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title: 'Goodbye, Dear Frank.'
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date: 2021-09-14 11:28:02 -0500
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author: ashmaroli
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categories: [team, community]
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Over the weekend, the Jekyll core team learned of the passing of one of our own: *Frank Taillandier*, popularly known
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by his GitHub username @DirtyF.
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Ruby not being his forte, he chose to avoid code-level changes and instead focus on what he did best — *engage with
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the community*.
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He helped resolve complaints reported on the GitHub issue tracker, ensured that Jekyll documentation remained simple for
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novice users yet detailed enough for advanced users seeking additional information.
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He also served as the administrator for Jekyll's public [discourse forum](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/) where he not only
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addressed queries from users and provided tips to improve Jekyll workflow, he also shared feedback on Jekyll sites
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created by the community, and used the forum as a platform to gather feedback on unreleased iterations of Jekyll and
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in-house plugins.
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Abreast with latest developments in the Web-verse, Frank was always quick to introduce technologies that vastly improved
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maintenance in the Jekyll organization. He was instrumental in setting up deploy previews for patches to Jekyll's
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documentation site and later wiring GitHub Actions to handle continuous integrations for Jekyll and in-house projects.
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In spite of spiritually moving away from Jekyll during the later part of his career, choosing to concentrate efforts on
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furthering JAMstack projects, he greatly remained active on Jekyll's development channel on Slack relaying key feedback
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from the community or discuss concerns regarding the future of Jekyll at length.
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Having untimely left Jekyll and our community with an unfillable void, he will be missed immensely. :broken_heart:
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Rest in Peace, friend and colleague. :bouquet:
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