So far so Ghost
This website lives on a docker host in my office closet. The theme is the official Journal theme, slightly modified.
Wow my personal website needs some love. No new posts in years. Can't even find the markdown sources used to generate the website anymore. I'd like to recommend a few projects I'm involved in move from Wordpress or Confluence to Ghost. But can I really make that recommendation? So here I am, dogfooding to find out.
Why is Ghost interesting?
- Beautiful post editing environment
- Open sourceish and relatively standardized
- Integrated e-mail lists
- Lightweight
- Well put together docker container
- Straightforward theming engine
The journey so far
This website lives on a docker host in my office closet. The theme is the official Journal theme, slightly modified. Because the official theme has a public github repo, the modifications can easily be rebased onto future theme updates to keep current. Deployment is based on the official ghost docker container, with a Dockerfile that injects the customized theme. So in theory, the custom theme can easily follow the official docker container updates with a little automation.
Wishlist going forward
- A few more custom page layouts
- Gated sections dedicated to project-based posts
- Hands-off automation to deploy new custom container builds as the official container is updated
- Do some writing!