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Running a Ghost Blog, Part 2

I mentioned in the previous post in this series that I was looking forward to working on this blog like it was a car, and that has turned out truer than even I expected. This website is barely two weeks old as I write this, and I'm already modifying the source of the blogging platform to fix tiny details that are just... bugging me. I'll admit it was a slippery slope to live-editing the source of the CMS, but it didn't start there. The first step down the slippery slope was uploading a custom … (Continued)

Running a Ghost Blog, Part 1

Depending on how you count it, this is the fifth or sixth blog I've contributed to, and the first running on Ghost. The first was on Blogger (I never did have a LiveJournal), and the rest of them have been WordPress, which has been the reigning champ of the blogging world for a long, long time. But WordPress is... old. It uses PHP and CGI scripts, which are perfectly functional but dated. Nobody with a choice would use those technologies to start something new and modern. Practically speakin … (Continued)