AngularJS Posting Interface for your GitHub Jekyll Site

After getting a decent way to create a file on GitHub just using a POST from a form as Brock Boland spoke about with his Jekyll posting interface, I thought I would take this one step further and figure out a way to use the GitHub API to create that file instead of taking you to GitHub’s new file interface. This was much easier than I expected.

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Jekyll Juice

This blog is now powered by Jekyll alone (was on Octopress). Brock Boland recently wrote about moving his blog to only Jekyll and I’d been wanting to do this for a while as well so I don’t need to worry about generators and such at all. Only took about an hour. Generate a jekyll site with jekyll new [site] and then just move your posts over, tweak your settings and theme and you’re done.

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Best man's speech

On Sept 27th 2010 I was married to the love of my life, Jenney Marie Richards. My best man David Burns, wrote a speech that was both moving and heartfelt. I record that now for all eternity (assuming the internet is immortal and all):

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Replicate and share

As a child I learned how to speak. The sounds I heard my parents produce helped to form coherent thought patterns in which to relate with the world around me. No, yes; good, bad; dog, cat; hot, cold; all sounds that came to mean something to a normal human being. I replicated their sound and shared.

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