Public Service Announcement
So there are now three official start dates for Autumn: 1. The Autumnal Equinox...the official official start. 2. Meteorological Autumn - 9/1. The scientists like to break things down into easy chunks for some reason. 3. Starbucks Fall Menu Day - this year its 8/22.
iA Writer and Ghost: setting the title on publish
I ran across something I wanted to share about using iA Writer's built-in Ghost publishing. I found out that while Writer's publishing to Ghost is pretty bare bones it does support setting the title of the post multiple ways: 1. The title can be set by
Time Team
Several decades ago I was up late watching TV. Insomnia. I came across a British TV show on PBS (I think. So long ago.) called "Time Team". I had never seen anything like this show. It was boring yet so damned interesting at the same time. I think
The artwork of AM Cassandre
I’ve always loved just about anything from the Art Deco period but especially the advertising work of A.M. Cassandre. The man produced an epic amount of work, much of it landmark work of the period. If you don’t know Cassandre and you like Art Deco you owe
1Password is still the best password management tool
A recent conversation had me thinking about password tools and why I've stuck with 1Password ever since I bought it around version 2 almost 20 years ago. There have been a few major changes in those years: 1. Subscription Plans 2. 1Password Cloud 3. Moving to a common
Yet another reason why Brave is the browser you should be using
People seem to have a real love/hate thing with browsers. Everyone has their own feelings as to why their browser is the best whether it's because they think that browser speaks for their ideals (usually the Firefox faithful) or because they hate something else (usually the Firefox
Notes on migrating Ghost and Mailgun to a new domain
⚠️Old post but still relevant except for the domains I am using. I just moved this blog from blog.jasonkratz.me to echoville.blog while at the same time moving to using echoville.blog as the domain for Mailgun. My platform for this blog is: 1. Fastmail for my custom
Using "Free" Mailgun with self-hosted Ghost
Just a couple of notes about setting up a Mailgun pay-as-you-go account to use with a self-hosted Ghost setup for things I ran into that weren't obvious to me. Make sure to sign up for the Foundation trial for Mailgun This lets you add a a credit card
Using the Mac clipboard from a shell
I assume most people that will read this probably already know this but I often forget it's a thing so here we go, a blog post. Once in a while I need to copy or paste data while using a shell command in the terminal. Usually it'
Writing on Ghost with Ulysses and iA Writer
Up until recently this blog was hosted on Blot.im. For various reasons, mostly because I suck at front-end web development, I moved to a PikaPods-hosted version of Ghost where this blog is currently living (and should be living for a long time). Ghost has really good default themes and