This is a small companion post to my Ghost on Fly tutorials, covering how to keep your site backed up.
The normal way to backup a Ghost site hosted on a VPS is
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There aren’t many good ways to monetize a blog. Ads degrade the reader’s experience; membership paywalls restrict reach; sponsorships restrict freedom. Affiliate links have the potential to be a non-destructive monetization
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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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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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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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Ghost is one of the fastest-growing publishing platforms. However, for those looking to dip their toes in the water, one aspect can be off-putting: the shiny Ghost(Pro) hosting (referral link) starts at
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When I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 LTS, I finally took the plunge and switched from the i3 window manager on X11 to Sway, an almost drop-in Wayland replacement. Here&
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In this tutorial I’ll show how to convert manuscripts written in markdown into a variety of industry-standard formats, automatically, using Pandoc.
Why bother?
I write short-stories and essays in markdown, but many
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