First Ghost Post

Have again moved this blog to a new host, this time a free-tier serverless offering by fly.io. It's a Ghost-based image running off a free 3GB persistent disk. If you care.

Given my lack of posting, as is usual, this is all more about the tech than any actual contribution to society. The original blog was run with MovableType via good old Fanstatico control panel at a fairly old-school ISP, HostingMatters; was there from something like 2003 to 2015 or so. Moved to the free-er world of github pages - that was great, except the UI wasn't that great and I just never wanted to learn the details of Jekyll-blogging esp on top of Github continuous-deployment. (Easier with prose.io, but that just meant some other oddities to learn. So, that lasted just 6-7 years.

With Ghost, have pretty nice UI for management, better RSS, better themes (which will be changing regularly, sorry), a cute subscription service for people who don't use RSS, and more. Might even spin one or two more up and run 'private' blogs/sites for various adventures, closed to the general public.

As an aside, I'm doing much the same thing with TiddlyWiki5 on the side. But as much as I'm keen on it, it keeps disappointing in more advanced user-friendly features (and simple things like authentication and backup (in the server edition)). You can play around with tiddlywiki at tiddlyhost. Somewhere out there is the best GettingThingsDone system I've ever seen, used to be called 'cardo'. So good it was too horrible seeing how little I was getting done!

As we say, "more to come"