Bug with tech-notes

[karthik]

Now that the blog loop ignores technotes, the main ropensci.org/blog page is empty for page 1 because it does nothing when there is just a tech note. Given that we have two consecutive tech notes now, one has to go to page 2 to see a post. This would confuse people and is also bad design.

Instead of:

if category is technotes or pt
    do nothing
else
    do stuff

We need to do something better to prevent this. Not deploying this new post till we can fix this issue.

[sckott]

we can do

{% for post in site.categories.blog %}
    <h3><a href="{{ site.dir }}{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h3>
    {{ post.authors | map: "name" | join: ", " }} &mdash; <i>{{ post.date | date: "%B %e, %Y" }}</i><br>
    {{ post.content | strip_html | truncatewords:75}}<br>
    <hr class="gray-line">
{% endfor %}

instead of using paginator in https://github.com/ropensci/roweb/blob/master/blog/index.html#L27-L37

but then we don't have pagination.

apparently jekyll folks really don't want or can't support filtering by category when using pagination

tried various other things, none have worked