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Simple Image Lazy Loading with Ghost

Simple Image Lazy Loading with Ghost

I recently put up a post [https://blog.xdumaine.com/a-year-in-review-2015] that happened to contain a bunch of images, and realized that the initial experience was kind of crappy, due to loading all of them at once. There were really two things I could do to improve this: lazy load

Get Your Feet Wet Before You Ask "How's the water?"

One of the most important things we try to teach our non-tech-savvy family and friends when we're helping them with their computers and devices is this: > Experiment. Play. Learn. Teach yourself. You're not going to break it. This is even a lesson we teach to kids, when learning about almost

Ghost Beta Review

I've been using Ghost [http://ghost.org] as my blogging platform for a couple of weeks now, and I wanted to give it a brief review. It's important to note that it's still in a fairly early beta stage, so many features are absent and bugs are present. However, I

Setting up Wordpress URL Structures for Ghost

This is a pretty hacky solution, but since dynamic routing and custom URL structures are on the roadmap for Ghost, I just wanted a quick and dirty solution to getting my old WordPress links to work in my new Ghost blog. The permalink options for WordPress allow you to choose

GitHub Gist

As a blogger about software, I often want to actually post code in my blog posts. There are multiple ways to do this, and each one has it's merits. The things I wanted were: * Basic syntax highlighting * Easy to type and read the code in the editor * Easy to read