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app_blog.ipynb

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-    "Unfortunately, when it comes to blogging, it seems like you have to make a decision: either use a platform that makes it easy, but subjects you and your readers to advertisements, pay walls, and fees, or spend hours setting up your own hosting and weeks learning about all kinds of intricate details. Perhaps the biggest benefit to the \"do-it-yourself\" approach is that you really owning your own posts, rather than being at the whim of a service provider, and their decisions about how to monetize your content in the future.\n",
+    "Unfortunately, when it comes to blogging, it seems like you have to make a difficult decision: either use a platform that makes it easy, but subjects you and your readers to advertisements, pay walls, and fees, or spend hours setting up your own hosting and weeks learning about all kinds of intricate details. Perhaps the biggest benefit to the \"do-it-yourself\" approach is that you really owning your own posts, rather than being at the whim of a service provider, and their decisions about how to monetize your content in the future.\n",
     "\n",
     "It turns out, however, that you can have the best of both worlds! You can host on a platform called [GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com/), which is free, has no ads or pay wall, and makes your data available in a standard way such that you can at any time move your blog to another host. But all the approaches I’ve seen to using GitHub Pages have required knowledge of the command line and arcane tools that only software developers are likely to be familiar with. For instance, GitHub's [own documentation](https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/creating-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll) on setting up a blog requires installing the Ruby programming language, using the git command line tool, copying over version numbers, and more. 17 steps in total!\n",
     "\n",
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     "\n",
     "> Important: Note that if you don't use username.github.io as the name, it won't work!\n",
     "\n",
-    "Once you’ve entered that, and any description you like, click on \"create repository from template\". You have the choice to make the repository \"private\" but since you are creating a blog that you want other people to read, having the underlying files publicly available hopefully won't be a problem for you."
+    "Once you’ve entered that, and any description you like, click on \"create repository from template\". You have the choice to make the repository \"private\" but since you are creating a blog that you want other people to read, having the underlying files publicly available hopefully won't be a problem for you.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Now, let's set up your homepage!"
    ]
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     "### Creating posts"
    ]
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     "Now you’re ready to create your first post. All your posts will go in\n",
     "the \"\\_posts\" folder. Click on that now, and then click on the \"create\n",
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     "As before, you can click on the \"preview\" button to see how your\n",
     "markdown formatting will look.\n",
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     "Have a look at your blog homepage again, and you will see that this post\n",
     "has now appeared! (Remember that you will need to wait a minute or so\n",
@@ -203,9 +197,7 @@
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     "In GitHub, nothing actually changes until you commit— including deleting\n",
     "a file! So, after you click the trash icon, scroll down to the bottom\n",
@@ -223,6 +215,13 @@
     "<img width=\"400\" src=\"images/fast_template/image14.png\" alt=\"Screenshot showing how to upload new files\">"
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+   "source": [
+    "Now let's see how to do all of this directly from your computer."
+   ]
+  },
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-    "If you haven't used git before, GitHub Desktop and a blog is a great way to get started. As you'll discover, it's a fundamental tool used by most data scientists."
+    "If you haven't used git before, GitHub Desktop and a blog is a great way to get started. As you'll discover, it's a fundamental tool used by most data scientists. Another tool that we hope you now love too is Jupyter Notebooks. And there is a way to write your blog directly with it!"
    ]
   },
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