Following on from my previous two posts on the topic, here are some additional things I’ve learned running this blog for free on Fly:
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You can survive a HackerNews traffic spike,
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It’s unlikely, but it’s possible. That’s the beautiful thing about writing on the internet.
I have no idea who you are. You might be the Queen of Denmark. You might
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We all have data that we need to store, and then find. Regardless of type, data tends to build up. Eventually, we need some system for organizing it into sensible categories.
It turns
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[Members only post] I rarely comment on the internet, even though I often have things I want to say, and would like to contribute to the communities I lurk in.
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Not long ago, I wrote a post on how to deploy a Ghost 5 blog on Fly.io without paying a dime. Shortly after, Ghost removed support for SQLite in production, in favour
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[Update September 9th 2022: I contacted the Ghost security team on August 22nd, before publishing this article. Yesterday, I received a response from Ghost's CTO & co-founder; her fix is in
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Or, “How to stop clicking on clickbait headlines like this one, and actually get some work done instead.”
I have used many tricks over the years to keep control over the fraught combination
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Note: this is an introductory article for people who have not heard about of RSS before. If you are a programmer and already know everything, you might get bored and fall asleep.
RSS
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Today I discovered, by accident, that Kobo e-readers have a feature I’ve wished they had for years: an image viewer.
Double tap on an image in a book or Pocket article to
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For some people, making a note is simple: pencil, paper, done! For others, it isn’t:
Which notebook? (Tick-a-tick-a-tick-a)
At the front or the back? (Tick-a-tick-a-tick-a)
Pencil or pen?? (Tick-a-tick-a-tick-a)
Which pen? (Tick-a-tick-a-tick-a)
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I have a new opinion: I don’t need to have an opinion.
Having an educated opinion on a topic is a big investment. Many topics aren’t worth that investment. Not because
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I once got a blogpost on frontpage of HackerNews. Therefore, I am kind of a leading expert on how to get blogposts on frontpage of HackerNews. In this post I will humbly share
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