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My wife volunteers on the school yearbook committee, working in a proprietary web tool. Watching her, I got curious: what if a yearbook was just a Git repo? So I built one as a Jekyll template. lskatz.github.io/yearbook-tem...

Lee Katz

@lskatz.github.io

25 Apr

Adding a kid is one entry in a YAML file and a photo named jane-smith.jpg. Then list jane-smith under whatever class, club, or sports team she's in. A profile page is auto-generated, listing every group she's in.

Lee Katz

@lskatz.github.io

What's in the box: • Class / club / sports / staff pages • Auto profile pages per person • Photo galleries with people-tagging • Name search • Superlatives, year-in-review, autographs • Print-to-PDF • Auto image resize + EXIF stripping

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Lee Katz

@lskatz.github.io

25 Apr

Caveats: this is a hobby project, not a production service. The demo uses Malcolm in the Middle characters as stand-in students. If you'd want to try it for real, the README covers privacy and hosting tradeoffs — but use at your own risk. MIT licensed: github.com/lskatz/yearb...

github.comGitHub - lskatz/yearbook-template: A template for making a yearbook through the Jekyll framework https://lskatz.github.io/yearbook-template/A template for making a yearbook through the Jekyll framework https://lskatz.github.io/yearbook-template/ - lskatz/yearbook-template