We've published the source code to q42.nl and q42.com here for your perusal.
If you find anything on our site that you feel needs fixing, be it code, spelling or anything else, don't hesitate to send us a pull request or create an issue. We maintain the site ourselves with the same workflow.
Sounds like it'll be a royal pain in the butt ey? Guess again amigo.
The hard bit since the repo is around ~100MB
git clone https://github.com/[YOURUSERNAME]/q42.nl.git
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
Visit http://win.meteor.com/ for instructions on how to get Meteor running on Windows.
Create a file in the server/lib directory called tumblr_api_key.js that declares the TUMBLR_KEY constant:
TUMBLR_KEY = "MY_KEY";
This is required for the blog to not explode (even though you won't actually be able to see any posts without our real API key).
In order to get this working you need to call a Meteor method named setupChatConfig and pass it your incoming and outgoing webhook tokens from Slack. Or you can not do this, and then nothing will change except that the chat won't work.
We serve assets from a Google Cloud Storage bucket. To set this up on your machine you're going to need the gsutil command line utility. Info on how to get this running and other details you might be interested in are found here:
https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil_install
The gsutil command is used by the deploy.sh script when deploying the site. It will publish all the assets to the CDN for you automatically! Unfortunately, to be able to do this you need to have write access to the bucket.
As a result of serving assets from the CDN, Meteor's /public folder is only useful for local development. All assets are referenced via http://static.q42.nl rather than something like <img src="/mypicture.jpg">! To get things working nicely in local dev, you'll need to add http://static.q42.nl to your hosts file:
127.0.0.1 static.q42.nl
But since Meteor runs on port 3000, this won't work, so we'll have to run Meteor on port 80 too (see below).
cd q42.nl
sudo meteor --port 80
Note that we need to use sudo to get it to bind to port 80.
Since you need to deploy to two separate sites (q42.nl and q42.com), there's a script which will take care of both commands. Just run:
./deploy.sh
Only authenticated users can deploy using Meteor's developer accounts system.
Content for the site is located in the /views folder as regular .html files, so if you want to edit some content, just navigate to that file and edit it! A really fast way to clean up spelling mistakes and similar small problems is to just load the repository on Github and use its built-in editor to edit files. Github will automatically fork the project for you and submit a pull request. Yay!
We use the reblog icon by Yo Szczepanska from the Noun Project: http://thenounproject.com/term/reblog/7116/ (CC BY 3.0).
There is no license. This is the code for our website, copyright Q42. You can browse the source and learn from our mishaps, but please don't re-use the code elsewhere or redistribute it.