B%22repeat%22%2C%22repeat%22%5D%2C%22scaleFactor%22%3A3%2C%22setRepeat%22%3Atrue%7D\"){kind=link}
pattern attribute.Just when you though all the good purchases were going to Yahoo!, Google ups the ante by picking up Measure Map, the wonderful blog stats analytics tool from my friends at Adaptive Path. Measure Map is what web analytics should be all aboutâit is so simple and so addictive, no wonder Google had to have it.
\n","url":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/google-measure-map/","tags":["business","blogging"],"date_published":"2006-02-14T17:57:44Z"},{"id":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/dif-is-dead-long-live-dif/","title":"âđ» DiF is dead. Long live DiF.","summary":"Just when I had gotten over the loss of Design In-Flight , the magazine relaunches as a web-only publication. From the history/about page :","content_html":"Just when I had gotten over the loss of Design In-Flight, the magazine relaunches as a web-only publication. From the history/about page:
\n\n\nWith the reduction in production efforts with this format, and a slightly less rigid publishing schedule, DiF is sure not to disappear again.
\n
I certainly hope so. Welcome back!
\n","url":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/dif-is-dead-long-live-dif/","tags":["blogging","personal"],"date_published":"2005-08-22T14:55:21Z"},{"id":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/rip-dif/","title":"âđ» RIP DiF","summary":"Sad news, friends⊠Design In-Flight is closing shop. This very young, yet stellar PDF -based magazine was off to a fantastic start, but, as Andy put it , changes in his personal and professional life have conspired to make DiF âsâŠ","content_html":"Sad news, friends⊠Design In-Flight is closing shop. This very young, yet stellar PDF-based magazine was off to a fantastic start, but, as Andy put it, changes in his personal and professional life have conspired to make DiFâs continued publication an impossibility.
\nThough I am disappointed at losing such a great publication, I understand where Andyâs coming from. Having spent six years of my life devoted to a magazine I started in college, I know how tough it can be. I put the fritz on hiatus in the summer of 2000 when I moved to Connecticut, hoping to restart it again as a solely web-based publication, but time has conspired to keep it only a homepage. Will I ever find the time to get it going again or is it only wishful thinking? Iâm not sure. I guess time will tell.
\nAndy, best of luck to you in your future endeavors.
\n","url":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/rip-dif/","tags":["blogging","personal"],"date_published":"2005-07-15T03:18:31Z"}]}