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• YAML front matter defaults, allowing for automatic assignment of layout and other settings to posts or pages
• Stability of collections, still in development and subject to change
• Jekyll's static site generator capabilities and their benefits, including improved page load times and reduced scalability issues
• Comparison to WordPress and other dynamic sites, highlighting Jekyll's strengths in version control and scalability
• Discussion of multi-authoring and publishing tools, with a mention of the Prose platform
• Prose is a tool for managing Jekyll sites, intended to provide a user-friendly interface for making changes
• Prose aims to emulate the process of making changes in WordPress, using version control and commiting changes
• Development on Prose has slowed down due to lack of usage by the development team
• Prose was originally created by the development seed team, who used it to manage healthcare.gov
• The team is not actively developing Prose due to lack of immediate pressure or demand
• The tool is written in JavaScript and runs on GitHub Pages, with the exception of the gatekeeper app
• Prose could potentially be revived or continued by a developer interested in using it
• The tool's functionality, including previews and pull requests, could be improved to make it more user-friendly
• Prose is trying to simplify the GitHub interface and make it more accessible for non-developers.
• Getting involved with Jekyll and Octopress, including emailing Tom, CEO of GitHub, and reaching out to Brandon Mathis
• The key to finding and adding maintainers is to see their interest and willingness to devote time to the project
• Persistence and making the initial step are necessary to get involved in open source software
• Breaking down the barrier to entry for contributing to open source software
• Steps for newcomers to contribute to open source projects, including finding an issue to fix, submitting a pull request, and writing comments to indicate interest and willingness to help
• Importance of finding a project that interests you and starting with a relatively simple issue or fix
• The host thanks Top Towel, a sponsor of the show, and introduces Daniel Lauzon, an elite engineer who has applied to Top Towel and was accepted
• Daniel's experience with Top Towel allows him to have control over the projects and technologies he works on, and he earns 100% of his income as a Top Towel engineer
• The host encourages listeners who are freelancing or interested in freelancing to check out Top Towel
• The host discusses Daniel's involvement with Jekyll and Octopress, and how Octopress is a framework around Jekyll that makes it easier to work with
• Octopress handles tasks such as new posts, new pages, deployments, previewing, and generation, and has a task called "rake isolate" that can regenerate only the changed files, improving efficiency
• Octopress is particularly useful for large sites with many posts, and can save time and effort by only regenerating the necessary files.
• Jekyll and Octopress workflow and integration
• Octopress framework and its relationship with Jekyll
• Potential merger or shared functionality between Jekyll and Octopress
• Octopress Inc and its extension of Jekyll functionality
• Static site generation and the separation of theme and content
• Future of Jekyll, including alignment with GitHub Pages and API
• Jekyll 2.0 and the road to Jekyll 3.0
• Need for manpower and contributions to advance Jekyll's features and functionality
• Jekyll development and maintenance
• Contribution to the Jekyll community and ecosystem
• Involvement in the Jekyll IRC channel and GitHub repository
• Code and idea contribution to Jekyll
• The role of GitHub in the Jekyll development process
• Balancing Jekyll's growth with its simplicity and ease of use
• Burnout and community attitudes in open-source projects
• Jekyll's future and potential collaboration with GitHub's Pages platform
• The speaker discusses the simplicity of using [4158.34 --> 4165.26] in Jekyll development
• The speaker mentions the support of others, including random boxes of goodies and feature requests
• The speaker names several programming heroes who they have looked up to, including Dan Lavoi, Nick Rao, and Leaf Walsh
• The speaker discusses the importance of role models and mentors in their development as a programmer
• The speaker thanks the show's hosts and mentions the project's future and potential partnerships
[0.00 --> 14.78] welcome back everyone this is the changelog where a member supported blog podcast and weekly email
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[21.48 --> 28.24] at five by five dot tv slash changelog and you're listening to episode 125 i talk with parker more
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[87.36 --> 94.94] we're joined today by parker moore he's uh parker you're a developer you're doing all sorts of cool
[94.94 --> 99.78] stuff you're you're you're young you're still going to school you're interning at github you have a
[99.78 --> 105.22] pretty fantastic story so um you know i wanted to have you on the show because i've been a fan of what
[105.22 --> 108.88] you've been doing with jekyll so i wanted to kind of hear from the horse's mouth how to speak
[108.88 --> 114.10] about who this man is and what y'all are what you're doing um in open source and what you're
[114.10 --> 119.56] doing for uh for coding and stuff like that so let's uh let's kick off the show by i guess the
[119.56 --> 124.82] easiest way possible maybe to give the listeners a peek into who you are so when you introduce yourself
[124.82 --> 129.90] to a crowd of people how do you do it um well i guess i've never had to introduce myself to a crowd
[129.90 --> 137.04] of people of a technology or high technology background um but i'll give it a shot um as you said
[137.04 --> 144.90] i'm parker um i'm a student at cornell university um about to graduate um in august with a degree in
[144.90 --> 149.60] information science um i've been programming for a really long time since maybe seventh grade
[149.60 --> 159.30] and have loved it i found ruby um in maybe 2011 and have loved it ever since it's a fantastic language
[159.30 --> 168.18] i have a lot of fun um and in 2012 i found myself um conversing with tom preston warner
[168.18 --> 176.22] and um i asked to take over the project jekyll and the rest is sort of history yeah that's that is a
[176.22 --> 181.22] that's i want to tell that history as best we can so let's let's maybe rewind a little further back
[181.22 --> 186.68] in the day then so you said you've been programming for a while um how early seventh grade is when i started
[186.68 --> 191.28] um my math teacher in seventh grade uh with whom i spent a lot of time because that was the year
[191.28 --> 196.02] that i wanted to get ahead in math and so i was taking two math courses simultaneously um i forget
[196.02 --> 201.52] what they were but like geometry probably you know uh probability that sort of thing um and then also
[201.52 --> 207.86] moving up to sort of more of the pre-calculus stuff so um i was spending a lot of time with this
[207.86 --> 215.76] this math teacher um and he was a huge math geek and he had a bunch of apple 2e's in his in his
[215.76 --> 222.62] room as well as a couple old macintoshes um and this was right before the mac g5 came out so this
[222.62 --> 231.42] is you know when is this actually 2003 4 i'm guessing based on math around 2000 well i'm 21 now
[231.42 --> 235.64] and i'm just graduating from college and i remember that september 11th attacks were in fourth grade
[235.64 --> 242.52] so it was three years after that okay so i think it was um i think it was closer to 2004
[242.52 --> 249.60] um but anyway year is not not that important um so i learned how to program in basic um with a group
[249.60 --> 254.36] of friends we would take our lunch period and we would go to go to this teacher's room mr martin
[254.36 --> 261.04] his room and we would all leap onto a apple to eat and we would program for the entire period if we
[261.04 --> 266.60] weren't watching monty python or whatever um so we had a grand old time and i learned a lot of the
[266.60 --> 273.36] basics of of procedural programming um in basic if you don't know you have to give every line that
[273.36 --> 278.62] you you type of code has its own line number so you type one and that's your first line and then you
[278.62 --> 284.86] you know print high or something and then 10 uh or two you could say two if you wanted to um
[284.86 --> 292.12] you know get variable or something so um i learned a lot about how to think like a computer and sort of
[292.12 --> 298.88] the basis of my computer computer science knowledge comes from that that time in lunch in lunch period
[298.88 --> 305.76] um and i didn't actually start any formal computer science um lessons or any formal computer science
[305.76 --> 314.66] until 10th grade when i took um cs1 and 2 at my high school um and we learned java with carol the robot
[314.66 --> 324.16] um whom we would program to to go around a grid and collect like buttons or something um so it it was
[324.16 --> 329.80] an amazing experience um and i ended up doing um advanced placement computer science my senior year
[329.80 --> 336.02] in high school um and i sort of diverged a little bit in college i went to mcgill university for my first