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 blog on Fly.io without paying a dime. Shortly after, Ghost removed support for SQLite in production, in favour of
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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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Ghost is a free, open-source, and beautiful piece of software that allows you to write and publish your own blog — while keeping out of the way.
Heroku is a Platform as a Service
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Here at the autodidacts we have a sophisticated workflow for turning our project ideas into reality. It’s so arcane it deserves its own branch of historiography, but we settled for an infographic:
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Avconv is a powerful audio and video converter with a mind-bending number of possible configurations and uses. For those of you who took one look at the 7 page table of contents and
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Today we’re delighted to launch our latest project into the world. After months of development, we present NeuroBB — The EEG, BCI, and Neurofeedback Discussion Forum.
Brain-computer interfaces have evolved to the point
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Glidecams are agitatingly expensive but equally sweet. They’re the mechanical heroes of independent film, giving amateurs access to the gorgeous motion shots of pro cinema. Despite their cost, they look like they&
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Issue 43 of Make Magazine features a build tutorial of our Smart Rat Trap project. It was great working with Keith Hammond and the team at Make getting the project in print! You
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