Hard not to see that USA will hold onto their lead in the Ryder Cup. Can’t dispute it’s been great golf to watch though.
Apple family sharing, iTunes app and Music app. A combination of apps and preferences that results in a complete nightmare.
What a putt! #RyderCup
Still don't own a Raspberry Pi, but the benefits of having one are far outweighing the drawbacks now. Especially with this new look and feel for the Raspbian desktop.
I had no idea you could change the colour of task categories in @highrise.
Game of Thrones on iBooks
A Game of Thrones is now available on iBooks. A must buy!
Chasing bugs in my code due to my many different typos of the word ‘denomination’.
Curtis McHale on the placebo that continually changing your productivity tools offers and why it's best to stick with the basics.
For a time a new system feels great and we do get more done. But then the problems surface and the problem is how we use the productivity tools. A new productivity tool or strategy is almost always a placebo for your poor productivity habits. The only utility in these new tools is often that they let you think you’re doing better when the cruft hasn’t built up yet.
— Why you shouldn't change productivity systems by Curtis McHale
Gap in the Themes Market?
Over the last few weeks I've been looking at themes for Wordpress and Ghost.
Now it's easy to say that Wordpress has a clear advantage over Ghost. It's a CMS that's used by millions of people all over the world. Wordpress has been around since the early days of the Internet and it's still the goto CMS for many people and rightly so. It's extensible, stable and has thousands of themes available for it.
The Wordpress marketplace for themes is huge. There are thousands of themes available for all different types of sites. From minimal themes for bloggers to highly customisable themes for organisation sites. There's something for everyone.
Ghost is still relatively new when compared to Wordpress and while it is more specifically a blogging platform as opposed to a CMS like Wordpress, it's still gathering a steady number of fans.
The Ghost marketplace for themes isn't so big but that doesn't mean there should be a shortage of themes.
There are a number of themes available but there's two problems I see with most of the themes available for Ghost:
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Image heavy themes - It seems that most themes for Ghost see having images as a neccessity in their theme. While looking for a theme for my own blog I found it difficult to find a theme that didn't feature a full width banner and images for every post. Their themes probably do allow imageless posts but they never show that in their previews.
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Out of date themes - Ghost is on version 0.11 but many of themes available are falling behind in terms of compatibility.
It seems there's a gap in the market for Ghost themes that don't need images everywhere and stay compatible with the latest versions of Ghost.
The number of people using Ghost isn't in the same realms as Wordpress but I do find it much easier to use as a blogging platform. Ghost as a product is generating revenue and with an open source option available, there's definitely a growing number of people using it.
With the right marketing a designer/developer could do well with a number of themes that focus on minimal blogging rather than images.
New Daring release
I released a new version of the Ghost theme I use for this blog last night.
In an effort to kickstart the blogging habit again, I looked at my blog and ways that I think it could be improved in terms of readability.
Improved readability
The previous version of Daring had a default font size that was far too small. Even on my MacBook Pro at 1280px wide the font size difficult to read. I've bumped the default size up to help.
I've also made the width of the content area slightly wider and reduced the padding of the content area. I'm trying to use as much width as I can without pushing the sidebar column and the content column too close together.
More themed elements
I've also included a number of themed elements for the blog. The bar at the top is nothing more than a bit of decoration on the page and there is additional styling for submit buttons you might have on a contact form.
This is just another step towards producing a quality Ghost theme for people that don't want to use huge banners and images for their blogs.
After a week of considering closing this blog and starting afresh elsewhere I've decided against this move. I'm trying to kick-start the blogging habit for October and so this week is a spell of light blogging to get me started. Expect more frequent writing here from now on!