Me

Ben Vandgrift (@bvandgrift) is a software developer, game enthusiast, avid reader, cook, and curmudgeon living in Charlotte, NC.

About This Site

Mynock is a nanoc3 blog starter kit, branched from mgutz’s lovely nanoc3_blog, mostly with routing preferences that I enjoy. Feel free to fork and abuse.

The blog compiles into HTML, and copies static assets into the proper places. It produces a fast, light, and clean site hostable anywhere you have access to the filesystem.

Source is available from the mynock github repository.

Features:

• Minimalist CSS site, with sass support baked in
• Uses file extension to determine filter (.erb, .md, .haml, .sass)
• Configurable 0..n full articles on the front page
• Configurable 0..n excerpted links on the front page
• Tagging / generation of tag pages
• Generates tags list
• Generates archives list
• Generates navigation links to articles by date
• DISQUS commenting integration (optional)
• RSS/atom feed
• Generates sitemap.xml for SEO

Thanks

My thanks to Mario L Gutierrez for a nice starting place, Jon Distad for sanity checking, and Denis Defreyne, author of nanoc.