About

I'm Ryan, and I started this blog in 2011 to write about whatever came to mind, but soon focused on the objectives I achieved and challenges I solved surrounding technology and web development, about games I played, and recently parenting.

I'm a long-time WordPress developer, so it was natural that my website was powered by WordPress. But as WordPress evolved to become the flexible content management system it is today, I was interested in a simpler platform designed for publishing: enter Ghost.

In September 2022 I started migrating my content from WordPress to Ghost. You'd think being a software engineer I would automate this by using a migration tool or writing an import script, but I didn't.

It felt wrong to blindly bring over markup from WordPress that had no place in Ghost, so I manually copied and pasted every post and comment. This gave me an opportunity to format headers, paragraphs, code blocks, and quotes to fit Ghost.

My hope is that people stumble across this blog while trying to solve a problem or accomplish something I wrote about, perhaps find more posts that pique their interest, and eventually subscribe to stay in touch.

As you go about your journey, I leave you with this: In the pursuit of making our future simpler, we tend to unnecessarily overcomplicate the present. Focus on writing code that's functional, easy to understand, and efficient.

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You can find me on GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Stay happy and healthy.

Featured homepage image by Alexander Jawfox.