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A better, updated way of syncing Instagram posts to a Ghost blog

I came up with a better way of synchronising my Instagram posts on my Ghost blog (this) using a fairly simple node script and some third party libraries. This post explains how.

Aug 10, 2020

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Changing an EC2 instance type manually

A reference for how I manually created a new EC2 instance and transferred my companies data/processes over without noticeable downtime.

Aug 10, 2020

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Ghost is awesome

I recently played with Medium, and ended up back using Ghost. I figured I would upgrade Ghost to the latest version, and boy was I surprised. I wrote a post at the end of 2016 about automatically updating your Ghost install. A lot has seemingly happened in a year. I

Aug 12, 2017

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Automatically updating your self hosted Ghost install

Ghost version 0.9.0 has just been released, introducing awesome new functionality such as scheduled posting (which I am utilisng to post this :)). This is fantastic news, but I run three different self hosted ghost blogs and I only just updated to 0.8.1. Whilst updating Ghost isn't

Aug 17, 2016

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Upgrades and instances with the Ghost blogging platform

The Double Negative blog (you are reading it..) runs on the Ghost blogging platform. The decision to use Ghost was a simple one. * It is made by great developers and has been built well. * It is written in javascript (Node.js) and allowed me to learn and play with some

Jul 05, 2015

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Ghost - remember to stop forever

Installing Ghost on an Ubuntu server is a relatively simple and painless process. I have done it many times before and us such I was somewhat bemused as to why I was getting a 500 error when accessing my domain. SQLITE_CANTOPEN unable to open database file I did some

Aug 02, 2014