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Playing with CSS and Ruby

So I’m playing with a new idea of generating hexcodes based on the time of when the post was created. As it is now 12am, the hex code is #000000, black and boring, but it generates other colors based on the military time. Here’s the Ruby code I wrote to generate the hexcode.

def time_hex
t = Time.now.strftime("%H")
t = Integer(t) * 0.041666
return ["%06x" % (t * 0xffffff)]
end

  

You just need to throw that in your rakefile and put the hexcode: #{time_hex} in your haml/yaml header. Neato!

Now I just need to edit the CSS to link to each of the posts “hexcode” header.

Update: It’s now 1:30am, and I cant get Jekyll to read the hexcode from the post header. I want to shoot someone because I just keep beating my head against this. I don’t like the idea of having an idea and not being able to see it through. Enough for tonight, I’ll try again later.