Scribd's tech blog

Our tech blog is published to tech.scribd.com. The goal of the site is to share what we're up to as we build, design, and deploy the technology that powers scribd.com.

Content Guidelines

The CONTRIBUTING document has some details on how to contribute to this repository, but if you've contributed to a Jekyll-based site before, this should all be fairly straight-forward.

The types of content published should generally be technology oriented, but discussions about organization culture, collaboration, and process are welcome so long as they pass the bar of: "would this be interesting to somebody we would want to work with us?"

Local build

# If you don't have Ruby 2.6 installed
# jekyll-sass-converter requires Ruby version >= 2.4.0
# Default MacOS ruby version is 2.3
# Ruby < 2.6 are not maintained anymore
# Ruby 2.7 prints bunch of warnings for Jekyll < 3.8.7
# Using Jekyll 3.8.7 requires bumping github-pages and jekyll-feed
brew install ruby@2.6
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/ruby@2.6/bin:$PATH"' >> "$HOME/.bash_profile"
source "$HOME/.bash_profile"

sudo gem install bundler # if you don't have bundler installed
bundle config set path vendor
bundle install

bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload # for auto-updading
open http://localhost:4000