My Blog

My blog.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/ashfurrow/blog.git 
cd blog
bundle install
rake

Then navigate to http://0.0.0.0:4567.

License

This work by Ash Furrow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Code I've written is licensed under MIT. Other components such as Bootstrap or the original blog theme have their own licenses.

Thanks

Thanks to the following people and projects:

• Orta Therox
• Katarina Batina
• Tom Creighton
• Middleman
• Clean Blog Theme
• middleman-gh-pages
• middleman-syntax
• middleman-inliner
• middleman-search
• loadCSS
• Font Awesome
• This colour
• This colour scheme
• Tutorial on static site search
• s3cmd
• vertical timeline jquery thingy
• @CloudyConway
• @CrookedCosmos
• IcoMoon
• CloudFlare

Photo Credits

All banner (full-width) images on the site are my own unless they link to an external source. I release my photos under the same license as this blog; the licenses of others' work vary.

I'd like to thank the following contributors.

Photo	Photographer
Main banner on Portfio.	Andrey Tochilin
"Software" banner on Portfolio.	Nick Simmons
Blogging image on Portfolio	Pete O'Shea
Recent blog post header backgrounds	Cloudy Conway (license) and Crooked Cosmos (CC0)

Server Setup

The site is served from S3, but through CloudFlare's CDN. The CDN caches everything on edges. These edges respect the caching header set on individual files. CloudFlare also sets a browser cache expiration of 30 minutes for all content (if a longer one is not specified, see below).

After deploying to the gh-pages branch, Cloudflare's cached content is invalidated.

Search

Search is done using lunrjs through the middleman-search plugin. In summary:

• Activation and configuration.
• Inclusion in all.js sprockets file.
• jQuery to connect the search box to lunrjs.
• Set up for search box and results.

Or check out this blog post.