Return of the King (of procrastination)

I have to credit Ghost for getting me to start posting again, after over a year of no updates. My PikaPod Ghost instance was upgraded to version 6 and I guess that broke login for Ghost admin.

Actually I did want to post something, but it was the fact that login wouldn't work that made me take action. Eventually. That was a few weeks ago. Apparently it needs a mail service configured to get it working. I just loathe doing ops-type stuff and SMTP is probably the worst of it. Mailgun was recommended. For my use case it would be free so I set everything up, but after 3.5 days, it couldn't verify my DNS settings for some reason.

I almost gave up and checked out Astro again, but decided to give another provider a shot. AWS SES. I proceeded to set up a new account but lo my email was already registered. I had completely forgotten I signed up almost 20 years ago when it was just S3. I don't even remember what I used it for. Probably offsite backups?

Anyways, after some setup my DNS changes were almost immediately picked up and Ghost was happy. So that kick-started a thing and I also started to put some of my unused domains to use. I'll link here when they're ready, but I'm doing the modern web dev thing and going serverless. Netlify with CI/CD from Github.