Dan Foreman-Mackey

I like GitHub a lot. That’s why I host many of my projects on it and even my blog. In that spirit, I decided to code up a (mildly convoluted) way of posting comments on my static Jekyll blog using GitHub forks.

If you click on the “post a comment” link, below, it will – after checking with you first – fork the source for this page using your GitHub account and then let you edit it. After you add your comment, you can simply submit it as a pull request.

How to add a comment

At the very end of the document, you’ll find a line that looks like:

* github-username - January 1, 2012 - Your comment...

All you need to do is copy this line, add your GitHub username and your comment (written in Markdown syntax) then submit a pull request. You’re also welcome to make changes to the post if you have any suggestions for tweaks. It’s not elegant but it is a novelty! Let me know what you think in the comments section below.

Comments

• github-username - January 1, 2012 - Your comment…
• dfm - August 5, 2011 - This is what a comment looks like! Let me know what you think…
• jonathansick - August 6, 2011 - If spam-bots start figuring out how to make comments… that’ll be the day…
• jakemannix - November 14, 2011 - Given the relative difficulty of making comments like this, I’m pretty sure that this will be the most spam-free blog in the blogosphere. It may also be the most comment-free blog as well, but that’s O.K.! Nice work.
• davidwhogg - 2012-08-03 - I think you should require ISO 8601 date formatting.
• ninehills - August 10, 2012 - Better than disqus!
• branduren - October 14, 2012 - Neatly done :)
• crdx - January 1, 2013 - This is quite cool. Not convenient at all, but cool nonetheless.
• ruvido - ok agreed it is cool and super nerd… but it’s not really usable… (but hate disqus)