I wrote about Picking Ghost a year ago, but I’m now going back to a static site generator. For personal writing, I previously published a few posts on another domain back in 2013. I used Hugo back then, but much of it was poorly done (and I wasn’t able to regenerate that site since ~2015, so it just languished). Last year I tried Wordpress and Ghost, but went with Ghost. And now in 2022, I’m back to Hugo....
Ghost subtly told me I am holding it wrong. As I’ve been writing posts with Ghost, I have seen that it will do odd things with paragraph layout if I put two spaces after a period. This aligns with Microsoft Word and most of the publishing industry, which says you should only have one space after a period. Per Wikipedia: The desired or correct sentence spacing is often debated but some sources now claim an additional space is not necessary....
One of the eternal questions for someone starting a blog is what platform to use. Let’s go through that thought process. Self Hosted or Not Hosting on a third-party platform would get me up and writing faster, but as someone who has previously run my own Wordpress instance, I like self hosting. My 3 main reasons: I enjoy the tinkering. Playing with Linux systems to get them working efficiently helps me to learn....