A fractal spectrum of tales

Deploying Anchor CMS on OpenShift Some of you may already know that installing ghost on OpenShift is extremely easy (and free). You can check this post if you don’t believe me. I was wandering how is it with other small and less known CMS. Given that I was already making some local tests with [Anchor CMS](https://anchorcms.com" _target=“blank) for a friend, and given that there is almost nothing around about its deployment on Open Shift I decided to give it a try and write about it.
8 min read - Nov 8, 2013
The beauty of mathematics After having watched this video I hope you will agree with Bertrand Russell: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." — Bertrand Russell And this is just a scratch of the surface of the mysterious wonderful world that is hiding behind those fascinating symbols. A video by Yann Pineill & Nicolas Lefaucheux.
1 min read - Nov 5, 2013
A great workaround for targeting links in Ghost When I am reading something, I hate to click on some link (that I will supposedly read later) and be redirected to the new page. I’d rather prefer the links to open in background in a new tab. You may say that it is enough to click while pressing Command or Control and the page will be opened in a background tab, but it’s not the same. What if I accidentally click for example?
2 min read - Oct 29, 2013
Git workflow for lazy mathematicians This post is pretty old, You can refer to my new post here for a more modern version. First of all, what is git? Citing its website Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. [It] is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. In other words Git provides a source control repository that enables you to roll back code changes as needed, to merge the updates when collaborating with others and eventually to have an online backup of your work.
11 min read - Oct 21, 2013
Update script explained I am going to proceed step by step through the code of the script that I have posted few days ago. I purposedly updated the script to be a bit more general and flexible (but not too much). At the end of the file I explain how to run it. You should make a backup before doing the update (the simplest way is probably running tar czf backup.tar.gz YOUR_GHOST_FOLDER). Be careful that there is no warranty with this script and I will not take any responsibility for claims or damages consequent to the use of it.
4 min read - Oct 21, 2013
A simple script to update ghost You can update your ghost engine in many different ways, two for all by hand or by using git. I am personally using a very basic bash script. If you need a semiauthomatic way to run the update, you can just copy/download it from gist and adapt to your needs. I think it is simple enough to require no explanation.
1 min read - Oct 19, 2013
nginx, ghost 0.3.3 and modsecurity In my previous post, Ghost on Amazon EC2 without using sudo, I was proposing some way of running ghost without having to use sudo and with at least a minimal eye on security. If you have followed one of the guides that I suggested, namely Dude Looks Like a Ghost, or you have installed your own modsecurity configuration you should have received a big page announcing an Error 403 right after the update of your ghost to version 0.
2 min read - Oct 18, 2013
ghiOStSeven Here we go. On github is finally available a new responsive ghost theme inspired by iOS7 look. It is still a very preliminary version, a cleaning of the stylesheet and some additional tweaks are in progress. In the next few days I will add a style for forms elements to look like they do in iOS7 and the social/rss icons on the boottom bar, aligned right. In the meanwhile you can play with it (and may be pull some update for merging) going to github.
1 min read - Oct 10, 2013
Save your battery life Yesterday, by pure chance, I ended up reading an interview with a Li-Ion battery specialist. I was quite impressed (and scared) to hear that continuous full charge/discharege of the battery will ruin their life, and that is a best practice to plug it before it goes under 20% of the charge and unplug it when it reaches 80% charge. I wanted to post a link to that source but in some way I cannot find it anymore.
3 min read - Sep 29, 2013
Ghost on Amazon EC2 without using sudo I’ve been thinking since yesterday’s post how to run the ghost blog at the user level, wihout the need of using sudo. # Use Nginx In a production environment I would probably run ghos as a nginx subdomain (i.e. ghost.mseri.me), eventually forwarding the domain to the same address (e.g. typing mseri.me you would end up automatically in ghost.mseri.me). For this purpose you either know by hearth how to do it, or you can follow one of the many tutorial available online.
4 min read - Sep 24, 2013