SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote (anywhere within UTC-8 to UTC+2)
PROJECT: Design and build a minimal, clean, static site for a software developer (namely, me!). You'll author SASS and a small number of HAML templates that serve as the foundation for the personal site, then use Middleman [0] to actually generate the site along with their blogging extension [1].
[0] <a href="http://middlemanapp.com/" >
[1] <a href="http://middlemanapp.com/basics/blogging/" >
MOTIVATION: I've been giving a lot of talks lately, and I know my co-founder would appreciate it if I spent some time on making my web presence a little more legitimate -- right now, I don't have a public site that I blog about or do anything interesting with, and I'd like to change that.
I'd love to do this myself, but I know that if I try I won't be able to stop myself from going down the rabbit hole of writing my own blog engine first, and that's not going to be good for my sanity. Better to outsource this to someone smart!
SKILLS: If you're interested, you should...
-- Have a good eye for minimalism, clean lines, and a focus on content
-- Know how to write well-structured SASS (and know your way around Compass to avoid reinventing wheels), and how to write organized HAML
-- Able to write some minimal Ruby (enough to wire the Middleman glue together with YAML and some configuration blocks)
-- Understand how to write a readable, understandable git commit
-- Be able to communicate in written English at a reasonable level (if you can read HN, you're probably good!)
My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile. Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I'll try to get back to you.
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