Link posts / Linklog (john gruber style, similar to hpstr)

[maxheld83]

I think linklogs (john gruber style) are a great idea (especially to rid ourselves of the stranglehold of any one particular social network) for short commentary.

I've tried to implement it here for minimal-mistakes.

In addition to the mmistakes/hpstr-jekyll-theme way, I've also altered the post-index.html so that it includes the complete post with html and linebreaks intact.

The complete post (not the linked url) can be reached by clicking on the timestamp.

Now, obviously, there is one huge problem: this looks pretty bad, and I have no design talent.

As a preliminary fix, I assigned link-posts a smaller headline, but I'm guessing they (and the timestamp or whatever) be designed better.

Still, here's a start.

[maxheld83]

(I'm also currently implementing categories so that one could have multiple pages calling post-index.html and have it display only those posts that include the category of the page).

As in: a post index on, say, my research, categorized "research" should only include those posts categorized "research".

Why am I saying this?

One application of such categories might be post.categories contains linklog(I know that doesn't work), or rather, {{% if post.link %}}etc.
That way, one could have a neat page with only the linklog. Just saying, this is coming :).

[mmistakes]

@maxheld83 Didn't think it made sense to include the complete post in the indexes. I personally think your content should take priority and it seemed weird calling out a link more than the others.

Instead I added a link icon next to the title. It solves 2 problems. The title links to the post on your site, the link goes to the source page your're referencing.

I made this change on the home page because it was missing in your commit. Thanks for the pull requests!

[maxheld83]

@mmistakes absolutely + agreed + thanks!

I'll be sending some more pull requests your way, mostly replicating features from hpstr. (I also have a multilingual setup and multiple authors). You mentioned you'd like to keep minimal mistakes, well, minimal, so you might just want to ignore some of those.

I'm still thinking about an epic shout out for your beautiful designs and generous contributions to the community.