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A New Collection of Thoughtful Learning Apps — Now Available on iOS & Android

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I’m excited to share a set of mobile apps I’ve recently completed and published on both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. These apps are designed with a simple goal in mind: to make meaningful, structured content more accessible, whether you’re studying theology or improving your English vocabulary. 📱 Now Available on Both Platforms All apps are live and available for download: Google Play Developer Page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=5835943159853189043 Apple App Store Developer Page: https://apps.apple.com/ca/developer/q-z-l-corp/id1888794100 📖 Theology & Confession Study Apps For those interested in Reformed theology and classical Christian teachings, I’ve developed a series of apps that present foundational texts in a clean, focused reading format: The Belgic Confession Canons of Dort Heidelberg Catechism Westminster Shorter Catechism Each app is designed to provide a distraction-free experience, making it easier to read, reflect, and revisit these im...

How to custom storage adapters to make your self-hosted Ghost instance filesystem completely external?

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I set up my self-hosted Ghost on a free Google Compute Engine( a E2 micro GCP VM instance ) several years ago. The free disk after running a Ghost on the vm is only about 6G left, while Ghost uses local file storage by default In order to save the free space, I would like to seek a way to save images into external storage. The above code section is based on this  Ghost source commit . After dive deep into Ghost open source , you can change the above /images/upload implementation and save the file to any external storages such as AWS s3. Or you can follow this official config guide:  https://ghost.org/docs/config/#creating-a-custom-storage-adapter You can refer to this widely tested AWS s3 adapter . My custom idea: try to use Oracle free 40G database to save images I always like free storage. Oracle JSON database can give you 2 instances, 20G each. In a word, Oracle give you 40G free database storage. I am thinking custom the upload endpoint's implementation and save the image...