I fell down a rabbit hole a few days ago. I wanted to write a blog post about my new irc library, but the rbenv I had setup to run Octopress was all messed up. I stated poking around to try and remind myself how to get it working again and eventually decided that I should really look for a new static site generator written in language that I like to use. I ended up picking Pelican.

I was inspired by Ivan Zuzak's post to try using GitHub issues on the repository for this blog to collect and display reader comments. I'm using Octopress to generate the site, so I decided to make some customizations to make applying Ivan's ideas easy for me.

I started by adding a new configuration setting to my _config.yml file: github_comments: true. I'll use this configuration switch to turn the new feature on in other places in the codebase.