I think I made something.

Big shout out to @hello@synapsmedia.com for joining @[email protected] in sponsoring me over on Github. I appreciate the love ♥️.... and especially the ☕️. https://github.com/sponsors/cathysarisky if anyone else is so inclined!

It’s a little early for 2026 goals, but I’ll ask anyway: page builder for Ghost, or Apple News integration for Ghost? I have partial projects for both…

First time it hasn’t been my fault…

Ok ok. I could get up later:

Here's my "hot take" on "free" domains through Ghost Pro: TL;DR. I suspect this offering will appeal to some folks who are super scared to touch their DNS and want a one-click solution. But I'll be skipping it. Why? (thread starts here 1/2? 3?)

Welcome to @Ghost to 端傳媒 Initium Media / https://theinitium.com . Y'all, be sure to check this one out, especially the language switcher. There was blood, sweat, and tears, and the search-re-indexing is still running, but it's looking mighty good!

Trying to book an AirBnB for an upcoming trip, and the number of places that have no info on stairs is aggravating. It should NOT be hard to filter by whether a unit is a 3rd floor walkup vs first floor vs in an elevator building, but my only option is "step free entrance". In all of Myrtle […]

After 3 months - counting by number of servers (unique domains) - @ghost is now the most-deployed piece of ActivityPub software out there 31% of all sites that interop with open social web standards are running on Ghost Pretty cool! Doesn't represent […] [Original post on john.onolan.org]

Sneak peek:

Fascinating piece on what terms to use for local news. (It's local news, not journalism.) https://www.pressforward.news/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Words-That-Work-A-Toolkit-for-Newsrooms.pdf

I've apparently been upgraded from "Certified Ghost Expert" to "Ghost Goddess". Do I put that on my resume? Thanks, https://newsie.social/@ForwardKY

Life in the AI assistant era: Hmm. My client is going to need to make new contributors every time they publish. That's going to be annoying. Hey Cursor, could you write me a tool that writes out staff member import files? Kthxbye. https://sws-staff-builder.netlify.app/

That moment when you realize that the search sync functionality you used last month to sync 3000 posts that seemed a little slow? Well, that was the dev site, with only 10% of the total posts. Question of the day is whether my computer runs out of memory while trying to retrieve all the posts […]

Meet the {{#split}} helper - Handlebars goes all JavaScript-y https://www.spectralwebservices.com/p/84c60e15-2851-4c4e-b7d6-2016ed73968d/

Want to include social sharing buttons in your Ghost newsletter? I built a thing: https://sws-newsletter-share-buttons.netlify.app/ (It generates html that you can paste into an HTML card in your newsletter before emailing it out.)

New post, after quite a while too long: https://www.spectralwebservices.com/blog/ghost-carousel/

Bought concert tickets with Stubhub, back in May. Tickets arrived at 10pm tonight, for a concert at 7:30pm tomorrow. Tickets show "LTD VIEW", which Stubhub agrees was not disclosed. They need 10 days to decide if they will process a refund. What the heck am I supposed to do with that??

With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media. Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

Still #caturday here!

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 […]

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

Duuude. I just got my Ghost -> Apple News working and it is glorious.

New in Ghost 6.0! Analytics Dashboard with Web Analytics looks great! Here is a screenshot from my blog, running on synapsmedia.com

It's finally here! Ghost 6.0 is the biggest update we've ever made — and it includes federated publishing for everyone, with ActivityPub ❤️ We also shipped a brand new native analytics sweet, and passed a pretty cool milestone. Independent publishers […] [Original post on activitypub.ghost.org]

If you'd like to follow my blog, I'm over at @cathy as of this morning. Welcome to Ghost 6.0!

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Good news: Update activities work now - so when you update a post in Ghost, it'll be updated in the Fediverse, too. Not long to go now 🤞

Big week next week. BIG.

Told my kids that I just got a deposit to build a discord bot. I was very briefly cool/interesting.

Welcome to Ghost (@index@activitypub.ghost.io) , @[email protected] and @[email protected]

Spent my day today trying to get AI to take my (volunteer) job. https://lnkd.in/eKXB6p6M

Well yes, yes I did just assign medals to the languages with the most complete translations in Ghost. Because gamification is fun, right? (Hat tip to @leif for mentioning gamification this morning. ) @tryghost Want to help? https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/23361 #webdev #goodfirstissue

Started my Friday with a "Paper Jam", run by @leif . If you'd like to talk about human factors in software engineering with a small (select?) group of interesting folks once a month, you should totally check it out. Here's the link: https://leif.me/paper-jams/ TIL: That some people […]

I’m a recovering chemist, clearly. Thinking today about activation energy. The client portal for my ghost sso product uses supabase auth, because it was the easiest way to stand it up, and meant I didn’t need any additional backend for client updates. (Get an auth token with supabase and you can […]

Schrodinger’s tests. The automated tests both pass and fail, until GitHub CI actually finishes running them.

For some reason, I especially like this issue of the @tryghost newsletter. https://ghost.org/resources/detangling-your-deliveries/

At least I got a new blog post out of yesterday's 'fun': https://www.spectralwebservices.com/blog/translating-ghost-posts-with-deepl/

An hour on a call with a client, trying to help her get some domains transferred. I thought it was her, or her internet, until we got off the call and I looked at my email... where there was a message from another client, who has infra on cloudflare. Yeah. OK. Trying to figure out which of […]

Been muddling around with my Ghost Pro demo site's activitypub instance, trying to work out whether there's a way to use some javascript to pull activitypub likes and replies onto a blog page. (The goal here is to let site visitors see my replies and likes, not to replicate what's already in […]

so @index , @john , I feel like what's missing from Ghost/ActivityPub is the ability to make the existence of the fediverse more obvious from my blog. How can a visitor to my blog see my short-form content? How does a visitor to my blog's page find out that there are replies over in the fediverse?