Yesterday evening I was laying by the fire and reading a book. It was my first evening off in a while; I had shut down my computer before heading for dinner, and I
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Sometimes, you just want to link to a specific segment of a YouTube video. Deep-linking to a specific start time in a YouTube video is fairly common — but sometimes specifying an end-time is
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A small companion post to my Ghost on Fly tutorials:
You’ve gotten your site all set up on Fly’s free tier, and it’s looking spiffy. But the Ghost developers move
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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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