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How to make your github static page a blog

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I've been having a lot of trouble with gh-pages lately, builds taking 6 hours or more, and I eventually had to switch to just using a cheap VPS for some projects as a result.

gh-pages is a great feature but it was never meant to have the load it has today. I'm sure they'll eventually get it scaled, but right now I wouldn't recommend using gh-pages for anything time-sensitive (like if you want to announce a project on HN before the weekend).

Also there is a lot of downtimes.

If you want a free, git supported web hosting, I highly recommend using Heroku free plan instead.

Octopress (http://octopress.org) is a good static blogging framework built around Jekyll.

Instructions for deploying to GitHub: http://octopress.org/docs/deploying/github/

Looks good. I haven't heard of Speechhub but I look forward to your tutorial.

I recently added a blog to my static GitHub page using Jekyll (http://atomyard.com/blog/Blogging-with-Jekyll/). I found Jekyll to be very easy to use (and it's built right into GitHub) so I'd be interested to see how Speechhub compares.

Speechhub is much more simple then Jekyll. Actually, I last just few hours of two half-days on this project.

For sure Speechhub has lots of restrictions (no sintax highligh for codes, no comments but Disqus, no documentation ...), bu I intend to work on it ass soon as possible.

In the future you might want to consider Jekyll-Bootstrap (http://jekyllbootstrap.com/). It simplifies a lot of the early configuration and adds theming, commenting, tags on top of Jekyll.

Cool project, but how is this different than the jekyll powered static page generation that is already used by GitHub?

I'm not sure about how it is different from Jekyll, but I was just looking for something extremly simple. Perhaps the answer about why I wrote a new engine instead of using Jekyll is because I'm not a Ruby user, and I didn´t want to install gem on my computer.

I am pretty sure you don't need to install jekyll on your computer, github will compile the files for you when you push.

*Of course you wouldn't be able to test localy so it might not be a good idea.

I don't know whether the OP is the author of the blog post (I believe so), but I have a quick English suggestion for you. In your "About" section, you said:

> Hi, I'm Antonio, a computer engineer that likes also about Math and Rock Climb

A much more natural wording would be:

> Hi, I'm Antonio, a computer engineer who also likes talking about math and rock climbing

Keep up the good work!

Looks like there are several similar projects sprouting recently:

Ruhoh – another static blog generator. from the creators of Jekyll Bootstrap: http://ruhoh.com/

It has also a quite nice blog API proposal: http://ruhoh.com/universal-blog-api/

Nice, but if you're going to write more (and maybe longer) articles, you really have to improve your english skills.

Check out Quill – Jekyll in Node.js.

I've been contributing to the project and it is pretty slick so far. http://github.com/theycallmeswift/quill

Thanks, man! That is exactly what I need.

If you want something installed on your VPS this is not exactly what you need at all.

U got it wrong... I want to install the speechhub module.

My VPS is my primary dev machine.

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