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Posts tagged "migration"

Rescuing your data from Goodreads

 In the previous post I mentioned that I wrote a script to extract the "started reading" dates from GR. Here it is, in case you need it....
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Ditching Goodreads, moving - not sure where

 Last month, when I'd been messing with my Goodreads (GR) export file, I realized something I should have noticed ages ago: the export does not contain "date started". That will not do....
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Leaving Evernote for Joplin

 I have been looking for an Evernote replacement for the longest time. It's a nice tool, but it has some features and limitations that irritated me: no markdown support (the HTML in the editor often got messy), no end-to-end encryption or control over my data, and a restrictive device limit and online-only requirement in the free version. While one could argue I could have paid to fix some of those problems, I didn't want to. The only restriction that really bothered me was the two-device limit....
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Running a git repo site on nginx on Ubuntu

 Last time around [https://zblesk.net/blog/ghost-learning-nginx-on-ubuntu/] I wrote about migrating my webs to an Ubuntu VM. One of the few things that were left to migrate was my private git repo hosting site. I'd used Bonobo Git Server [http://bonobogitserver.com/] and had always been satisfied with it. Since it doesn't target .Net Core, I didn't see any reasonable way to run it on Ubuntu. After some searching, I'd fortunately stumbled upon Gitea [https://gitea.io/]. To get it up and running f...
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Ghost: making me learn nginx on Ubuntu

 So the time finally came: Ghost 1.0 [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/1.0.0] is out. My setup is a little more complex than the vanilla one: on this site, there are two blogs next to one another: one here at /blog [https://zblesk.net/blog], and a separate one at /sk [https://zblesk.net/sk]. I also have other Ghost blogs in different places and domains. This post documents the stuff I had to learn, and what I ended up using, in case I need a refresher. For various reasons, I run th...
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