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+from "git://github.com/aucor/jekyll-plugins.git" do
+  file "_plugins/strip_tag.rb", "strip.rb"
+end
+
+from "git://github.com/lipis/flag-icon-css.git" do
+  file "_sass/_flags.scss", "css/flag-icon.css"
+  folder "flags", "flags"
+end

_plugins/date_to_pretty_filter.rb

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+module Jekyll
+  module DateToPrettyFilter
+    def date_to_pretty(input)
+      date = Time.at(input)
+      now = Time.now
+
+      if now - date <= 43200
+        date.strftime("%H:%M")
+      elsif now.year == date.year && now.month == date.month && now.day == date.day
+        date.strftime("%H:%M")
+      elsif now.year == date.year && now.month == date.month && now.day == date.day + 1
+        "Yesterday"
+      elsif now.year == date.year
+        date.strftime("%e %B")
+      else
+        date.strftime("%e %B %Y")
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+Liquid::Template.register_filter(Jekyll::DateToPrettyFilter)

_plugins/strip_tag.rb

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+# Replaces multiple newlines and whitespace 
+# between them with one newline
+
+module Jekyll
+  class StripTag < Liquid::Block
+
+    def render(context)
+      super.gsub /\n\s*\n/, "\n"
+    end
+
+  end
+end
+
+Liquid::Template.register_tag('strip', Jekyll::StripTag)