About Michael Earls

Michael Earls

Michael Earls has been programming computers since 1982, when his parents bought him his first home computer - the TI-99/4A. He enjoys writing music and playing video games in his spare time.

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Why modular synthesis is like programming

I am a professional software developer. Most of my spare time is spent writing code for side projects. When I'm not writing code or hanging out with my wife, I'm creating music. I'm just a music hobbyist, so my toolbox…

Michael Earls 24 June 2016

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Getting filler text from the Lipsum.com REST API

I had the need to generate some random filler text for a bunch of records today, and I wanted to use the Lorem Ipsum latin text. Normally, I use the great website Lipsum.com and fill out the form and…

Michael Earls 24 March 2016

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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 for marking up code. Specifically, it uses…

Michael Earls 12 February 2016

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Standardizing Ghost Client Development

While Ghost is a great blogging platform, developers of custom themes may find themselves reinventing some common blog functionality (Google analytics, blog comments, etc.) Each developer has most likely come up with their own way to implement each of these…

Michael Earls 09 February 2016

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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 perceive with Ghost's built-in functionality. Too much…

Michael Earls 08 February 2016

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Another approach to adding icons to dynamically generated links

In my previous post, I outlined the code necessary to add icons to navigation links. I have since updated my implementation to use a function to add the link-to-icon mapping. I have refactored my theme code to use the new…

Michael Earls 06 February 2016

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Dynamically adding icons to a Bootstrap nav menu in Ghost

Update: I have written another post about an alternate approach to defining the link-to-icon mapping. Note: I wrote this post to describe how I added icons to my Ghost navbar, but this process can work with any website that uses…

Michael Earls 05 February 2016

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Integrating Bootstrap Pagination with Ghost

In my previous post, I discussed how to integrate Bootstrap into the default Ghost theme. This post will cover the way that I modified pagination to use Bootstrap's pagination control. To start, you will need to create a new pagination.…

Michael Earls 28 January 2016

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About Michael Earls

Michael Earls

Michael Earls has been programming computers since 1982, when his parents bought him his first home computer - the TI-99/4A. He enjoys writing music and playing video games in his spare time.

My musical creations

Alternate Theme