Haven't touched this blog in a while. Completely forgot about it, and also have been busy in the interim as well.
Jotting some quick thoughts now in this recap post so I can refer back to it when I'm less busy during summer.
Ghost
This blog is still running on Ghost. Works incredibly well, very speedy and love the editor interface.
Was incredibly disappointed when they said that the Ghost dashboard wasn't going to make it into the final release. The universal dashboard that was part of the original Kickstarter vision was one feature that really swayed me over from Wordpress.
Thought about moving back to Wordpress (It looks like it's become better. Security still an issue, but the product itself has improved. The admin interface is now written in JS (Supported by libraries like Node and React), which should really speed things up), but it never happened. Mainly because I stopped blogging, and got preoccupied with other things.
Had a look again at Ghost's FAQ and it looks like they haven't shelved the Dashboard idea entirely. Good news. Can't seem to find it on their Trello, but their Github wiki seems to suggest that it'll feature as part of the 'Ghost Apps' platform.
Workflow
I've always enjoyed building and crafting a specific workflow to increase productivity. One recent addition to my workflow has been Scrivener.
Definitely want to write a post about that, detailing what makes it so compelling over competing products like Pages and OmniOutliner 4.
Coding
Going to shelve this link (http://ddi-dev.com/blog/programming/django-framework-startups/) here.
Still looking to code in the long-term, and create something (Have quite a lot of ideas that I want to work on and try out. Created a new document in Scrivener.).
Haven't specifically decided which platform that I want to try to start developing for (Nor the particular language.).
The introduction of Swift was gamechanging, since it (from a layperson's perspective) seems to radically change the way in how programming works. One disadvantage of it however, is that it's continually developing. I suppose that's normal for most programming languages. But on the other hand, considering the rate at which Apple creates (and subsequently obsoletes things.), it perhaps is a wise idea to wait for the language to stabilise before learning1.
1. I would definitely not be surprised if the next major iteration of (Mac) OS X to be written completely in Swift, transitioning from OS X to OS XI (Or cOS for 'computer OS', or a return back to macOS.) The transition from Mac OS to Mac OS X was said to be a 'revolution' in the technological fundamentals of the operating system. The complete rewriting of the OS in Swift, plus the ability to run on both Intel and ARM CPUs would definitely constitute as a 'revolution' in the foundation of the software. Oh, and also a shift from HFS Plus to a ZFS-like filesystem (RAM and CPU usage should no longer be an issue, in an era of 8GB RAM as standard.).↩