Ghost

John O’Nolan:

Ghost is an Open Source application which allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even (gasp) fun to do. It’s simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time messing with making your blog work - and more time blogging.

I’ve been blogging thanks to Jekyll for two years now, and although I’ve developed a fair set of tools to help me get my thoughts out there on the web, it’s convoluted and messy. Sometimes, I just wish I had something easy to use, yet lightweight.

Jekyll is insanely light — the whole of geekeries would fit on a 3-1/2-inch floppy disk — but requires an extremely complex publishing workflow. Inserting an image in a post is a major pain in the ass, and that’s part of the reason why I don’t post images here.

I’m not too fond of the idea to have to use NodeJS for this, but let’s see where that project goes. Seems promising for now.