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25th Anniversary of cerkit.com

2020 marks the 25th anniversary of my website cerkit.com. It's been a great asset and a personal liability (there were a few weeks where I posted inappropriate things to my blog that

  • Michael Earls
    Michael Earls
2 min read
Blog

Comments are back

I fixed the comments system on the blog tonight. I use Disqus for comments and I had not yet modified the new Ghost Casper theme to include them. I love using this theme,

  • Michael Earls
    Michael Earls
1 min read
Programming

Using Prism Syntax Highlighting instead of Google Prettify

In a previous post, I discussed how to add code formatting (syntax highlighting) to your Ghost blog. Since then, I've decided to switch to using Prism syntax highlighter. Prism uses more standards-compliant mechanisms

  • Michael Earls
    Michael Earls
1 min read
Programming

Am I abusing Ghost?

I have been working steadily on creating my new Ghost blog to be exactly what I want. However, I have found myself dipping into JavaScript to sew up the loose ends that I

  • Michael Earls
    Michael Earls
1 min read
Blog

Creating a Bootstrap Theme Selector for your Site

I have recently converted my Ghost blog to use Bootstrap. As part of that, I decided to add a little toy to the sidebar that would allow users to change the Bootstrap theme

  • Michael Earls
    Michael Earls
5 min read
Blog

Differences in page load times with using Ghost instead of WordPress

I just ran a quick test of a page running on WordPress with the same page running on Ghost. Here is the result: On WordPress, the page took 13.2 seconds to load

  • Michael Earls
    Michael Earls
1 min read
Blog

New Blog

Goodbye, WordPress! After much internal mental debate, I have decided to restart my blog from scratch. The blog has been powered by WordPress for a very long time (since I converted it from

  • Michael Earls
    Michael Earls
2 min read
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