Alexis Métaireau
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- Added the ability to display book cover for the category "Lectures" if ISBN cover is available. - Moved author's name into a small tag for better hierarchy and readability. - Implemented a feature to indicate link sizes depending on the number of articles associated with a given tag. - Implemented a mini footer element displaying an RSS feed icon. - Improved category display using description dictionary. - Added a new plugin "isbn_downloader" to fetch ISBN information when needed. - Included the count of articles for each category. - Implemented changes for better layout and readability of tags and categories. - Adjusted the layout of the webpage, improving the overall look of the page. - Included "requests" in the requirements.txt for supplanting dependencies required by the new plugin and/or features.
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Pelican, 9 months later
Back in October, I released pelican, a little piece of code I wrote to power this weblog. I had simple needs: I wanted to be able to use my text editor of choice (vim), a vcs (mercurial) and restructured text. I started to write a really simple blog engine in something like a hundred python lines and released it on github.
And people started contributing. I wasn't at all expecting to see people interested in such a little piece of code, but it turned out that they were. I refactored the code to make it evolve a bit more by two times and eventually, in 9 months, got 49 forks, 139 issues and 73 pull requests.
Which is clearly awesome.
I pulled features such as translations, tag clouds, integration with different services such as twitter or piwik, import from dotclear and rss, fixed a number of mistakes and improved a lot the codebase. This was a proof that there is a bunch of people that are willing to make better softwares just for the sake of fun.
Thank you, guys, you're why I like open source so much.