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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m on Zen browser now and really liking it 🤗

John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Some major bugs with MacOS 27 <> Arc Browser 😑 windows seems to just constantly resize at random Wonder if this will even get fixed or if it will finally be the thing that forces me to switch to something else

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yeah! Send me a markdown file in the same style/structure as our other integrations pages and I'll see what I can do - john@ghost.org

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

All good! We only added it in the last ~month or so fwiw, so you might only have missed it cause it wasn't there before 😅

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

just to check - you're using this setting, right? for some reason it's not working on my machine, but some of the team tested and it appears to be working for everyone else

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

we have this, but looks like it's got a bug - thanks for mentioning, will fix

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Just found my first sketches from 2017(!) imagining what Ghost might look like with memberships built in This was several years before anything like it existed in the publishing world We were only a team of ~7 people at the time, so it took us a while to get there, but the idea was the right one

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What basket are you under the impression that this MIT licensed software is in?

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

In Amsterdam for PublicSpaces conf ✌️ say hi if you’re around

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

If it’s been 5 years without any reason for you to notice, doesn’t that point to Vercel being pretty good stewards of the project?

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Messing with a floating Ghost admin toolbar that sits at the bottom of your screen if you're signed in as a staff user, for quick access to edit any post/page

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

what's the main thing you'd want to use it for?

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

what's the main thing you'd want to use it for?

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

thought you might say that! 😅

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

experimenting with a media library for @ghost.org (WIP)

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

On this day, 13y ago, @ghost.org started as an idea on kickstarter 5,000+ people backed the project to help bring it to life and support the future of media and journalism Today, Ghost has generated over $150M for independent publishers all over the world www.kickstarter.com/projects/joh...

kickstarter.com

Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

An open source blogging platform which makes writing pleasurable and publishing simple.

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Lots of publishing platforms claim to be independent and open. Ghost actually is. 🪷

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In SF for Stripe Sessions again this year - say hi if you’re around!

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This would be semantically correct, but in my experience people don't actually care what's semantically correct - they only care what shows up in page analysis reports, which is "no alt text is bad"

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Experimenting with some AI-assisted features in @Ghost for helping with generated structured data and site administration Kinda fun. Not sure what the UI should be. Don't really want to have to click a button, would be even better if it just happened in the background

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Ghost @ghost.org · 26/03/2026

🚀 NEW: Podcasting is one of the most popular ways publishers share their work — and now you can run members-only podcasts on Ghost, with our brand new @transistor.fm integration Quality writing 🤝 Quality audio ghost.org/changelog/tr...

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Only realised after posting: Time from $9M→$10M ARR was 14 weeks Which is especially wild when you consider the first $1M ARR took 5 years 😅

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Amazing. Thanks for being there from the very start <3 quite literally wouldn't be here without you

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Btw - we're hiring! Fully remote team, looking for AI-pilled ambitious people who love open source. - Product manager - Staff product engineer - Engineering manager - Senior platform engineer careers.ghost.org

careers.ghost.org

Ghost

We're hiring! Ghost is a proud non-profit organisation building open source technology for fiercely independent, professional publishers.

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The world of technology is shifting rapidly, and so is the world of media, creators and journalism. It's hard to keep up with, and even harder to predict. My strong belief, though, is that open software you own and control is going to be even more important in the future than it is now.

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Today @ghost.org crossed $10M ARR, as a bootstrapped non-profit foundation building open source software. Indie publisher revenue earned with Ghost now ~$130M, and accelerating.

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Flowian @flowian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We've all heard "SaaS is dead" enough times. Recently I read multiple people developing something more specific: Nicolas Bustamante from the software side, Ben Thompson from the hardware side, @johnonolan.bsky.social about open source. Different starting points. Same direction.

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

it was pretty wild - even wilder that they later tried to play it off as "misunderstanding"

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This week Cloudflare shamelessly cloned and released the product of one of their primary competitors. I'm beginning to wonder - if AI can rewrite software from scratch, without using any of the original code, do software licenses actually mean anything anymore? john.onolan.org/open-source-...

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Goin' live with the Laravel team here in a couple mins 🔊 $PHP

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

would love to see video about this :)

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I've seen some of what Aaron's working on here, and it's so far ahead of anything I've managed to figure out for myself. (I told him to price this 10x higher but he refused listen to me, so it's your lucky day.)

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

it's so much calmer 🧘‍♂️

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

one thing I didn't expect while building alcove.news is the unbridled joy of removing newsletters from my email inbox feels *so* much better having communication/reading in two different places (you can follow @alcove.blog.alcove.news.ap.brid.gy if you want updates on progress)

alcove.news

Alcove - A peaceful RSS Reader

A quiet place to see what's new

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

so far they're claiming nothing has changed and it's all imaginary

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Back on GPT 5.2 Max fulltime now, Claude 4.5 has been nerfed so hard it's actually unusable this week

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

because it's what I feel like using - you don't have to use it if you don't want to

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Ghost @ghost.org · 28/11/2025

Our first billboard! Live from Stripe City bfcm.stripe.com

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

it's an open source platform, used by people on the open web, built on top of open standards -- if you think that's "platform lock in" then I don't know what to tell you our job is to promote Ghost, if you want to make an agnostic directory for indie websites on the internet, you should!

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Is this being recorded? Would love to see

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

If you're curious about the build of Ghost Explore — and some of the details of my ... *checks notes* ... 1,256 commits on this project over the past few months The @laravelphp.bsky.social team just published a nice lil piece about Ghost + Laravel Cloud: laravel.com/blog/14m-req...

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Stoked to share some of the details behind a project I've been working on for a long time, in partnership with @ahrefs.bsky.social — and built on top of @laravelphp.bsky.social Spent YEARS wanting this to exist, so I finally just built it.

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

you open a link in [some app] - it loads an in-app browser, you login, receive magic link - that link can't be opened in the in-app browser, so you can't sign in there other: PWA doesn't work (same reason) other: people have a locked down device for work, can only receive email on other device

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John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I recommend including both a code and a login link right from the start - you will discover (as we did) many edge issues with login links, particularly on mobile / in-app browsers

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