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by prezjordan 4895 days ago
Thanks hypem team for making my blog - ilictronix - such a rewarding time for me. Seeing tracks I posted climb their way to the top became some of the most memorable moments for me (I still mention this sometimes when I'm interviewing for internships!)

So big thanks, you guys are the reason I put so much work into the /new/ ilictronix, http://ilictronix.heroku.com
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cdjarrell 4895 days ago
I used to have ilictronix on my feed but it disappeared a while ago, moving the blog to heroku makes sense as to why. Will find and re-follow
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fascinated 4895 days ago
Why did you choose to build from scratch vs wordpress/squarespace/etc? This is neat
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prezjordan 4895 days ago
We originally ran on blogger (still do!) but it really didn't have what I wanted. College started, and I really couldn't prioritize "fixing up" the site on blogger, as it was just so convoluted.

Instead, I decided to take a stab building a custom solution in rails. Had a blast doing it, and I learned a ton. Still very much a work-in-progress, but I take great pride in building the very features I've wanted for such a long time. Now, I could tailor these solutions in PHP for wordpress or something, but it's not my expertise.

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marblar 4895 days ago
No RSS feed? That's a shame.
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prezjordan 4895 days ago
It's on the backburner, but I've never built/integrated rss into an application before. Maybe something to do this weekend if it's simple enough.

We're open-source: https://github.com/prezjordan/ilictronix

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fascinated 4895 days ago
I guess people can get RSS from the feed Hype Machine generates, if they really want it: http://hypem.com/feed/blog/10471/1/feed.xml
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