Testing Out My Custom Blogging Setup
I am testing out custom platforms that can help me share my thoughts on the go. After spending hours on building something new, I am returning back to Ghost.
Recently, I am looking for the simplest way to share my thoughts with the world. Something that's pretty barebones, easy to manage, no ownership drama, and completely under my control.
I thought of many options like WordPress (it has the owner drama going on), GhostCMS (which is actually the one I use now), even tried with a simple markdown blog.
While the markdown based blog is worked perfectly fine for me, it was pretty barebones. While it was very simple to maintain the only challenge was, I need to have access to GitHub to host the markdown files. Plus, it was pretty manual for me.
Hence, I decided to turn the markdown based blog into a database connected blogging platform, where I can freely share what is in my mind.
But the point is, is it worth spending time reinventing the wheel? I could have done other things which might have added more value.
I already have a lifetime GhostCMS (MagicPages managed instance), I know this is not truly lifetime and only valid until the business is there, but this service is something I can truly trust.
So I have decided, I am going to focus more on sharing my thoughts instead of building new platforms, and focus sharing my thoughts on the Ghost blog.