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I suck at typing

As I awkwardly touch type this and force myself to not look at the keys I wonder why I didn't knuckle down and learn this sooner. I started out using hunt and peck.

Michael Michael

State of the lab Feb 2018

Buying a bunch of hardware is fun all on it's own but I want to make sure I am doing something useful with it. So, I built a homelab to play with services

Michael Michael
docker

House hunting with data

Automate data collection using REST APIs and build your own house hunting report card.

Michael Michael
hardware

Ohh Shush - IBM X3650 M3 fan mod

I modded the fans in my IBM X3650 M3 to be quieter using off the shelf Arctic fans.

Michael Michael
docker

Portable Blog - Docker As a Web Host

Migrating a blog is a pain in the ass. Backup databases, backup files, move them, install blog software, restore, figure out what broke and why and then fix it. I am building a blog to chronicle the tech projects I'm working on but I can't be bothered with maintaining a website. So I'm going to...

Michael Michael
Getting Started

Welcome to Ghost

Hey! Welcome to Ghost, it's great to have you :) We know that first impressions are important, so we've populated your new site with some initial Getting Started posts that will help you get

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Getting Started

Using the Ghost editor

Ghost uses a language called Markdown to format text. When you go to edit a post and see special characters and colours intertwined between the words, those are Markdown shortcuts which tell Ghost

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Getting Started

Organising your content with tags

Ghost has a single, powerful organisational taxonomy, called tags. It doesn't matter whether you want to call them categories, tags, boxes, or anything else. You can think of Ghost tags a lot like

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Managing Ghost users

Ghost has a number of different user roles for your team Authors The base user level in Ghost is an author. Authors can write posts, edit their own posts, and publish their own

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Getting Started

Making your site private

Sometimes you might want to put your site behind closed doors If you've got a publication that you don't want the world to see yet because it's not ready to launch, you can

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Getting Started

Advanced Markdown tips

There are lots of powerful things you can do with the Ghost editor If you've gotten pretty comfortable with all the basics of writing in Ghost, then you may enjoy some more advanced

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Getting Started

Setting up your own Ghost theme

Creating a totally custom design for your publication Ghost comes with a beautiful default theme called Casper, which is designed to be a clean, readable publication layout and can be easily adapted for

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