bretfisher / ghost-edition

The newsletter theme for Ghost

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🧑‍🏫 My course repositories

• All my Udemy course coupon codes: bretfisher.com/courses
• Automate Your Kubernetes Deployments with GitHub Actions and Argo GitOps
• Docker Mastery (with Kubernetes, Swarm, Compose, and more)
• Kubernetes Mastery (go deeper in K8s)
• Docker for Node.js (learn advanced ways to use local Docker with Node.js projects)
• Swarm Mastery (learn more about Docker's built-in orchestrator)
• More DevOps courses coming!

My examples and templates (New stuff on top)

• Awesome Swarm - A list of resources, tools, and learning on Docker/Mirantis Swarm (SwarmKit)
• Kubernetes initContainer Examples and Good Defaults - Learn Kubernetes Init Containers by example, and when to not use them.
• Kubernetes Pod Specification (podspec) Good Defaults - Good Defaults for the most common Kubernetes workloads. Adds security and uptime (optional) features.
• Node.js Rocks in Docker - Video and examples of multi-stage docker builds, k8s healthcheck probes, etc.
• GitHub Actions for Docker: examples and video walkthrough - Video and examples of GitHub Actions for advanced docker builds, automated testing, and CVE scanning.
• GitHub Actions DevOps Templates - reusable GitHub Actions templates for DevOps stuff (linting, docker builds, CVE scanning, etc.)
• Docker Build GitHub Action Template - My custom GitHub Actions workflow using Docker's official build-and-push Actions.
• Super Linter GitHub Action Template - My custom all-in-one linter workflow. I lint all my repositories, and I recommend you do to.
• Node.js Docker Good Defaults - A sample Node.js project that uses Docker.
• Docker Compose local TLS for devs - A sample Compose file that uses a Traefik proxy for TLS, and optionally, Let's Encrypt.
• Docker Build Multi-platform Readme - Explains some ways to build Docker images for multiple platforms in a single Dockerfile.
• Voting App Docker Example - My favorite multi-container example app that I often use to for learning Docker, K8s, CI/CD, and GitOps.
• PHP Docker Good Defaults (outdated) - A sample PHP project that uses Docker.
• Java Docker Petclinic Example - A sample Java project that uses Docker.
• dogvscat Using the voting app in Docker Swarm to explain orchestration, proxies, secrets, and networking.

My tools (often used for learning Containers, Kubernetes, and Docker)

• shpod - Common Kubernetes tools in a single pod.
• httping - Ping with HTTP. Fantastic for testing zero-downtime rolling updates.
• jekyll - Jekyll in a container.
• vackup - Docker Volume backup and restore.
• browncoat - A utility container for simulating failures like slow startup, failing healthchecks, etc.

ghost-edition's Issues

Link to all courses next to "featured courses" header on home page

Assuming #12 is finished first, the homepage would then have three sections that list content:

"featured courses" = only shows pages with course tag and featured:true.
"featured articles" = only shows posts with featured:true.
"latest articles" = only shows posts with featured:false.

Each of those has limits on how many pages/posts they show. We'd like each to have a link next to each title for viewing all results on its own page.

• add a link next to "featured courses" header that goes to /courses/ (page already exists)
• add a link next to "featured articles" header that goes to a /featured/ page, similar to how tag.hbs does it.
• add a link next to "latest articles" header that goes to a /blog/ page that lists all posts, similar to how tag.hbs does it.
• add /featured/ and /blog/ templates (I'm not sure of the best way to do this) so they list posts. Ideally, they show in Expanded feed_layout like the current homepage is set to, where we see the featured image for each post on the left. They should also likely have some large header text like "Featured Articles" and "All Blog Articles"

revue email sync? (newsletter isn't currently active)

fix email subscription sync with revue (do i just re-turn on members?)

remove blog post dates from homepage

Finish Docker Mastery course page

https://www.bretfisher.com/docker-mastery/ is only partially filled. Needs more verbiage and testimonials.

Install videos don't work in post

https://www.bretfisher.com/installdocker/

I believe these embedded videos were hosted by udemy's tech channel. They must have been pulled.

Do we want blog posts for YTL, Podcast, clips?

we already have Descript transcriptions for clips. Do we make each a blog article with captioning?

Add Featured articles below index's Featured courses

The current home page shows a list of all posts sorted by date under "latest articles". I'd like to have Featured posts above that, basically a copy-paste of the "featured courses" pages.

• Rename featured.hbs to featured-courses.hbs and change default.hbs to match
• Update package.json to have toggles for "featured courses, featured posts", and add a title box. Ideally we want to control all three titles and which featured div's are shown via the theme settings. (I know I didn't update package.json when I updated featured.hbs to only show course pages, so if you could edit that in package.json as well, that would be great)
• Copy featured-courses.hbs to featured-posts.hbs, change partial to posts not pages and no tag filter, and change default.hbs to display it below featured-courses partial (screen shot below)
• Somehow change the post list to not show featured posts, since they are already shown above.

consider Fathom for analytics

consider new analytics https://usefathom.com/

Create dark-mode theme colors

Take from the Casper theme or similar: https://github.com/TryGhost/Casper/search?q=dark

• Add html+css to support dark colors.
• add auto-switching based on client's host setting
• Add toggle button to top navigation to right of the social icons and make it unique so they know it's for theme colors
• Add the package.json object like Casper above so the theme provides the default setting in admin UI

Add old-style footer to site

the current footer.hbs of the edition theme is too minimal. We would like a more expanded footer that we can add links over time, similar to ghost.org footer or docker.com footer.

Colors can stay the same as page.

For now, assume three vertical lists with these titles and links. Responsiveness would have these 3 vertical lists consolidate to one vertical on mobile. Since Ghost secondary nav won't help with multiple lists, let's avoid secondary nav and just hardcode these in the partial template (unless you know of a better way).

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Inspiration:

Add 3 udemy blog articles to site

date them a day after udemy release (2021).

figure out how to attribute the original article location

Add clickable tag list

Either on / or in footer, iterate through post tags, making blog topics more discoverable for those browsing the site.