Ugh, that's the worst. I'm glad that my washing machine is two feet lower than any finished flooring. My fridge, however, has managed to leak enough water to do some flooring damage behind it, and slightly stain the base of the cabinet it sits in. There's nothing there that'd be an easy fix -- […]

Also slightly over two hours in the car. Blergh.

8 hours of billed work today. (Which means something more like 10 hours, if you count all the emailing, accounting, forum helping, spit-balling ideas with one of my favorite Ghost devs, etc etc. My 🧠 is now mush.

Sigh. Why is everything around me broken? (Answer: we bought a full set of appliances when we moved 13 years ago, and so they're all end of life.) Just spent a freaking $130 to buy a pair of drawer slides for the freezer. A freezer that could be replaced for no more than 10x that. Yeah, no way […]

#FreelancerStandUp (slightly belated) - got a publisher moved from Substack to Ghost yesterday, after her custom domain got screwed up and we couldn't get a response from a real human. Substack is apparently using an AI chat bot for first line support, and it was terrible.

Hi! :) I am on Ghost 6.0 (clearly), but haven't gotten around to doing the work of porting to Docker. I'm currently using the ghost-cli version, with ap.ghost.org providing the ActivityPub access. I expect I'll eventually hop over to Docker, but the things that pay the bills have had me busy […]

Car news: Got the lock cylinder swapped out. That leaves just the back door outer handle not unlatching the door, and then I think I'm as done as I can get with this project. The fit isn't great because of some very slight deformation of the center post, but it's good enough for the driving […]

#FreelancerStandUp: Today: Forked the Ghost comments app because my client (1) wanted the expertise examples localized [Chinese-looking people with expertise that matches the client's brand] (2) had to have a status badge next to usernames for their highest tier, and this was a must have item […]

My brain hurts, having spent most of my day looking at Chinese. I wrote some seriously gnarly handlebars today. Getting really good at distinguishing traditional from simplified Chinese characters, since I was setting up a language switcher. OK, actually I've only learned the characters for […]

🚗 Car update (for those of you following along): I got the new strike plate installed. Discovered the supposedly-intact salvage front door had been stripped of an important bracket. Raided the crashed-into and then sawn-apart door for the necessary bracket. The door shuts, but not super easily […]

It's funny - I can always tell when a platform announcing they'll shut down, because there's a sudden uptick in pre-sales queries.

#FreelancerStandUp: Bashed some bugs, and spent way too much time traversing trees. The client has a deeply-nested book-ish thing, and did not want to fuss with using dates to get it in order. Every article has up to three tags, representing where it is in the giant hierarchy. Spent part of […]

#FreelancerStandUp - rolling out another news site, with back archives dating the the 80s and an inconsistent-ish data model. Complicated! :) In car news: we got the sawn-through strike plate off with the help of a neighbor, so when the replacement comes in on Thursday, we /might/ be back to […]

It does not fit better. It might latch, if we had a striker. Not that we can get the old one off. OTOH, it might not. Broke 2 12mm sockets and one adapter getting the hinges off the replacement door. Leverage (4 feet of metal broom handle as a cheater bar) is a powerful thing.

Car door update: Both doors off. Salvage yard back door reinstalled. Fit is marginal, a little deformation on the center post? Discovered after putting it on that the outside handle doesn't work-- although we have a whole (squished) door to cannibalize for parts if we care. Inspection doesn't […]

I spent too much of yesterday trying to take doors off our car, which got hit in a fairly minor (but door-destroying) accident a couple weeks ago. We had a clear path to getting the damaged doors off and new ones on, until the driver's door jammed shut on Friday, and will not reopen. Power tools […]

#FreelancerStandUp - fixing the archive page where suddenly most of the content is missing. Did the client upgrade to 6.0? That's my guess!

#FreelancerStandUp: I owe too many people too many things. I'm going to try to get some of them done, already.

Showing off: Check out the login flow for getting Ghost members on a specific paid tier only into a private Discord channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G0AHBAR9CQ . And yes, if they cancel in Ghost, they get kicked, too. :) I also detect if they're already linked to Discord, to change the […]

Welcome to Ghost, https://this.weekinsecurity.com and @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social !

#FreelancerStandUp - too much time spent debugging my Ghost<->Discord integration. If you make something foolproof, someone /will/ invent a better fool... Also bashed some bugs, dealt with the insurance, worked on project requirements for week after next, and shredded a ton of old paperwork from […]

#FreelancerStandUp - dealing with KoFi->Ghost and MailChimp->Ghost, bashing layout issues and import cruft mostly.

#FreelancerStandUp - doing a content import (from Mailchimp, which is TABLES all the way down) and Stripe subscribers from KoFi, and then some theme customization to make it all pretty. :)

Dear just-technical-enough-to-get-into-trouble clients: If you edit your theme because you're getting an error message about having `limit="all"` in your theme somewhere, and so you remove the limit=all and replace it with nothing, that means you're causing #get to do the default behavior, which […]

Integration up! Pretty nice synchronization, too. Downgrade your plan/cancel/get deleted in Ghost? Get your role stripped & server kicked in Discord! It has to be two steps - first click an invite, then enter your discord handle, just because of the […] [Original post on spectralwebservices.com]

#FreelancerStandUp - It's lunch time, and guess who has a working Ghost <-> Discord integration that handles invites and roles, but ONLY for members on a specific Ghost tier? This girl. Coming up after lunch: Remove Discord Roles & kick if they cancel their Ghost subscription. But first, lunch.

#FreelancerStandUp - Building a Ghost-Discord integration today, having set out yesterday to build a Ghost-Slack integration before concluding (too far in) that the plan required for Slack to allow this to work is unfortunately well beyond the client's budget. (Why the heck is inviting a user […]

Hello! Sorry the image didn't come through. That's weird, I can see it in my AP notes view. I've got an issue open on it: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/24684 and an article about it: https://www.spectralwebservices.com/blog/activitypub-and-buttons-and-links/ (blog link, but you can […]

Ohhh, good idea, Murat! I was thinking about adding for the AP Reader, but you're right, removing for Web is the better thought. I think you actually don't need the javascript in your example. Just #hide-it { display: none } since styles are also getting stripped when a post goes out to the […]

#FreelancerStandUp -- but really #FreelancerFollies . Just accidentally invoiced a client for 1200 hours instead of 12 hours. Am very sorry to report that he didn't pay it. Could have taken the next year off! Client reply: "I know I told you you should raise your rates, but I didn't mean by that […]

Sadly, I only found them, not fixed them.

Five! Five bugs in one morning! (Yes @index@philsimon.com, I clocked out first. Getting back to work now.) It's only 10:15am here. Think I'll find a 6th one before lunch? 🤣

Oops. Make that four bugs.

#FreelancerStandUp: 9am and I've already filed three bugs against Ghost and written a blog post. Oh, you mean, what am I doing that's paid today? Well, um. That's up next!

In other words (dratted short form content), your button goes to "https://admindash.spectralwebservices.com/ghost/#/portal/signup/free" for me, because its url is apparently #/portal/signup/free

Hey @[email protected] - I love what you're doing with the logo in the CTA - it even works in ActivityPub! But... then I clicked the button, and it tried to open portal on MY site (actually my admin subdomain). I think you need to […] [Original post on spectralwebservices.com]

And with that, I'm going to bed. Good thing that was idle Saturday night screwing around, because it was a pretty silly waste of time.

Did some playing around tonight trying to see if I could get some javascript to load into the ActivityPub reader. As a self-hoster, I have the ability to do interesting things to cards.min.js, and i was pretty excited about that, since AP loads it. I […] [Original post on spectralwebservices.com]

I've done two custom author pages for two separate newsrooms in the last few weeks. In one case, I went with storing that data in posts, under the theory that the contributors would be able to create their own. In the second case, I went with pages, because it reduces the complexity in routing […]

🎉(Aside: Did you know there's no support for :tada -style emoji addition here? I had to fire up a separate tab to copy-paste from. Tragic? Not really. 🤷)

Joining @[email protected] in #FreelancerStandUp. Let's see how long I can keep this up (especially while exploring Wales with my parents and mother in law these days) Today I've dealt with a few customer inquiries, debugged an ActivityPub oddity, and...ordered a new home server to […]

I decided I needed a daily stand up for accountability purposes, but it's mostly just me. So the plan (as you might have noticed this week) is to do it here. If you're curious about what I'm doing, follow along. If you want to join in, please do! Today, although it's Saturday, I'm revising an […]

Hey, at least you didn't accidentally create an infinite loop and post-bomb your readers, like I did back in the beta with my test account. (I had webhook triggers creating new posts that triggered webhooks that...) That was before it was possible to delete posts, too! 🤣 I rendered my own […]

I did a little vibe hacking, and here's where I got to... https://www.spectralwebservices.com/blog/a-sample-activitypub-feed/

Did a nice integration between Ghost and a donation platform. I'm tagging donors with several labels, so that the client can send segmented messages to donors without ever leaving Ghost.