The weekend was spent with family and friends. Also spent a lot of time unfucking things that I had left fallow for far too long - with a reasonable degree of excusability, but I really should have gotten around to it sooner. What next?I think I need to renew my promise of five posts a week. It'll be difficult - I've taken on a couple more daily hell-or-high-water obligations, if not big ones, I'm spending time on music, and maintaining my excercise. In the longer run, I need to figure out where I'm going to be in five years,…
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Have a few things mulling but right now going back and checking over older posts that didn't quite make the translation from Blogger to Wordpress to Ghost unscathed. Fixing embed links, and so forth.…
One of my personal weaknesses is that I tend to get into obsessive ruts - take on a project that interests me, deeply immerse myself in it until I'm satisfied with my level of knowledge and skill, if not polish, then drop it for the next shiny thing that attracts my attention. Daily habit is relatively lacking, and things with slow progress curves requiring months, years of work are also difficult. I also have a tendency to make the perfect the enemy of the good.Knowing this is literally the reason I reformed my excercise plan a while back, and…
In my last post I covered how to get a proper dump of the database. I have, of course, verified the backup of the database. For ghost you can easily do so by spinning up another instance with ghost - this will require a DNS entry or update depending on if it's a replacement or a separate verification instance. Services such as Digital Ocean make it easy to spin up an instance for a couple hours and then destroy them. Update it to the same version, go through the initial setup, and stop ghost using the ghost stop command. You…
After having some issues manually messing around with the backend of my install, I started digging into the issue of "hey, it's nice I can manually dump my entire text contents into a .json file but that can't be scheduled in the GUI or dumped via command line" - especially since there still are some gotchas like "running ghost config without any parameters creates a new config file for the particular env" lurking about. Also, the one "ghost for beginners" guide I could find on backups assumed an SQLite database, and had you stop,…
I know I gave an overview of my impressions so far, but previously had written about it from my point of view, of a guy who’d had some experience with spinning up virtual servers, coding database driven website, and html. So, let’s take a look at what people are complaining about in ghost. Most of these are from this whiny straw man filled post here. It’s just the new hotness It requires command line setup and a dedicated server No iOS app No comments it’s overrated, a solution to a problem people think they have with…
While I'd already done enough digging around to know that Ghost would be a good platform to migrate to, there were nevertheless a few things that caught me by surprise. One moderately miffing me, the others for the better. Migration This was the big win. One could kindof get content exported out of wordpress in preparation for Joomla, and ditto Drupal, the latter has convergence issues, and while the backend has some fantastic ideas, the infrastructure is not turnkey for individuals who just want something that works. Given what I'm about to write, that is a higher bar than you…
Had a few DNS hiccups - remind me to go over what I've suddenly decided I don't like about using Dreamhost as a registrar, but not deal breakers - but once DNS shifted over and I reran ghost setup to get ghost restarted, the SSL cert regenerated, and NginX restarted with said SSL cert in place, most of it fell into place. I still have some experimenting to do with a few other features, and absolutely need to pick a new theme, and am going through a few posts at a time to clean up some of the uttery craptacular…