Bare-bones slides for a lightning talk on the development tools I whipped up to support me in developing a Tumblr theme.

1. How I learned
to stop caring
and love my
Rube Goldberg
Tumblr theme
development
environment
Thursday, May 30, 13

2. Tools
•3 Tumblr blogs
(data, acceptance, production)
•TumblrThemr
•Middleman
•Guard
•Python SimpleHTTPServer
Thursday, May 30, 13

3. Awesome parts
•Faster feedback loop during
development
•Edit in your editor, not the browser
•Break up page/style into logical chunks
•Asset pipeline is powerful and comfy
Thursday, May 30, 13

4. Sucky parts
•TumblrThemr is hacky
•TumblrThemr source in theme repo
•TumblrThemr requires net connection
•It’s awfully complex
•Still have to copy/paste the finished
theme
Thursday, May 30, 13