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New Colours: Rosé Pine
Tuesday 7th of February 2023
A while back I simplified the colour palette for the blog, to just ‘light’, ‘dark’ and ‘night-sight’. The first two were basic monochrome schemes that, while functional, were not especially nice . For the past month or so I’ve been using a colour scheme for my text editor called Rosé Pine , a soothing, pastel look that I find surprisingly relaxing to look at. While there’s something to be said f…
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More on themes
Friday 28th of October 2022
In my previous post I mentioned how I’d added the ability for the user to choose themes to Velum. In its original guise, this was a select box with an auto-generated list of themes, each one derived from a CSS file in the directory. It was quite a powerful system, in that each CSS file had complete control over the look of the page, but it had a big downside: it was a maintenance nightmare whe…
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Blog notes: themes etc.
Tuesday 18th of October 2022
A week or so ago I added the ability to switch themes to Velum, so you’re not stuck with the default light-background one (now called Topo ). Since then I’ve been tweaking and fiddling, making sure each theme looks good at any reasonable screen size. Give them a try! There’s also been quite a bit of under-the-hood work to allow for this functionality, as well as various readability and quality im…
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Now On Velum
Wednesday 14th of September 2022
This blog was originally set up using Ghost 0.3.2, and then pretty much never updated. There have been many, many updates to Ghost since that 2015 release, which I’ve basically ignored as I wasn’t using the managed installation on their servers, and had made several modifications to the default Casper theme, and honestly couldn’t be bothered to deal with the hassle of upgrading. Now, Ghost was p…
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Now using Disqus comments
Friday 17th of March 2017
Adobe bought out LiveFyre and shut down the comments system for personal blogs, which is a shame because LiveFyre was a fairly good fit for commenting on this site. It had its issues – the admin interface was terrible and never worked properly – but it loaded right onto the page, not in an iframe, meaning I could use CSS to have full control over the look of the comments. Alas, Disqus loads into a…
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[blog] Comments: Disqus vs others
Thursday 20th of February 2014
Since Ghost doesn’t (and won’t, by design) have a native commenting system, it’s up to the blog owner to use one of the various third-party systems (or roll their own). I’d initially decided to try Disqus since it has a few nice features: It allows anonymous comments : for a small-time blog like mine, there needs to be as little friction as possible if someone wants to respond. It’s easy to integr…
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Adding typographic quotes to Ghost
Tuesday 18th of February 2014
As I write this, Ghost is at version 0.4.1 and does not include the ability to convert straight ‘ and “ quotes to their proper typographic equivalents of ‘ ’ and “ ”, nor does it convert hyphens into en– or em— dashes. Since I’d fiddled with an automatic converter for another project that also used the Showdown converter, I decided to try adding it to Ghost. It wasn’t as straightforward as…
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