Posts on development — Page 15

The journey from WordPress to Ghost to Jekyll — why each platform was a step closer to the ideal developer blogging setup, and what finally made a static site the right choice.

A recommendation for Hyperpolyglot, a site that puts JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby side-by-side to show how similar languages really are at a syntax level — great for picking up a new language faster.

Why buying a Themeforest theme beat spending another weekend at 85% on a custom design — freeing up time and energy for writing and building things that actually matter.

A tip for getting exact browser and OS details from clients using yourbrowser.is — useful for reproducing cross-browser bugs with tools like Browserstack when you can't replicate the issue yourself.

An honest comparison list after switching from WordPress to Ghost — the features and familiarity left behind, and the things Ghost genuinely does better for a developer who just wants to write.

A candid account of attempting to point a custom domain to Ghost Pro — the DNS rabbit hole, what almost worked with CloudFlare and Hover, and why sometimes forwarding the domain is good enough.

Personal notes and session schedule from St. Louis WordCamp 2015 — highlights include a talk on Atomic Design Principles and a podcasting panel that made for a nice change of pace.

A first look at Ghost CMS after years on WordPress — covering its speed, built-in Markdown support, and writer-focused experience that makes blogging feel fresh again.

A showcase of the Missing Content WordPress plugin — a shortcode-based placeholder tool that generates lorem ipsum, bacon ipsum, hipster ipsum, Blokk font blocks, and placeholder images during development.