Sean Francis N. Ballais

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Tacloban City, Philippines

Hi! I'm Sean. I'm a student in the University of the Philippines. I code for fun and freelance a bit on the side. I've written code that many people used already. I blog to express not impress. I've been coding for nearly 5 years already, and still learning. I code, blog, support open source, read, play (sports and video games), listen, and learn. And apparently still single.

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Linux gives me all the tools I need

Hey Jimmy,

I hope you enjoyed reading the article.

I had to use Microsoft Office through Wine because most of the files I receive from my friends, families, and classmates are in .docx or .pptx. From experience, LibreOffice cannot display MS Office files properly. As far as I know, much of the formatting is ruined when I open .docx files in Writer. Also, I'm using features not present in LibreOffice.

On the side note, I'll be installing LibreOffice to open my OpenDocument files (.odt, odp, etc.).

seanballais
6 reasons to blog in Markdown with Jekyll

Hey Aleksandar,

In case you're wondering, the reason why Jekyll is slower compared to Hugo is because Jekyll uses Ruby while Hugo uses Go. Ruby is an interpreted language and is slow. Go, on the other hand, is a compiled language with similarities to C/C++ and thus faster.