Octopress - A blogging framework for hackers

Octopress is based on Jekyll, however, it is not exactly clear to me what it <i>adds</i> to Jekyll. Is it the extra plugins? Is it Rake-driven management?<p>Reading through the documentation quickly, it seems to add a lot of complexity compared to plain Jekyll.<p>A comparison with Jekyll sans Octopress would be appreciated!

So what makes it for hackers? The Github backend? Including a plugin for code by default? <a href="http://redraftable.com" rel="nofollow">http://redraftable.com</a> is a blog engine for hackers, other than the author won't release sources while the project is still immature.

If you're looking for blogging software for hackers, look at <a href="http://wingolog.org/software/tekuti/" rel="nofollow">http://wingolog.org/software/tekuti/</a>.<p>From the page:<p><pre><code> Tekuti means "I'm telling you" in Oshiwambo. It is weblog software written in Scheme, using Git as its persistent store. </code></pre> 'Nuff said.

This is basically taking Stammy's tutorial and making it into a nice packaged framework: <a href="http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-wordpress-to-jekyll" rel="nofollow">http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-wordpress-to-jekyll</a><p>Good show.

I've been using Octopress for a few weeks now and really like it (I stumbled across it on github and started using the new version before it was released).<p>Static site generators are great, but you still have to do the design, which is a non-starter for a non-designer like myself. With Octopress I was able to get a great looking, Jekyll-powered blog up and rolling as easily as using Wordpress.

I'm still a lot more impressed with the Python spinoff of Jekyll. It's called Hyde (<a href="http://www.github.com/hyde/hyde" rel="nofollow">http://www.github.com/hyde/hyde</a>) and in my opinion a LOT more functional. I do wish that the documentation was a tiny bit more complete though.<p>If I were going to make a new site based on Jekyll, I'd seriously consider Hyde instead.

I guess they never heard of Tokyo Promenade. It's a blogging engine implemented in C99 with no external dependencies on top of Tokyo Cabinet.<p><a href="http://fallabs.com/tokyopromenade/" rel="nofollow">http://fallabs.com/tokyopromenade/</a>

This looks nice. :) Haven't had a chance to try it yet, but it looks very promising. I very recently built a jekyll blog, and while playing around with the CSS was fun and educational, my blog seems kind of shabby in comparison with wordpress blogs and the like, and I don't know if I'd be able to get my design skills up to the point where I'd be able to make my blog look that good.<p>The most surprising thing and biggest issue I can see right now is that there's "a" theme - I was expecting several. But I imagine that there will eventually be support for more (user-contributed) themes. I also like the syntax highlighting (I think pygments looks kind of ugly), although I'd also like to see more support for customizing the highlight appearance, like maybe removing the background.

I'm not quite sure what this offers over jekyll apart from a few more tags and a slightly more opinionated deployment strategy.<p>I was half expecting a combination of the wordpress admin panel + jekyll backend (kind of like gollum except for blogs). Now that would have been imPRESSive.

I feel like I've unleashed a monster by posting this, personally I quite like the opinionated install for Jekyll especially the code plugin / view. Will be using it for my next blog install

can someone summarize why I should move to this from Jekyll? The website is a bit unclear on that.

Original jekyll is better.

Hackers should write code, not blogs.