Nels Lindahl — Functional Journal

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Tag: Newsletter

  • Learning the Ghost platform

    All the cool kids have moved from Substack to Ghost these days. The thought of moving from one platform to another for my weekly email newsletter sounded tedious. It seemed like a good idea to go ahead and move my nelsx domain over to Ghost to get things setup in the event I wanted to make the big move. The custom domain process involved setting a CNAME record and an @ record with your host. After that you just have to click a big button within the Ghost admin screens to start the custom domain process. It was not a hard process to achieve. The waiting for the records to update as always was the hardest part of the whole process. It’s a pure mystery of how long it will take the internet to actually update a record. Seriously, the update process just takes however long it does which is generally under 24 hours, but certainly not instant. 

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  • A few basic Saturday notes

    Today started out with a bunch of time spent writing, “Substack Week 63: Sentiment and consensus analysis.”

    Yesterday the Substack platform did not send out my newsletter via email at 5:00 PM Denver time. I had to go in and manually trigger the event. I have never had to do that before and I’m not entirely sure what happened. I’ll wait till this Friday March 18, 2022 and see if the same thing happens again. 

    My Linus Tech Tips branded cable ties arrived. I now have 50 cable ties in my possession to help clean up my cabling. 

    A desk drawer got installed. It’s a, “Slim Under Desk Storage Drawer by UPLIFT Desk.” So far it is working well enough to remove some desk clutter, but it is not very deep in terms of depth within the drawer. Installation took two people as the drawer is oddly heavy and awkward to install. If you could turn the top of the desk upside down, then it would be possible to install for a single person. You might also be able to do it with some clamps or something, but it probably is going to take two people to make this type of magic happen. 

    …and I’m back to blogging on a regular basis.