Hexojs is one of the most popular static site generator based on nodejs [ref].
There are around 75 themes list on the website, here is the top 10 popular ones.
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Abner Chou
Oct 16, 2016
The Microsoft TechRewards Program will close on January 6, 2017. (ref) All challenges have cleaned up now (Oct-06-2016).
Really don’t have any hard feeling about this. The only reward attracted me was the AppToCerts, which rewarded you the MS certificate if passed two challenges. Other than it, to achieve a $2 reward, you have to complete at least 3 challenges, and the rewards are all donations.
So here I will list the reasons why I think it is going to fail:
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Abner Chou
Oct 06, 2016
Nowadays, it is easy to get an TLS certificate to create HTTPS website (Ref), but it requires the full control of server and configuration to maintain. However, for the casual user, like me this blog, I host my content on a third party server (Github Pages), which strictly forbids to customize server settings. To bypass those limits on server side, we need a middle layer to control all traffics, the Cloudflare is the best tool.
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Abner Chou
Sep 22, 2016
I have been planing to come up a list of games that teach people to program. Luckily with the chance got requested to answer on Quora, I spent some time to organize the list.
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Abner Chou
Sep 03, 2016
You could start the game from here, hosted by
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Abner Chou
Aug 05, 2014
Recently I just rent a VPS on Digital Ocean,
which is cheap for a student and who is price sensitive.
As it gives you all the controls of an OS, it likes a remote compute machine.
Meanwhile, you could do anything as you have your own server.
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Abner Chou
Jul 13, 2014
Because our Earth is in a system called Solar System.
I don’t think the answer would be simple as that.
Why the Earth could not be the center?
Actually it could.
As we learn in physic, all motions are relative, like we feel we are still on the Earth, but we actually spin and orbit the Sun.
Moreover, we orbit the Sun, in another words that the Sun also orbits us.
This doesn’t conflict with motion relative law.
But why we are not saying the Sun is orbiting Earth?
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Abner Chou
Jul 03, 2014
Well, this is my first blog here (right now on github).
I’m using the Octopress as blog content management,
and I will briefly describe the way to set it up.
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Abner Chou
Mar 12, 2014