The Newer...
The NEW YEAR has brought a new sense of urgency to me to keep on target with organising things with attention to detail. It's something that one gets better at every time one does it I believe.
It's a result of reading part of Jordan Peterson's "12 Rules..." and "Goodbye, Things" by Fumio Sasaki amongst other things like the increasing clutter of almost two decades of collecting junk on my part.
As a result of earlier improvements I made to the home media and storage server both in hardware and software has signalled that it was time to get the journal back online with the newest version of Ghost which at time of writing is 2.9.1.
Having successfully finally made use of Docker in a real production environment, in the form of the excellent "Pi-Hole" ad-blocking DNS server which I have enhanced with the increased security of DNScrypt; I decided I might see whether my Ghost blogs could be implemented in Docker and lo and behold I found it was. Only thing was that I was significantly behind on 0.11.3 so it required a little bit of Docker learning, with two major version upgrades requiring incremental updates to the database through iterative export and import of site contents.
It also meant that all the internal DNS names have to be functioning and adjustments to HAproxy which helped immensely with getting things tidier. It allowed me to put SSL between WAN and my servers and keep things simpler and more efficient on the LAN. All of this was accompanied by much new learning.
So now it's all as current as I can get it and there's nothing that I can really see that I can do better, and there are no apparent bugs or issues so I am certain there will be something that I have overlooked...
I don't know if I will elaborate more with the other huge improvements I have been able to accomplish lately. It started with the re-installation of Windows 10 on a 4 year old game PC that I had purchased with the Home version. An upgrade to Pro went awry through no fault of mine - and Microsoft was unable to correct the problem either - so they gave me a totally unencumbered Windows 10 Pro key for no extra cost which allowed me to start with an absolutely clean slate. A failed drive which had been clicking away for months - resulting in bootup delays etc had meant my Ubuntu system I had used for crypto-mining had been down for months too. I made this all UEFI compliant and re-installed Fedora which I had had before (it is now replaced by Ubuntu 18.04 LTS); and doing it right has made me feel much better about it.
My Thinkpad X1 Carbon IVth gen had had ArchLinux on it because my original media server was built around Arch. The customisability of Arch had made me reach a point which had almost all the hardware working but with constant irritations of having to worry with each upgrade - and I had unbootable situations at points. I finally said goodbye to Arch and all my physical Linux machines are Ubuntu based and with the 3 years that has gone by with my Thinkpad it's at a point where virtually everything... just works. It even gave me a Lenovo system update through Linux (I still have a Windows 7 Pro install on this machine for work purposes).
So I am typing on my fresh install of Ubuntu on my old Thinkpad Carbon X1 4th gen. with Ghost Desktop, editing my first post of the New Year and with the new Ghost 2.9.2 software.
The mathematical image in the background is courtesy of Skytopia (Google it) and represents a 3D fractal surface which many more images of can be found at their website. The 3D surface is termed a Mandelbulb.