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Toward Federated Microblogging

Microblogging is a term coined, I believe, in the Tumblr days, before Twitter as we know it, but it basically refers to what we now think of as Twitter. Short messages, a few sentences at most, and maybe a few photos. For my purposes, it's just a way to share with friends and family a few photos as a way of saying "Here's a thing we did recently." without needing to write an entire blog post about it. This blog that you're reading right now is running Ghost, a lightweight, simple piece … (Continued)

Burning Myself Out

In January 2018, I launched a shooting podcast I called Short Course. I had previously co-hosted the Triangle Tactical Podcast for two and a half years, from 2014 through 2016, and I still had the itch. I still had ideas that I wanted to get out there, that I thought could help folks by passing on what I had learned. So in the closing days of 2017, as I left one job and started another, it felt like the right time to tackle this podcast project I had been rolling around in my head for over a y … (Continued)

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 … (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)