Short story #1 in The Dragon Imperium. — The first thing Emerson Brooke noticed when he got off the train with his bag was a giant black tower in the distance. The second thing he noticed was the hurry everyone seemed to be in this place: Scaleheart, the capital of the Dragon Imperium. “Excuse me?” Emerson called out…

Don’t develop expectations — develop connections. — Like any other business out there, Medium is trying to make a profit. And sometimes that means making decisions that we the people don’t see the logic behind — but there’s always a logic. Many spreadsheets might back it up, or a board of directors vote might back it up…

In this guide, I’ll show you how to install Hyvor Talk on your Ghost Blog, but you can replace that with any comment plugin you like. — Until Ghost implements native comments like WordPress that ship out of the box, you’ll need to add them manually. Some themes arrive with the code for a specific comments plugin already included, and you need to add your API Key or whatever means to make it unique to your site.

This article shows you how to use a public fork from Casper without exposing your private information to deploy your version of Casper to your blog with a comments plugin. — Before I discovered GitHub Actions, I created many zip files on my computer, including my comment plugins and such. Now that I’m using GitHub actions, I have forked Casper — Ghost’s default theme and made the changes there, too.

Welcome to Oren Codes — my blog about programming and all things software engineering. — This month, I’m marking 4.5 years of actively developing software. By mid-2018, I managed to complete an actual Computer Science degree, and start developing backends and microservices in Python. That’s a lot of fun! My problem was that something in my mind always wanted to make a complete separation between…

This guide does not encourage you to delete your tweets! — So, let’s say you published a post and didn’t correctly set up your featured image for Twitter. But you only discover it after you’ve published the post and instead of seeing your beautiful picture, you see a dull preview with only your title and subtitle. How do you fix this…

Let’s talk about that video that Sanderson dropped on his youtube channel and what it all means for us. — So, Brandon Sanderson just released a new video on YouTube and dropped the ultimate bomb. Here it is: So, what do you think about it? So, now that are past the danger zone of ruining the surprise, I gotta admit to you something: FIVE EXTRA FREAKING…

Day #8 of the Annual Writing Challenge. — In 2019, Brandon Sanderson visited Israel. By then, I was wholly obsessed with his book series — Stormlight Archive — and brought the three books I had for signing. I didn’t have much time while he was signing my books, but I did tell him about my friend who got…

Day #7 of the Annual Writing Prompt. — Yes, yes — I know eating in front of screens is unhealthy. But we all do it in some way, so let’s get past that and talk about the food itself, shall we? BTW, if you’re vegan or vegetarian, I’m sorry — you can move on from this post now. …